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Generation gap and the Viña del Mar Festival 2023

The day after the Viña del Mar 2023 Festival Gala, christened “Zero Night”, I had the opportunity to be in conversation with other people of my generation. Listening to comments such as: “it was an indecency”, “they don’t know what…

Imprint of peace

Four years ago, on 20 February, in the midst of a government that we need to remember because contexts are necessary to understand things, the Defend Peace movement was born. We joined together civil society, artists, former ministers, and peace…

Latin America Is Working to End the Monroe Doctrine

History seems to show some partial benefit to Latin America in moments when the United States was otherwise distracted, as by its Civil War and other wars. This is a moment right now in which the U.S. government is at…

“Watershed” agreement: Farmers, water suppliers and communities work together to protect forests and water sources

In Bolivia, 24,000 farmers in cooperation with communities and public water suppliers protect more than 600,000 hectares of forest from deforestation, exploitation, and the interests of mining companies—and thus protect the regional water supply in the long term. The Reciprocal…

Facing a new constituent process

PRELIMINARY The selection and registration phase of candidates for constitutional councillors in the new constituent process ended on the 6th of this month. Consequently, a new phase has begun in which both the parties and the candidates themselves will have…

Traces of memory

By Hugo Behm Rosas* FRATERNITY IN THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS OF THE DICTATORSHIP From the foreword by Miguel Lawner: This is a song of fraternity over hatred. There are not many books written about the experiences suffered by tens of thousands…

Cynicism in Chile with its phrase “Children first”.

The issue of the lack of protection in the daily life of children in our country is painful and long-standing, from the situation of mass child labour, socially accepted in the fields and in mining since ancient times, to the…

“The Inner Look” for children and a Mapudungun translation of Silo’s Message: two contributions to the spread of Siloism

We talked to Saúl Asenjo, a long-time Siloist who today lives in the state of Pennsylvania, near New York. From there he has managed and helped to produce two interesting editorial contributions for the dissemination of Siloism among children and…

Generations and politics in Latin America and the Caribbean

The political forces that value human solidarity and critical thinking are astonished to see that many young people, a priori considered champions of rebellion and promoters of new visions, are manifesting themselves on the public stage by adhering to retrograde…

Chile, the country where denialism surpasses reality

The installation of negationism in our culture For some time now it seems that a denialist attitude has been installed in our country. A series of social realities, including studies and figures, and relevant historical or natural facts are denied…

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