Chile
“Santiago is crying out for a territorial government with a horizontal and libertarian outlook” Helmut Kramer, Candidate for Mayor of Santiago
The heat and the cold have that thing of inevitable denunciation of the unjust. When a city burns or freezes, inequality emerges and there is no way to hide it. The summer in Santiago de Chile, in addition to boiling over with inequality and mismanagement, this 2021 brings extra ingredients… »
Juan Guzmán Tapia: A Coherent Man
Over the years, the impossible becomes reality: Juan Guzmán does justice. At the cost of cutting his judicial career short, at the cost of losing promotions and opportunities typical of that office, but with the advantage of receiving, as few do in Chile, the affection of the people and the… »
“Finally Chile will approve the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons”, Tomás Hirsch
Pressenza: It seems that the legal process will begin for the approval of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Chile. It is one of the most eagerly awaited treaties by all of us who, eleven years ago now, marched around the world and called for nuclear disarmament… »
Chilean intellectuals favor opposition unity in constituent process
More than 50 artists and intellectuals demanded more unity by the opposition forces to achieve a higher representation in the Constitutional Convention to draft the new Constitution for Chile. In a public letter, 61 prominent personalities expressed their ‘deep concern about the complex scenario being faced by the wide and… »
Sinovac, Chinese vaccine for Covid-19, to be approved in Chile and Brazil
No later than January, Chilean health authorities are trying to approve the coronavirus vaccine produced by the Chinese company Sinovac, according to Heriberto Garcia, Director of the Institute of Public Health (ISP). This would be the second vaccine approved in Chile to be used in the country, after the same… »
Chile has finally overcome the Pinochet dictatorship!
Millions of Chileans have been protesting for social concerns for over a year. They called for a new constitution to leave the dark past of the Pinochet dictatorship and regime behind. In a constitutional referendum at the end of October 2020, 78% of the population… »
Chile: Liberation Performance
In front of the National Stadium, the feminist group Las Tesis Senior returned yesterday to give a performance for the liberation of the Uprising for Dignity prisoners. Women all dressed in black, with a white scarf in their hands, were synchronized with the special melody which resulted in the effect… »
6.2 magnitude quake hits off Chile coast – USGS
A 6.2-magnitude earthquake rocked the Chilean coast, the US Geological Survey has reported. It struck at a depth of 20 kilometers (12 miles). The jolt occurred late Saturday 157.4 km (97.8 miles) to the southeast of Talca, a city of around 200,000 people south of the capital, Santiago. »
Chile – Traps to the real Constitution Change
by Cecilia Capanna Tomás Hirsch, independent Chilean parliamentarian, founder of Acción Humanista and two-times candidate for the Presidency of the Republic of Chile, explains how the Yes to the referendum on 25 October could run into traps that could affect the process of rewriting… »
Hirsch calls on the Government of Chile to ratify the treaty that bans nuclear weapons
The deputy of Acción Humanista, Tomás Hirsch, called on the Chilean government to ratify the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPAN), a nuclear disarmament agreement promoted by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), the UN and various world organizations, in order to prohibit the production, testing,… »