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Change” has arrived

February 8, 2022. el Espectador Since Sunday we have had a magazine in cyberspace and on the radar of our criteria: it is called Cambio, and it has life because its managers have taken the courage to face the challenges…

National Day for nonviolence in the relationship

For the first time in Chile, the national day for “Non-partner violence” was commemorated on 7 February. Violence and mistreatment between young couples without cohabitation has been naturalised and justified under the pretext of love. A misunderstood love that begins…

Congress approves education rollback and blocks environmental progress

Parliament approved legislation that represents a step backwards in the quality of education and sex education, and blocked other initiatives to make progress on environmental issues. While the country was plunged into a new political crisis, the Congress of the…

The government of Mendoza has privatised a part of the Cordillera

The free handing over of 12,351 hectares, with an important portion of the Cordillera with strategic natural assets, was formalised through Decree 2138/2021, signed by the governor of Mendoza, Rodolfo Suárez, and the Minister of Government, Victor Ibáñez, on 23…

The transnational plunder of Chilean copper

The study, “New estimates of the wealth given away to large private copper mining companies: Chile 2005-2015”, addressed the economic rent obtained by the 10 largest mining companies in Chile. Using official World Bank (WB) data for the period 2005-2014…

Haiti, San Martin and the odious foreign debt

The colonising logic of the centres of conditioning capital, from the very beginning, sought to take over Latin America, dominating it in different ways, according to their interests, beyond the principles that were proclaimed and the freedom that was promised.…

A strategy against divisiveness and disillusionment

“Utopia is on the horizon. I walk two steps, it moves two steps away and the horizon runs ten steps further. So, what is utopia for? That’s what it’s for, it’s for walking. This famous phrase, popularised by Eduardo Galeano,…

Declaration of climate emergency: an answer to the new generations

Supreme Decree Nº 003-2022-MINAM declaring the climate emergency to be of national interest marks a path towards the future in our country, given the State’s recognition that we are facing an emergency, and this is very important because it highlights…

Women’s march in Bolivia against justice after the release of femicides and rapists

On Monday 31 January, a massive “Women’s March against sexist violence and corruption in the justice system” took place from the Ballivian area of El Alto, through the city of La Paz and ended in front of the departmental court…

Marilén Cabrera, humanist, nominated as Undersecretary of National Assets for Boric’s government

Twenty men and nineteen women make up the cabinet of Undersecretaries that will form part of Gabriel Boric’s government from 11 March. The team of Undersecretaries is made up of eleven independents, eight members of Revolución Democrática, six of the…

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