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Chile court declares abortion regulation unconstitutional

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In this Nov. 8, 2018 photo, Venezuelan born Andrea Diaz, Miss Chile, takes part in a runway class in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. &quot;I represent the new Chile,&quot; the 26-year-old said as she was training at a local gym in Santiago for the upcoming competition. &quot;This is an inclusive country where immigrants come in search of opportunities.&quot; (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Venezuelan beauty queens migrate for shot at stardom abroad

By MANUEL RUEDA and EVA VERGARA - Associated Press

Haitian migrants wait to register for repatriation, at a local gym in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018. After an unsuccessful migration experience to Chile, 176 Haitians were flown home on a military plane free of charge. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Chile repatriates Haitian migrants

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In this Nov. 1, 2018 photo, Argentina national female soccer player Luana Munoz poses for a photo at the Argentina Football Association, after a training session in Buenos Aires, Argentina. &quot;Women are not accepted in this environment yet. That's why there's so much resistance to broadcasting female sports, especially soccer,&quot; said 19-year-old wingback. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Argentine women fight against inequality in soccer

By DEBORA REY - Associated Press

Magnitude 6.2 quake shakes north Chile; no reports of damage

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FILE - In this April 13, 2013 file photo, Chile's Cardinal Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa attends Mass for the election of a new pope inside St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican. Victims of sexual abuse by Chile’s most infamous pedophile priest are filing a criminal complaint against Errazuriz who is an adviser to Pope Francis. Victims of the Rev. Fernando Karadima accuse Errazuriz of perjury. They also say he’s part of Chile's wretched record on clerical abuse and cover-up. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Chile: abuse victims file complaint against ex-archbishop

By EVA VERGARA - Associated Press

Pope Francis speaks as he meets with Chile's President Sebastian Pinera and his wife Cecilia Morel during a private audience at the Vatican, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018. (Alessandro Bianchi/Pool Photo via AP)

Pope defrocks 2 Chilean bishops accused of sex abuse

By NICOLE WINFIELD and COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 18, 2018 file photo, the archbishop of Santiago, Ricardo Ezzati, gives his first mass after returning from the Vatican, in Santiago. Chile's Catholic church is apologizing for a set of guidelines published on Friday, Sept. 28, that have caused outrage just as the South American country is being rocked by a widespread clerical sex abuse scandal. (AP Photo/ Luis Hidalgo, File)

Chile church says sorry for conduct guidelines for priests

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO and PATRICIA LUNA - Associated Press

View of the U.N. World Court where judges delivered their verdict on a request by Bolivia, left table, for judges to order Chile, rear center table, to enter talks over granting its landlocked neighbor access to the Pacific Ocean, in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

UN court rejects Bolivia’s Pacific Ocean access case

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

President Donald Trump, right, smiles as Chilean president Sebastian Pinera holds up a picture showing the Chilean flag at the center of the U.S. flag, in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Sept. 28, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump meets with Chilean leader at the White House

By KEN THOMAS - Associated Press

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a press conference at the Miraflores Presidential Palace, in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018. Venezuela and China have agreed to joint investments Maduro announced on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuela says diplomats may be tied to assassination try

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Pope Francis delivers his speech during his weekly general audience, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope lets more bishops go as part of Chile sex abuse fallout

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Rodolfo Reyes, right, nephew of the late poet Pablo Neruda, gives a press conference alongside lawyer Elisabeth Flores in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018. Reyes says that money owed by Chile to laboratories abroad is blocking final tests to determine the cause of death of the Nobel Prize-winning poet. The leftist writer died in the chaos following Chile's 1973 right-wing military coup. The official version was that he died of cancer. Some have speculated that he was poisoned. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Neruda nephew: Chile debt blocks tests on poet’s remains

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Japan cancels soccer friendly against Chile after earthquake

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United States' Mallory Pugh (11) jumps over Chile's Camila Saez (18) and past Geraldine Leyton (17) during the first half of an international friendly soccer match in San Jose, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Lloyd scores twice in second half, US women beat Chile 4-0

By JANIE McCAULEY - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 20, 2017, file photo, Chile's then President Michelle Bachelet looks on during a visit to Memory Park which honors the victims of the country's dictatorship, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Bachelet was 23 years old when she was tortured and fled her country's dictatorship into exile. Now in 2018, more than four decades later, she will have to face her painful past as the new U.N. human rights chief fighting such abuses worldwide. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)

New UN human rights chief has survived torture herself

By EVA VERGARA - Associated Press

United States' Christen Press, second from left, is hugged by teammates after scoring on a penalty kick against Chile during the first half of an international friendly soccer match Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, in Carson, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

US women beat Chile in warmup for World Cup qualifying

By GREG BEACHAM - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, left, and Argentina's Defense Minister Oscar Raul Aguad shake hands in Buenos Aires, Argentina Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018. Mattis is on an official visit to several South American countries. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Mattis says US will work more closely with Argentina

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

Ex-dictatorship police agents sentenced in Chile

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A man leaves the headquarters of the Catholic Church’s Episcopal Conference after authorities raided the building in Santiago, Chile, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018. Police raided the place as part of a widespread investigation into sex abuse committed by members of the Marist Brothers order in the South American country, prosecutors said. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Chile authorities raid Episcopal Conference in abuse probe

By EVA VERGARA - Associated Press