Santiago Commitment: Chile Hosts Five-Nation Summit Against Organized Crime with Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia

On May 28, Chile hosted a high-level security and foreign policy summit at La Moneda with interior and foreign ministers from Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia. The five nations signed the 'Compromiso de Santiago' (Santiago Commitment) — a multilateral intelligence-sharing and joint-operations pact targeting transnational organized crime, drug trafficking, human smuggling, and arms networks crossing South American borders. President Kast declared: 'Estamos hartos de ver cómo el crimen organizado mata a nuestros jóvenes' (We are tired of seeing how organized crime kills our young people). The pact includes joint border patrol protocols, a shared intelligence database, coordination mechanisms for seizing narco-cartel financial networks, and commitments on cross-border extradition acceleration. The summit was organized partly in response to evidence that Venezuelan, Balkan, and Central American criminal organizations have established operational footholds in multiple South American countries since 2020. Chile's participation reflected the Kast government's core security doctrine: regional conservative solidarity against crime, migration, and narco-state expansion.