Chile's President José Antonio Kast and Venezuela's government of Delcy Rodríguez agreed on July 30 to restore consular services and establish a roadmap toward full diplomatic normalization; Chile's main condition was a mechanism to facilitate the deportation of irregular Venezuelan migrants, a campaign priority for Kast; ties were severed in early 2025 following the disputed July 2024 Venezuelan election

Chile's national emergency agency SENAPRED declared Red Alerts for at least 11 communes across three central regions on July 26-27 as intense winter rainfall combined with high-altitude snowmelt pushed the Perquilauquén, Chillán and Niblinto rivers above their red hydrometric thresholds; Chile's meteorological service forecast three consecutive weather systems bringing up to five more days of rain to the Santiago metropolitan area

Chile's Chamber of Deputies approved most of President José Antonio Kast's flagship economic reform bill, the Proyecto de Reconstrucción Nacional y Desarrollo Económico y Social, on July 21, dispatching the bulk of the legislation toward law after a tense session; only one article was sent to a comisión mixta for further reconciliation, while the opposition filed its Tribunal Constitucional requerimientos regardless

Chilean President José Antonio Kast declared a state of catastrophe in the Coquimbo and Atacama regions on July 20-21 after a severe winter weather system killed at least ten people, destroyed more than 1,100 homes, left 100,000 people isolated by road closures, and cut power to 150,000 homes; the Army was deployed for rescue operations

An intense frontal weather system struck central and southern Chile on July 17-18, killing at least four people, isolating 2,500, cutting electricity to more than 500,000 homes, and prompting red alerts in the Coquimbo and Valparaíso regions; copper mines reduced output and the government tracked a potential July rainfall record

Chile's Senate Finance Committee on July 13 approved 360-plus amendments and dispatched President José Antonio Kast's flagship economic bill, officially called the Proyecto de Reconstrucción Nacional y Desarrollo Económico y Social, to the full Senate chamber for a plenary vote scheduled for July 15; left-wing groups and environmental coalitions announced nationwide protests for the same day

Chile's government declared a preventive emergency across 10 regions from Atacama to Los Ríos from July 13 to 21, deploying 368 emergency committees, as an intense atmospheric river is forecast to bring extreme rain, strong winds, snow, coastal swells, and possible blizzards, with peak impact expected Tuesday to Saturday

A Santiago appeals court convicted retired colonels Pedro Espinoza Bravo, José Zara Holger, and Raúl Iturriaga Neumann as co-authors of the murder of American Ronni Moffitt, killed by a DINA car bomb on September 21, 1976 alongside former Chilean foreign minister Orlando Letelier; Letelier's killers were sentenced in 1995 but Moffitt's murder remained unprosecuted until now

Commerce must brief Trump on refined copper by month-end; a recommended 15% then 30% duty would reroute metal away from Chile, the DRC and Zambia

Chile's wholly state-owned copper company, Codelco is the world's largest single copper producer, supplying roughly 6% of global mine output and funding the Chilean treasury through statutory profit transfers.

The most-used industrial metal after steel, copper underpins every electric grid, EV, and clean-energy system, making Chile, the DRC, and Peru the indispensable suppliers to a decarbonising world.

A 570-kilometre sea passage through southern Chile linking the Atlantic and Pacific, and the sole sheltered alternative to the Drake Passage for vessels unable to use the Panama Canal.

Nova Andino Litio submitted a full Environmental Impact Study in June 2026 for the Salar Futuro lithium project in Chile's Atacama region, targeting US$2-3.5 billion in investment and 280,000-300,000 tonnes LCE per year; the project advances under the Kast government's reduced-state-control lithium framework after Boric's state-led model was set aside

Chile's Chamber of Deputies approved on 20 May 2026 the base text of President José Antonio Kast's Pacto Fiscal, a tax, labour-market, and state-reform package that Kast pitched to Bloomberg in April as central to Chile's 3-4% GDP growth target; Chile's economy grew 3.5% in 2025, above the Latin American average