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Mayor of La Cisterna, Joel Olmos, joins Acción Humanista

In a fraternal afternoon with a relaxed atmosphere, a meeting took place between members of Acción Humanista to welcome the Mayor of La Cisterna, Joel Olmos, who officially joined the party this week. The meeting was also attended by members…

What is twenty-seven thousand people?

It is different to think “abstractly” of twenty-seven thousand people, as if it were just another conceptual datum, a quantity, a price, a distance…. than to represent twenty-seven thousand human beings, each one with his or her very particular characteristics,…

Chile hosts extraordinary meeting of Latin American and Caribbean Ministers of Education

The meeting will bring together the region’s education ministers at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago and will have an impact on 33 countries with approximately 125 million students, who 6.9 million teachers serve. The event aims to advance in the definition…

Chile: Mario Aguilar returns to the presidency of the Teachers’ College calling on the government to fulfill its commitments.

In his first speech as the new National President of the Chilean Teachers’ Association, Mario Aguilar called on the government to fulfill its commitments to education. The union leader denounced that “once again the Government has failed in its commitment…

Yes, I’m a Jew! So what? The Dilemmas of Being Jewish and Left-wing in Chile

After forty days and forty nights on the ark, crammed among a large family and animals of all species, the waters began to recede, and Noah saw an extraordinary seven-colored bow of light in the sky. Noah and his descendants…

“We are hopeful, but we are not naïve”, artisanal fishermen react to the draft new fishing law

Artisanal fishermen from CONDEPP reacted to the presentation of the draft of the new fishing law by President Gabriel Boric accompanied by the Minister of Economy Nicolás Grau, this morning in the cove of Quintay. For Hernán Cortés, president of…

Joint statement by activists and organisations against the signing of the Chile-EU Treaty

Stop Colonial Plunder! Joint Statement Against the signing of the Chile-EU Treaty Organisations, politicians and activists from the European Union and Chile signed a joint declaration promoted by Chile Mejor sin TLC, Against the Chile/European Union Treaty, signed on 13/Dec…

The more violence dominates, the more necessary humanism becomes.

Just before Chile lives its second ratifying vote on the Constitution, we talk to Efren Osorio, Secretary General of the Humanist Action party. Efren welcomes us in his office and smiles when we mention how accurate his political and electoral…

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,…

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