South America

José Mujica receives CTXT at his farm in the Cerro neighbourhood of Montevideo. Cordial and attentive, he talks for 50 minutes about politics with his usual lucidity. He admits that he may be wrong when he says that Europe has…

In his first public statement of 2022, Boric said: “I want to be emphatic in this, we must take responsibility for addressing the inequalities that citizens live and that are expressed in multiple dimensions. I want us to build a…

I was born in a Diaguita territory, in the inlet of Tequirque on the hill of Kokimpu in 1964, I have lived in Coquimbo all my life and I am the creator of some musical instruments with South-Andean influences in…

Movimiento Movilizándonos mobilised in favour of the rights of children and adolescents in the Magna Carta. While in the former National Congress, the Commission of Experts presented the preliminary draft and took over the Constitutional Council to develop the new…

Brazilian President Lula da Silva presented his plan to end deforestation in the Amazon by 2030. Together with Environment Minister Marina Silva, he made the announcement as part of the initiatives taken by the government to combat climate change. “Due…

Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has promised that the deforestation process suffered by the Brazilian Amazon will end by 2030, after making combatting indiscriminate logging and forest removal the centerpiece of his environmental policy. Lula’s Brazilian socialist government…

By Maxine Lowy In a house of a verdant upscale neighborhood of Santiago, Chile, Nancy accompanies a retiree. In Venezuela she was a nurse, until basic materials- alcohol, cotton, syringes, and food to prepare healthy meals for patients- became scarce,…

From the spheres of the Chilean political elite, signals are being raised announcing a world financial crisis, which will deal a hard blow to the domestic economy, which is already in the midst of a period of unstoppable rises and…

On Sunday 7 May, elections were held in Chile for the Constitutional Council, which will have to prepare a new draft Constitution, after the previous one, very advanced in many aspects, was rejected in the referendum of September 2022. The…

Chile’s National Copper Corporation (Codelco) today presented two new companies created to explore and exploit lithium in the Andean country, which will articulate the state’s role in the national lithium strategy launched by the government last month. Codelco’s board of…