Before February’s devastating quake, Fernando Echeverria ran a major construction company and led Chile’s powerful chamber of builders, which successfully lobbied against government inspections that would have made companies like his more...

Neither the cold of winter nor the hardships of a sour economy have dampened amorous pursuits for Chileans, a university survey has found. Slightly more than 80 percent of the Chileans surveyed, all living in the capital city of Santiago, said their...