Tension between neighbors Chile and Peru remains high after a Peruvian general said that Chileans in Peru would leave the country in coffins or body bags. A video of the general making the remarks was posted to YouTube earlier this year.

Chilean health officials are being criticized for failing to notify 2,000 patients that they are HIV positive.

After years of repression, Chilean teenagers are exploring their sexuality at massive after-school make-out parties. Also, there’s a slideshow.

Peru and Chile are beefing over the origin of potatoes. Last week, Chilean agriculture minister Marigen Hornkohl proclaimed: "Few people know that 99 percent of the world's potatoes have some type of genetic link to potatoes from Chile." Peruvian Foreign Minister José Antonio García Belaúnde responded: "Obviously, the world has known for centuries that the potato is from Peru and that the Peruvian potato saved Europe from hunger." Charles Crissman of the International Potato Center: [T]he first potatoes came from what is today Peru." (via FP Passport)

A judge in Chile has ordered the arrest of 100 former soldiers and secret police over human rights abuses committed during General Augusto Pinochet's reign.

In an attempt to show that Chile has a "poor level of data protection," a hacker leaked the addresses, ID card numbers and telephone numbers of an estimated six million Chileans over the Internet.

Violence against emo kids has popped up in Chile, Peru and Colombia. Previously: México.

Chilean teens who call themselves Pokemones are engaging in public orgies called "ponceo." Nineteen-year old Raúl Barra: "It's basically a fashion thing."

Bolivia, Brazil and Chile will pool $600 million to build a highway that runs from Brazil to Chile, linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of South America.

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake hit Chile yesterday, leaving hundreds of people injured and two dead.