Chile

Experts from the faculties of Medicine, Law and Economics at the University of Chile agree that the country should move towards a different health care system, with a single insurer at the centre, a large Fonasa (National Health Fund). The…

Faced with the existing human housing crisis in the country, which causes a level of indignity and daily pain in millions of people, the failed state, in the hands of the political elite, takes a line that coincides with its…

Article 1 of the Constitution states that “people are born free and equal in dignity and rights”. Article 4 of the 2022 constitutional proposal stated that “People are born and remain free, interdependent and equal in dignity and rights”. Today,…

In his first public statement of 2022, Boric said: “I want to be emphatic in this, we must take responsibility for addressing the inequalities that citizens live and that are expressed in multiple dimensions. I want us to build a…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…