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Exile and Ladino

The Jews living in Spain were expelled in 1492 by the very Catholic kings Ferdinand and Isabella. The reasons for this expulsion have given rise to controversy, but it seems to have been at the request of the Inquisition. The…

No more honeymoon…

As we imagined, the new Chilean government has not had a second’s respite. It has not been able to enjoy even a week of the supposed “honeymoon” enjoyed by the new leaders. Rather, Boric and his team have been thrown…

The world is big

From my professional pilgrimages, which took me to five continents, I learned one lesson: despite your best efforts, the world cannot be summed up in what is called the ‘West’, or the ‘international community’, an appellation which, as Régis Debray…

Acción Humanista begins the process of legalisation as a political party

Yesterday, the Humanist Action movement, whose president is the deputy Tomás Hirsch and is sponsored by more than 100 people, whose sponsorships will be presented to the Electoral Service, began its procedures before a notary to become a political party.…

Let’s go for a feminist Latin America!

On the occasion of the change of government that took place in Chile, many guests came to the country, especially women leaders of the different feminist movements. The international feminist meeting “Macarena Valdés”, organised by the Feminist Coordinator of Apruebo…

The original ceremonial to begin to govern

Early this morning the new President Gabriel Boric began the day together with his partner Irina Karamanos, the ministers, undersecretaries, and the ancestral authorities of our native people’s representative of the whole territory. The purpose is to generate intercultural work…

“We would not be here without the mobilisations”, first speech of President Boric

From the balcony of the Palacio de La Moneda and before a square completely overflowing with people, Gabriel Boric, the youngest President in the history of Chile, gave his first speech in which he called for unity and reunion, reaffirmed…

The Boric effect on Chilean youth

This article is part of issue 0 of the recently launched humanist magazine Ciclos. Many analyses have been made of last December’s presidential election in Chile, where Gabriel Boric won at the polls with historic popular support that surpasses even…

The magazine Ciclos, a space for humanist reflection, will be launched live at 21:00 on Tuesday 22 February at 9pm

Who are we? When certainties collapse, chasms and darkness open up, but so do hopes. Sharing fears and desires, a small collective of human beings who agree on the values of universalist humanism began to tune in. A handful of…

No need to destroy “the good” => for people “like us”: the yellows

This group nostalgic for the years of Concertación’s reign, says: “Call for reflection in the constitutional debate”, as if in Chile there has been no reflection, particularly from 18 October 2019 onwards … Of course, there has been reflection on…

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