Chile

The young leaders of Gabriel Boric’s government only know by hearsay or by reading about the administrations of a Frei Montalva, Salvador Allende and Augusto Pinochet himself. You need to be 60 or 70 years old to have been a…

Different political sectors, as well as citizens, supported the Chilean President. One of them, Senator Daniel Núñez (PC), said that “what is ‘serious’ and ‘disconcerting’ is that while Israel implements a policy of extermination of the Palestinians, its foreign ministry…

With automatic registration and compulsory voting, 85% of citizens voted in the exit plebiscite that rejected the Constitutional proposal. This high voter turnout gives great legitimacy to the result and to the republican institutions. But the fact that voting is…

The cabinet reshuffle just implemented by President Gabriel Boric was one of the most embarrassing ceremonies in our institutional system in living memory. The lack of tidiness of some of his collaborators led the Head of State to appoint a…

Results and impacts on present and future politics It is highly unlikely that there will not be a shift towards a strengthening of the neoliberal model in the ambits of political power. In this scenario, the question is whether this…

It was very early in the morning when I heard the first shots, right in front of the building in the centre of Santiago where I lived. When I turned on the radio, I began to become aware of the…

As Napoleon Bonaparte said in 1807 in the framework of the Peace of Tilsit “Victory has 100 fathers and defeat is an orphan”, so the post-election reaction after the crushing victory of the Rejectionist option needs to be removed from…

The day before yesterday Chile lived through what some are calling the biggest triumph of the right wing in its electoral history. Almost 62% of its population rejected the constitutional change project, which only two years ago was demanded by…

We interviewed the humanist Deputy Tomás Hirsch to know his vision of the failure at the ballot box of the constitutional project plebiscited this Sunday in Chile, in an attempt to reflect as broadly as possible on the matter. Why…

The South American country is living a historic day capable of transforming its future. The future of Chile is being debated today, Sunday, between preserving a constitutional text – agreed and written during the dictatorship – or shaping a new…