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Chile: My life has been beautiful…

I was born in a Diaguita territory, in the inlet of Tequirque on the hill of Kokimpu in 1964, I have lived in Coquimbo all my life and I am the creator of some musical instruments with South-Andean influences in…

Organisations demonstrate children’s rights in the constitution.

Movimiento Movilizándonos mobilised in favour of the rights of children and adolescents in the Magna Carta. While in the former National Congress, the Commission of Experts presented the preliminary draft and took over the Constitutional Council to develop the new…

“Put Yourselves in My Place”: Migrants and their Defenders in Chile Call for a Policy Shift

By Maxine Lowy In a house of a verdant upscale neighborhood of Santiago, Chile, Nancy accompanies a retiree. In Venezuela she was a nurse, until basic materials- alcohol, cotton, syringes, and food to prepare healthy meals for patients- became scarce,…

Chile – defeats, challenges and hopes. Interview with Tomás Hirsch

On Sunday 7 May, elections were held in Chile for the Constitutional Council, which will have to prepare a new draft Constitution, after the previous one, very advanced in many aspects, was rejected in the referendum of September 2022. The…

Codelco creates two subsidiaries to articulate state role in lithium industry

Chile’s National Copper Corporation (Codelco) today presented two new companies created to explore and exploit lithium in the Andean country, which will articulate the state’s role in the national lithium strategy launched by the government last month. Codelco’s board of…

Euthanasia – Specialists discuss the right to decide on one’s own life in the face of untreatable illnesses

The recent death of human rights activist Cecilia Heyder, who was terminally ill and had fought for years for the right to a dignified death, has reignited the debate on the need for a euthanasia law in Chile. Specialists from…

Learning to discern in a world intoxicated with information

The word intoxication refers to the ingestion, inhalation or skin contact with tangible products that cause serious physical injury or death. These are harmful chemicals in the form of drugs, poisons, gases, etc. More recently, a variant has been introduced…

Chile, a Left without the people is doomed to fail

Nearly two weeks after the election of the Convention of Conventions, with an overwhelming victory for the Chilean ultra-right, I share six reflections with the aim of contributing to the analysis of the political scenario that is opening up for…

“Protected areas without salmon farms”: Joint Parliamentary Committee and critical points of the draft law for nature (SBAP)

Commission to resolve a critical point of the SBAP bill related to industrial concessions in protected areas Bill creating the Biodiversity and Protected Areas Service (SBAP) in Joint Parliamentary Committee The Joint Commission is to resolve disputes between the two…

The left and the Chilean constitutional debate: The history of a rebellion, or the death throes of a political form

Chile’s political form expired on 18 October 2019, when huge protests erupted over an increase in public transport, which later turned into a real social explosion. By Gilberto Lopes, in San José, Costa Rica This is what Fernando Atria, a…

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