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Washington’s lackeys and the elections in Venezuela

Despite the fact that independent international observers have confirmed and revealed that the elections that took place in Venezuela were exemplary, the establishment insists on stigmatising the Bolivarian country through articles that seek to cast suspicion on the electoral process…

Pía Figueroa: Chile’s youth deserve to be at the forefront of events

Last Sunday national elections were held in Chile. Marianella Kloka spoke with Pía Figueroa, a member of our Chilean office, to get her first impressions of the process and the results, ahead of the second round of elections scheduled for…

Tomás Hirsch invites people to mobilise to vote ‘for those who guarantee rights for all’.

We interviewed Tomás Hirsch, Chilean humanist, re-elected as deputy for the 11th District of Santiago. The most conservative district in Chile, and “where we have the worst income distribution gap in our country”. We discuss with him his re-election and…

Chile: The far right, District 11 and the romanticisation of October

A couple of days before the parliamentary election, La Tercera published a bigdata analysis ranking each of the 155 current parliamentarians into left, centre and right, according to all their votes in the last four years. According to this ranking,…

Spain’s right wing goes to mass in memory of Franco – coincidentally?

The media and networks in Spain are hyperventilating because Pablo Casado, president of the Spanish Popular Party, has attended a mass with his family in Granada, held in memory of Francisco Franco, the dictator. To objectify it visually, which helps…

Chilean elections: Did the people really win?

Those who went to vote on Sunday did so in the conviction that they would have to return to the polls to decide between the two candidates with the highest number of votes. The polls, and not the popular demonstrations,…

Chile: As the crow flies

In this brief analysis I will refer to the results of the presidential election, which produced several surprises, the biggest of which was the emergence of Parisi in third place despite his absence from the country. Having campaigned virtually, not…

Face 2 Face with Tomás Hirsch

LIVE SHOW on Thursday, November 25th at 8 AM EST On this show, we speak with Tomás Hirsch, Member of Parliament in Chile for Acción Humanista since Nov 2017, who won the just held elections. We discuss beside the campaign,…

Elections in Honduras: The challenge of ending twelve years of neoliberalism

Honduras is at the most important crossroads of its recent history. On November 28, more than 5 million Hondurans will be asked to elect the President of the Republic, 128 deputies to the National Congress, 20 to the Central American…

Why US Pressure on Ukraine and Taiwan Is Driving China and Russia Closer Together

The “feel-good” from Tuesday’s  virtual meeting between President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping leaps out of the US-Russian summit in Geneva in June. Biden’s talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin apparently sought to create a “stable and predictable” relationship…

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