La Tercera Paywall: How to Read La Tercera Articles for Free
La Tercera, the Santiago daily from Grupo Copesa, meters its news and keeps columns and Pulso business stories for subscribers. How to read a full article.
Paywall behaviour last tested
La Tercera is one of the two national dailies that dominate Chilean journalism. Published in Santiago by Grupo Copesa, it is the main rival to El Mercurio and is known for a strong political desk, a lively opinion page and Pulso, its business and economics section, which is required reading in the Chilean financial world. Its most-shared pieces, the political columns, the long reconstructions of events in La Moneda and the Pulso exclusives, are precisely the ones that most often meet the subscription prompt, so a reader arriving from a social media link frequently sees a box instead of the story. This guide explains how the paywall works and how to read a full article.
How the La Tercera paywall works
La Tercera runs a freemium paywall with a meter on top. Breaking news and agency copy are generally open to everyone. Opinion columns, Pulso business reporting and the weekend features are more often reserved for subscribers, and non-subscribers also hit a monthly limit on the number of articles they can open before a prompt appears. The count is stored in a browser cookie.
The gate is enforced in the browser. The article text is delivered in the page so that search engines can index it, and a script then checks whether you are a subscriber or over your limit and swaps the body for the subscription box. A reader that fetches the page without running that script receives the complete article. Our explainer on metered versus hard paywalls sets out why that distinction matters, and La Tercera sits on the softer side of it.
Our tests on 20 October 2026 through Skip the Paywall:
- A 1,012-word La Tercera Pulso report on a Deloitte study warning that Chile's electricity transmission infrastructure cannot carry the amount of energy now available in the system loaded in full, all 22 paragraphs.
- A 963-word La Tercera opinion column, "El camino a la tercera vez", tracing Michelle Bachelet's path towards a possible third presidency, loaded in full, all 14 paragraphs.
- A 536-word La Tercera column by Javier Sajuria, "No es casualidad", comparing the unrest in Europe with Chile's own estallido seven years on, loaded in full, all 8 paragraphs.
Read a La Tercera article in full
- Copy the article link. La Tercera links look like latercera.com/opinion/noticia/ or latercera.com/pulso/noticia/ followed by a slug and a trailing slash, so the pattern is latercera.com/<section>/noticia/<slug>/.
- Paste it into the box on the home page and press Read Article.
- The story appears in a clean reader view with the headline, byline and full text.
The reader shows the article in Spanish, exactly as La Tercera published it. If you want it in English, your browser's built-in translation works on the reader page in the normal way.
Other approaches
- Newsletters. La Tercera sends free email bulletins, including a morning briefing and Pulso newsletters, that summarise the day's stories and link to them.
- Library access. La Tercera is carried on PressReader, which many public libraries in Chile, the US, Canada and the UK offer free to cardholders.
- Private windows. The monthly meter lives in a cookie, so a private window resets it, though subscriber-only pieces stay closed.
- Related free sources. Chilean government statements, Congress records and central bank publications are free, and much of La Tercera's political and Pulso reporting can be checked against them.
How it compares with other Latin American papers
La Tercera behaves much like the other regional dailies we have tested. Colombia's El Tiempo, tested on the same day, loaded in full on every try, and so do Argentina's Clarín and Puerto Rico's El Nuevo Día. The exception in the Spanish-language press is Spain's El País, which does not work: elpais.com blocked every request in our 17 October 2026 tests, so there is no El País guide. The full list of sites that work is kept current.
Subscribe if you read it regularly
La Tercera employs one of the largest newsrooms in Chile and funds the kind of political reconstruction and business reporting that takes weeks. If you read its columns and Pulso every day, a digital subscription, which is often discounted for the first year, is the right way to keep that reporting going.
Try it with an article
Paste the URL of an article from La Tercera and read it in a clean reader view. Free, instant, no signup.
Frequently asked questions
Who owns La Tercera?
Grupo Copesa, the Santiago media group that also publishes a stable of magazines and radio stations. La Tercera is the main rival to El Mercurio and the home of the Pulso business section.
Does the reader work on Pulso and opinion articles?
Yes. All three articles in our 20 October 2026 tests, a Pulso report and two opinion columns, loaded in full. La Tercera delivers the article text in the page and hides it with a script, which the reader does not run.
Does it work on El País too?
No. El País blocked every request in our 17 October 2026 tests, so it is not on the list of supported sites. La Tercera, El Tiempo, Clarín and El Nuevo Día all pass.