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Competition is poisoning our hearts

Since the social outburst of October 2019, our country has been on a rollercoaster of events and emotions. Democracy has shown signs of strength because the institutions have fulfilled their role, but it has also shown a dark side in…

How far to the left will Boric want to go?

President Gabriel Boric is confident that his Tax Reform will find the broadest support in the National Congress. If we take into account the current political make-up of the Legislative Branch, this means that this initiative would have to be…

Democratic constitution, guaranteed rights and an active state

The Constitutional Convention has fulfilled its task. It opened the doors of democracy, allowing women and men in parity, native peoples, young people, representatives of the regions and those who had never participated in the country’s decisions, to deliberate in…

Mayor of Padre Hurtado and gun ownership: “We have only one option: to disarm Chile”.

Felipe Muñoz Heredia said that given the situation it is imperative to go deeper into the issue of gun ownership. He also called for an increase in the number of police officers in the commune, which currently has 65 officers…

A historic process: thank you, constituents!

After a historic process where it was not the political class installed decades ago, but the nations that make up Chile who decided to give us a new Constitution; after a democratic and parity election; independent of the result, of…

The media-constitutional terrorism of Rejection in Chile: Fake News Carnival

“Most of the polls will say every day, until the last one, that the Rejection wins; that’s what they are paid for. If they instill fear in you, there is nothing left to do but, as in the dictatorship, overcome…

I approve or reject, dangerous dichotomy

While it is difficult for us to have a “government of the people”, we could at least aspire to it being “with the people” and “for the people”. Certainly, those who have reached La Moneda belong predominantly to a generation…

Decentralising power in Chile

Yesterday President Boric transferred the presidency of the Regional Committee for the Use of the Coastal Zone to the Regional Governments, taking a decisive step toward the decentralisation of power in this matter. This is a “historic decentralising transfer, which…

How free are we to decide?

We have a new decision ad portas, this time for the approval or rejection of a proposal for a new Constitution drafted by a group of 154 people (there were 155 but one left because he lied about his health…

Chile: “Marcha del Orgullo de Género” (Gender Pride March)

Text and photos: Riccardo Marinai Once again, the diversity and sexual difference event has taken place in the LGBTIQ+ Pride tour along the Alameda amidst multicolours, joy and music. Little by little, diversity and sexual difference groups have conquered an…

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