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Politics, a lucrative investment

It is a well-known fact that the left is always divided, just as the right also tends to express itself in very belligerent alternatives to each other, although finally they unite and converge to participate in elections or overthrow governments.…

The fight against extractivism will continue in the streets and on the roads despite government threats

Social organisations and socio-environmental assemblies from all over the country warn that, despite the government’s repressive threats, they will continue mobilising in defence of the territory and against agribusiness, mining and oil exploitation. They denounce the “Argentine fascism” of the…

Will Argentina fail in 2024?

Between 2019 and 2020 massive social uprisings shook the political scene in Chile, Ecuador and Colombia. The drops that overflowed the glass of popular (in)patience were the increase in the cost of public transport, the price of fuel and a…

“We are hopeful, but we are not naïve”, artisanal fishermen react to the draft new fishing law

Artisanal fishermen from CONDEPP reacted to the presentation of the draft of the new fishing law by President Gabriel Boric accompanied by the Minister of Economy Nicolás Grau, this morning in the cove of Quintay. For Hernán Cortés, president of…

Chile. 116 years since the massacre at the Santa María school in Iquique: trade unionists stage a sit-in at the Army Commander-in-Chief’s Office

“We have pure reasons, we have why to fight”. Luis Advis On 21 December 1907, 116 years ago, thousands of striking saltpeter workers and their families were killed by the Chilean army. In the massacre at the Santa María school…

Chile: We’re screwed

I am one of those who maintain that the problems of democracy can be solved with more democracy. But it must be a good democracy, otherwise, we’re screwed. Individualism, arrogance, competition, ambition, selfishness, idleness, and over-ideologisation of the extremes are…

.Saying “Merry Christmas”

It is hard to say Merry Christmas when in 10 weeks 19,000 Palestinians have been killed, 85% of Gaza’s population has been displaced, and the state of Israel insists it will not stop its attacks until Hamas is exterminated. Netanyahu…

Chile’s new constitution: change everything so that nothing changes

“The true blues continue to inhabit and disturb the dreams of our adolescent peoples. Now it seems to me that during the social outburst of 2019 when the whole country was taking to the streets chanting “Chile woke up”, the…

Argentina: not to be mistaken for a nightmare, this is reality

Argentina’s cities are rapidly losing their traditional vertigo. A strident, lethargic, lethargic silence survives. The euphoria of winning the World Cup is over, although the media still insist that the Argentinians “are world champions”. The people are aware that nothing…

Chile, Tomás Hirsch: “The victory of the No vote in the constitutional referendum is a cause for relief”.

The draft constitution drawn up by the right was rejected yesterday with more than 55% of the vote. We have requested Tomas Hirsch, Deputy Hirsch, president of Humanist Action, to comment on the referendum result. The triumph of the No…

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