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Brazil & Southern Cone - February 2025
Boric reaffirms Chilean claim in Antarctica
President Gabriel Boric travelled to the US-run Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station on 3 January, making him the first Latin American president to visit the South Pole. Including Chile, seven countries have staked claims over parts of Antarctica. Furthering scientific cooperation was the ostensible reason for Boric’s Antarctica trip, but the visit of a head of state could signal a claimant country’s reaffirming of its interest over a piece of the White Continent, even though the territorial claims were effectively frozen in 1961, when the Antarctic Treaty came into force.
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