Chile President Gabriel Boric, Latin America’s youngest leader, announced overnight Wednesday that he and his partner will soon be parents.
In a joint post around midnight on Instagram with his girlfriend, Paula Carrasco, the 38-year-old leftist president shared a photo of an ultrasound image of the baby.
“While we are waiting for you… we will do our best to make sure you can live in a fair and happy Chile,” they said in a post that received over 300,000 likes by Wednesday morning.
Boric would be the first president of the socially conservative, Catholic-majority country to have a child without first being married to his partner.
Carrasco, 30, is an environmental chemist working in Chile’s Ministry of the Environment, as well as a professional basketball player with the country’s national team.
Boric had met her in October last year when the Pan American Games were held in Chile, and they made their relationship public in September 2024.
Carrasco is the president’s second girlfriend since he took office in March 2022.