Chilean authorities revealed a plan to combat drug and contraband trafficking by strengthening defenses along the countrys coastline and along the borders with Bolivia, Peru and Argentina.
In the one of the first acts of cooperation since Chile and Bolivia had a spat over the arrest of Bolivia's former top drug czar, the two countries collaborated in…
Chile's police seized 137 kilos of Bolivian-produced base, a product refined to make cocaine, from a gang in the city of Rancagua, close to Santiago.
Four Mapuche activists have ended an 86-day hunger strike against the Chilean government's use of an anti-terrorism law against them.
A Chilean judge found eighteen members of a drug trafficking group known as "Los Gaete" guilty of various crimes, La Tercera in Chile reports. The 18 members were…
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