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50 years: remembering Bautista Van Schouwen Vasey

With the presence of his son Pablo, his brother Jorge, his partner Astrid, Inés and several other people related to his family, friends, comrades in struggle, militants of various forces of the left, people from the world of culture, humanism,…

The Resistance of the Argentinean Memory: Human Rights in the New Political Scenario

By Maxine Lowy Slowly, the crowd moves forward one step and then another and then stands still, slowly turning counterclockwise, with the Pirámide de Mayo crowned by the Statue of Liberty on the left and the Casa Rosada in front,…

Human Rights and education

On 10 December, Human Rights Day (HRD) was celebrated all over the world, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Paris in 1948. This declaration was a very important historical milestone in…

Human Rights: Laura Rodríguez and the Villa Grimaldi Peace Park

We publish here the words of the humanist Dario Ergas on the occasion of the installation of a plaque in homage to Deputy Laura Rodríguez in the Villa Grimaldi Peace Park, which she helped to found in the years immediately…

The last session of the Nonviolent Journalism workshop in Cerrillos, Santiago de Chile

This Saturday we held the no-end session of the Nonviolent Journalism Workshop (PNV) in the Central Bookshop of the Cerrillos district (Santiago de Chile). This workshop was an abbreviated version of the international online workshop that concluded on November 25th.…

A Monumental Mural Visibilizes the Memory and History of the University of Chile

              /Maxine Lowy/ Through a yellowish-orange crack, a sepia-tinted eye from the past unblinkingly observes the scene below. It gazes down at today’s generation of this university world, cell phones in their hands, and…

For Juan Eduardo Pérez

On Thursday 26 October 2023, Juan Eduardo Pérez died. Every departure, even if it is inevitable and known, reminds us that we are not enchained to this time and space. Every definitive departure leads us to question ourselves about this…

Chile: Nonviolent Journalism Workshop in the Cerrillos Municipality

It is the first in-person workshop on Nonviolent Journalism. By: Ricardo Rojas With great enthusiasm, the Nonviolent Journalism Workshop developed by the International News Agency Pressenza began to take place in the Public Bookshop of the Cerrillos community. The workshop…

Sharp declares Allende an “illustrious citizen of Valparaíso”.

We publish here the words of the Mayor of Valparaíso, Jorge Sharp, at the ceremony held on 11 September to posthumously declare President Allende an illustrious citizen of the city: “This September 11, 2023, 50 years after the coup d’état,…

A few days ago the book “Engaños Mutuos: El Golpe Gringo” (Mutual Deception: The Gringo Coup), written by Cristián Opaso.

We share an extract from Cristián Opaso’s book which reproduces a conversation with René Schneider, son of the Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the same name, who was assassinated in October 1970 in an attempt – organised and financed by…

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