Chile

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…

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…

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…

A burst or explosion occurs when a mixture of chemical compounds reacts and the resulting compounds occupy a significantly larger volume than the first. A violent expansion then occurs in order to rearrange the elements and give the necessary space…

Today, 15 May, World Day of the Family, we would like to invite you to reflect on a more humane, broad and convergent proposal. The family, historically, has been part of a “social fabric” of support and containment. Community networks:…

After a few days, we have heard different interpretations of what happened with the election of constitutional councilors, where perspectives are polarised between those who proclaim their elitism, degrading the direct participation of ordinary people and those of us who…

To date, in Chile there are 11 completed femicides and 72 attempted femicides, according to data from the National Service for Women and Gender Equality, in a statistic that does not stop and that is advancing dramatically. This escalation of…

We will be proposing a procedural vision with a broader context than the one that is usually used to view this type of analysis. The aim is to take a social-historical look and try to discover how the era imprints…

Although in their electoral evaluations, political parties tend to ignore their defeats and always express their squeamishness about the winners, this time in Chile no one failed to appreciate the resounding triumph of the Republican Party and the right-wing as…

My women are all of us… inevitably broken, broken, dismantled, recomposed, reinvented, graceful and with wings, many wings. Some are powerful, clear, strong and joyful. Others, a little sad and tired… they give their all. And in this giving their…