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Argentina's Lionel Messi celebrates scoring his side's opening goal on a penalty kick during a qualifying soccer match against Chile for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 in Santiago del Estero, Argentina, Thursday, June 3, 2021. (Juan Mabromata, Pool via AP)
Chile vs Argentina 6/3/2021

Jun. 03, 2021 11:46 PM EDT

Argentina's Lionel Messi wears a jersey with the number and image of late soccer star Diego Maradona prior to a FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 qualifying soccer match against Chile in Santiago del Estero, Argentina, Thursday, June 3, 2021. (Juan Mabromata, Pool via AP)
Argentina draws after 7-month halt of World Cup qualifiers

Debora Rey Jun. 03, 2021 11:43 PM EDT

Social distancing and wearing protective face masks amid the new coronavirus pandemic, people wait to receive their second dose of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine at the Carmela Carvajal public school in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, March 3, 2021. With more than 24% of its people having received at least one shot, the country of 19 million people on South America's Pacific coast is the champion of Latin America in vaccinating its population. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Chile becomes Latin America's COVID-19 vaccination champion

By Eva Vergara And Patricia Luna Mar. 14, 2021 08:53 AM EDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, file photo, an elderly man looks at his vaccination card after getting a shot of the CoronaVac vaccine for COVID-19 developed by China's biopharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech, at a clinic in Santiago, Chile. It wasn’t until Sinovac swooped in with 4 million doses in late January that Chile began inoculating its population of 19 million with impressive speed. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File)
Chinese vaccines sweep much of the world, despite concerns

By Huizhong Wu And Kristen Gelineau Mar. 02, 2021 12:01 AM EST

Healthcare workers push hospital beds outside the San Borja Arriaran hospital in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021, where a fire broke out in a boiler room. The fire forced the evacuation of more than 300 patients from the downtown hospital in Chile's capital on Saturday, but officials reported no injuries. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Chile hospital fire forces evacuation of hundreds

Jan. 30, 2021 09:53 AM EST

Players of Argentina's Defensa y Justicia celebrate at the end of a Copa Sudamericana quarterfinal second leg soccer match at Norberto Tomaghello stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. Defensa y Justicia won 4-2 on aggregate and advances for the semifinals. (Juan Mabromata/Pool via AP)
Copa Sudamericana semifinal postponed due to COVID-19 risks

Jan. 07, 2021 07:03 PM EST

Viewers wear special glasses to watch a total solar eclipse in Piedra del Aguila, Argentina, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. The total solar eclipse was visible from the northern Patagonia region of Argentina and from Araucania in Chile, and as a partial eclipse from the lower two-thirds of South America. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Daytime darkness: Total solar eclipse wows in Latin America

By Esteban Felix And Eva Vergara Dec. 14, 2020 03:04 PM EST

An anti-government protester runs from police water cannons, on the day Chileans vote in a referendum to decide whether the country should replace its 40-year-old constitution, written during the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, in Santiago, Chile, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
Eager for change, Chile faces long road to new constitution

By Eva Vergara And Christopher Torchia Oct. 27, 2020 05:20 PM EDT

Chile's President Sebastian Pinera, center, speaks at La Moneda presidential palace on the day Chileans voted in a referendum to decide whether the country should replace its 40-year-old constitution, written during the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, in Santiago, Chile, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020. (Dragomir Yankovic/Aton Chile via AP)
2/3rds of Chilean voters back rewriting their constitution

By Eva Vergara Oct. 25, 2020 12:00 AM EDT

A group who have been stranded in Tahiti, pictured from left, Benjamin Baude, Kissy Ika Chavez Baude, Gaïa Baude Ika and Thierry Gourtay in Afareaitu on Moorea Island, Tahiti, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020. A group of 25 residents from remote Easter Island has been stranded far from home for six months now. Many arrived in March planning to stay for just a few weeks. But they got stuck when the virus swept across the globe and their flights back home on LATAM airlines were canceled. LATAM says it doesn't know when it will restart the route.(Teraihau Rio via AP)
Canceled flights strand 25 Easter Islanders for 6 months

