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The popular will has been forcefully expressed in a historic plebiscite. Rather than a finishing point, this huge triumph should represent the signal for starting the construction of a new Chile.
Last Sunday, 25 October, a historic plebiscite took place in Chile. The people went to the polls, (...)
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Chile was out of step with Latin American leftward-bending trends in the closing days of the last century and the opening salvos of the present one. Partly, this had to do with the fact that the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet from 1973 to 1990 so unambiguously terrorized and (...)
Chilean president Sebastián Piñera declared on television on 8 October 2019 that “Chile is a real oasis in a convulsed Latin America”. In fact, Chile has been presented to the world for almost thirty years as a model to be exported and an example of neoliberal stability. The key to “success” was (...)
Mapuche protesters in south launch attacks on symbols of Spanish colonial rule and distant government in Santiago
As peaceful protesters and rioters alike have thronged the streets of the Chilean capital of Santiago to protest against inequality and state repression, a string of no less (...)
Interview with Frank Gaudichaud
By Jean Baptiste Thomas and Julien Anchaing
Translation by Héctor A. Rivera
Révolution Permanente: According to mainstream analysts and economists, Chile was an island of stability and prosperity in Latin America. In view of the current mobilizations, how do you (...)
“Cuchara de palo frente a tus balazos
y al toque de queda… Cacerolazo”
(Ana Tijoux[1])
I arrived in Santiago on October 23, 2019, the morning on which the General Strike began, which was called after the protests that exploded spontaneously a few days earlier. The city still smelled of tear gas (...)
ALL SUPPORT TO THE CHILEAN PEOPLE: NOT ONLY 30 PESOS! BELOW THE CURFEW! AGAINST THE ABUSES OF PIÑERA!
Chile is considered an example for the Bolsonaro government and the Brazilian business community. Some political sectors of our country envy the Chilean economic model, which they call “Latin (...)
Chile’s protest movement is the largest in a generation and it doesn’t just want economic reforms – it wants to overturn the legacy of the Pinochet dictatorship.
This weekend saw the largest demonstrations in Chile since the return of democracy. In Santiago, more than a million people took to the (...)
Chile has exploded in social protests for the past several days, initially ignited by an increase in the metro fare. The initial protests developed into a national strike, even though conservative President Sebastián Piñera rescinded the four percent increase in subway fares last Saturday and (...)
The social explosion that began on October 18 against the increase in Santiago Metro fares has much deeper causes, causing social mobilization in all regions of the country. Chilean society has grown tired of the few living at the expense of the majority and any social cost falling on the poor. (...)
At the beginning of last week an increase in fares was announced for the Santiago subway, a fundamental means of transport in this city, which unleashed a wave of protests led by the students who called for days of “subway evasion”. Subway evasions were harshly suppressed by police inside the (...)
In Chile, a transit fare hike turned into a nationwide mass protest against austerity. Now the country’s right-wing president and military are responding with repression unseen since the Pinochet dictatorship.
On Friday night, Chile’s right-wing president Sebastían Piñera called a state of (...)
The situation in Chile is evolving rapidly. This statement was issued on Sunday 20 October, the day before the general strike.
The secondary students lit the fuse by fare evasion in the Santiago metro. That was a week ago, as a reaction to the rising price of fares that exceeded the equivalent (...)
Thousands jump barriers in response to metro fare rise Police use teargas on protesters decrying rising cost of living
Thousands of school and university students have joined a mass fare-dodging protest in Chile, flooding into metro stations in the country’s capital to vault turnstiles and (...)
Nae Pasaran tells the tale of a time when a group of Glaswegians defied Pinochet
On only one occasion did I feel moved to apply a censor’s red pen through a line of copy by another writer for political reasons. It happened around 20 years ago when I held an executive position at a national (...)
Demonstrators suspect anti-abortion activists after three women attacked by masked assailants
Human rights activists in Chile have expressed shock and concern after masked attackers stabbed three women at a protest in favour of free and legal abortion.
One of the women was wounded in the (...)
Chile’s Mapuche people are resorting to increasingly extreme tactics to reclaim their ancestral land from exploitive industries
It is late autumn in southern Chile, and in the region of Araucanía, the leaves have turned copper and gold. But on the road to the mist-shrouded town of Lumaco, the (...)
Power Resources in the Workers’ Union at Starbucks Chile
A Case Study by Felipe Labra
Over the course of the last decade, Chile—a country with high levels of youth unemployment and precarious work—has witnessed the birth of a new trade union within Starbucks, a company whose founding principles (...)
Sergio Grez, professor of history at the University of Chile (Santiago) and Franck Gaudichaud, lecturer in Latin American Civilization at the University of Grenoble (and currently visiting researcher at the University of Chile), were interviewed on the political and social situation in Chile (...)
Last year Socialist Michelle Bachelet reclaimed the presidency after four years of center-right rule and restored power to the Concertación coalition that had governed Chile since redemocratization. For progressives, and even some radicals, this election opens a period of heretofore elusive (...)
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