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Boric announces mixed pension system: “The AFPs, in this reform, are finished”.

On national television, the President of the Republic, Gabriel Boric, announced the pension reform to be introduced by his government, detailing that the project includes a mixed system, individual accounts and the end of the PFAs. The president began by…

Gloria Mujica, our own history

There are those in life who walk at our same pace, who are in the places we pass through, who chant with us the same slogans, who raise similar flags for the same decades and change them for other roles…

Democracy threatened by populism

We grew up in a time when the opposite of democracy was dictatorship. Today, in the 21st century, we face a new reality. The main threat to democracy is no longer governments backed by force of arms, but populism disguised…

Defectors in Chilean politics, an indecent spectacle

The condition of origin In Chile, democracy and its political system is based, beyond any minimally logical foundation, on a model of political parties, which has no basis for its functioning, evaluation and necessary improvement in a changing world. This…

China in the world: Proposals backed by facts

Pressenza was one of the media invited to the press conference held by the Chinese Embassy in Chile this morning. Ambassador Niu Qingbao read Xi Yinping’s report to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), held this…

Education: Putting lessons learned in pandemics into practice

There are more than five million students in primary and secondary education in more than ten thousand educational establishments in the country. The diversity is gigantic and no other state institution has the territorial coverage that education has. It is…

3 years after the revolt, Chile returns to the dirty hands of its elite

The popular revolt 2019 People in different ambits, talk about their experiences, expectations, fears in these days in which the third anniversary of the social outbreak in the cities of the country is commemorated: “I remember as if it were…

Realising human rights is the basis of democracy

Chile was elected as a member of the UN Human Rights Council; this election unleashes mixed feelings in a large part of the population. The incorporation of Chile, obtaining the first majority, requires the government to comply with what it…

Who is my neighbour?

In Santiago de Chile, there are many people who live in a street situation, either contextually due to their arrival from abroad, or because of addiction problems, gambling, etc. However, in neighbourhoods such as Providencia, Las Condes, Vitacura or Lo…

The heartbeat of indignation in Chile

In these seven months of government in the hands of President Gabriel Boric, the possibility of greater social justice is vanishing day by day. In the meantime, all the positions of political power are remaining in the party of order…

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