By Nick Perry And Eva Vergara Sep. 25, 2020 02:30 AM EDT

Jose Collantes helps his daughter Kehity do her homework where they live with Jose's sister in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020, two months after his wife, her mother, died of COVID-19. Their case highlights how COVID-19 deaths the world over are often the beginning of a new personal journey for those affected. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
In Chile, life goes on for loved ones after COVID-19

By Eva Vergara And Esteban Félix Sep. 10, 2020 01:44 PM EDT

Haitian migrant and coffin factory worker Francois Joseph eats his lunch at the Bergut Funeral Services factory in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, June 18, 2020. The coffin production has had to increase up to 120%, according to Nicolas Bergerie, owner of the factory. His more basic coffin model is called the COVID model and is made to cope with the increase of deaths during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Chileans mass produce caskets to deal with COVID onslaught

By Eva Vergara Jun. 20, 2020 12:03 AM EDT

An elderly woman, wearing a make-do protective face mask as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, waits to receive a free meal at a church in The Cemetery neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, May 22, 2020. The number of people who come looking for food at the church has increased during the government ordered quarantine in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Disease that began among rich shifts to Latin America's poor

By Christine Armario May. 29, 2020 11:07 AM EDT

Protesters carry a damaged television spray painted with a message that reads in Spanish: “Turn it off for being a liar,” directed at local news channels, past a burning barricade during a protest demanding food aid from the government amid the new coronavirus pandemic, at the 17 de Mayo neighborhood, in Santiago, Chile, Tuesday, May 26, 2020. Protesters are complaining about the lack of resources to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Chile's hospital ICUs near full capacity as pandemic rages

By Eva Vergara May. 26, 2020 03:55 PM EDT

FILE - In this July 25, 2016, file photo, an agent of LATAM airlines stands by the counters at the airport in Santiago, Chile. The South American carrier said Tuesday, May 26, 2020, it is seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as it grapples with the sharp downturn in air travel sparked by the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File)
Latam Airlines seeks bankruptcy protection as travel slumps

By Adam Schreck May. 26, 2020 01:26 AM EDT

A pedestrian wears a protective mask during the coronavirus pandemic while walking along East 60th Street Friday, May 22, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Record virus infections, deaths are ravaging Latin America

By David Biller And Christopher Sherman May. 22, 2020 01:58 AM EDT

Family members wait in hopes of receiving news of their hospitalized loved ones, in a tent outside a public hospital treating both COVID-19 and other patients, in the Iztapalapa district of Mexico City, Tuesday, May 5, 2020. Iztapalapa has the most confirmed cases of the new coronavirus within Mexico's densely populated capital, itself one of the hardest hit areas of the country with thousands of confirmed cases and around 500 deaths.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
'This is war': Virus charges beyond Latin American hot spots

By Gonzalo Solano And Michael Weissenstein May. 19, 2020 09:57 AM EDT

In this photo released by the El Salvador Presidency Press Office, inmates are lined up during a security operation under the watch of police at the Izalco prison in San Salvador, El Salvador, Saturday, April 25, 2020. Authorities crammed the prisoners, albeit wearing masks, tightly together in prison yards while searching their cells. President Nayib Bukele ordered the crackdown after more than 20 people were murdered in the country Friday and intelligence suggested the orders came from imprisoned gang leaders. (El Salvador President Press Office via AP)
Virus spreads fear through Latin America's unruly prisons

By Eva Vergara And Maria Verza Apr. 27, 2020 11:46 AM EDT

In this Sunday, March 29, 2020 photo, Rev. Steven Paulikas decorates an altar with palm fronds for Palm Sunday, which will be commemorated virtually this year, at All Saints' Episcopal Church in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The global coronavirus pandemic is upending the season's major religious holidays, forcing leaders and practitioners across faiths to improvise. (AP Photo/Emily Leshner)
Virus alters Holy Week celebration worldwide, not the spirit

By David Crary And Luis Andres Henao Apr. 04, 2020 12:32 PM EDT