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 (...)
Interview with Sebastián Farfán Salinas, a former member of the executive of Confech, the Confederation of Chilean Students, and Carla Amtmann Fecci, former president of the student federation at the Catholic University of Valparaiso. Both participated in the presidential campaign of the “Todos a (...)
Interview with Roxana Miranda, presidential candidate at the 2013 elections and president of the Igualdad party, and Christian Cepeda, an activist in the party. The interview was conducted by Franck Gaudichaud.
Franck Gaudichaud – Can you say a few words on the Igualdad (Equality) party and its (...)
The French political scientist Franck Gaudichaud is in Chile in his research semester for University of Grenoble 3, in which he is professor of Latin American studies. A Doctorate in political science, he is a contributor to the prestigious electronic daily, Rebelion.org. Gaudichaud, with links (...)
Interview with Marco Alvarez, an activist with Libres del Sur. The interview was conducted by Franck Gaudichaud.
Franck Gaudichaud – Can you tell us something about Libres del Sur and its history?
Marco Alvarez – Libres del Sur is a revolutionary organisation which appeared publicly in the (...)
Sunday, December 15, Santiago de Chile, at three o’clock in the afternoon. The sun is at its zenith, the sky looks clear and temporarily free from the halo of pollution that clings every day to the slopes of the Andes which overlook the city. The heat of the southern summer is already here, (...)
An interview with Chilean Marxist economist Rafael Agacino. Interview conducted by Franck Gaudichaud.
Franck Gaudichaud – How would you characterise Bachelet’s economic programme, its main axes and her relations with the employers?
Rafael Agacino – So far as content is concerned, the centre of (...)
This article is the introduction to a series of articles covering different aspects of the situation in Chile today. The other articles and interviews will be published as they become available.
International Viewpoint
For months, the business seemed settled : Michèle Bachelet would be the (...)
The repression perpetrated by Sebastian Piñera’s administration in Chile against several Mapuche communities in the region of Araucania has resulted in multiple solidarity actions and expressions at international level. One of them is the Latin American Coordination of Rural Organizations, CLOC – (...)
SANTIAGO, Jan 8 2013 (IPS) - A string of attacks in the southern Chilean region of Araucanía, where native Mapuche people are struggling for their land rights, puts the spotlight squarely on what analysts call the “supine ignorance” displayed by authorities about the country’s history.
Two persons (...)
CHILEANS WENT TO the polls on October 28, 2012 to elect mayors and city councils from Arica, bordering Peru in the North, to Punta Arenas in southern Tierra del Fuego. Considering the student movement that unleashed what seemed like unstoppable waves of mass militancy over the past year and a (...)
An interview with Marco Alvarez Vergara, an activist in Chile’s “Libres del Sur” movement , conducted by Franck Gaudichaud of France’s Nouveau Parti Anti-capitaliste.
Franck Gaudichaud – First of all we would like you to present the current situation of social struggles in Chile. Latin America has (...)
Two boys sit on the second floor balcony of their occupied public high school, José Victorino Lastarria in Santiago, Chile. They peer down through the railing, dangling a cup on a string two meters below to request donations from pedestrians. A few strides away, their classmates hold signs that (...)
THE PINGÜINOS CAME back, and their march turned into an all out anti-neoliberal stampede.
The powerful movement of Chilean students (nicknamed “the penguins” after their dark-blue and white uniforms), which first rocked the presidency of Socialist Michelle Bachelet in 2006, returned with a (...)
This interview for the Swiss fortnightly SolidaritéS was conducted on October 13 by Jean Batou and Juan Tortosa . Sebastian Farfán Salinas, 23 years old, is president of the Student Federation at the University of Valparaiso and a member of the national executive of the student movement. He (...)
On September 22, 2011, wearing a dark suit, a purple tie and a light blue shirt, president Sebastián Piñera went up to the rostrum of the General Assembly of the United Nations. The head of the Chilean government - and nevertheless a successful multi-millionaire businessman – had a wide smile on (...)
Santiago,
Dubbed by some “Chile’s Winter,” fierce demonstrations in recent months have transformed one of Latin America’s most stable countries into an epicenter of protest. Marches involving tens of thousands over education cutbacks and a Patagonia dam project have become regular events since (...)
Perhaps the greatest challenge for the radical left today is to articulate a politics that decisively breaks with the disastrous experiences of many 20th century socialisms. This is a difficult task that requires self-reflection, active questioning, and openness to new expressions of struggle (...)
Courtesy of the harsh southern winter, it is in the cold and rain that Chilean students have been fighting for their demands for nearly three months now. They are nonetheless planting seeds – as the mobilizations of civil society continue to grow – that offer the promise of a formidable social (...)
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