Politics

Chile, a Left without the people is doomed to fail

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…

The left and the Chilean constitutional debate: The history of a rebellion, or the death throes of a political form

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…

On the verge of historic change

The change in the new world order will have to go beyond economic, political and military issues. It is a deeper, broader and more decisive change. Since the Greeks, since Alexander. By Edgar Chacón Morales Some millenarists might say that…

The latent outburst and constitutional impertinence

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…

Chile is between what is still dying and what is struggling to be born

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…

Questions to Sabine Rubin, former MP for France Insoumise party

In 2022, the French elected the President of the Republic and then the deputies of the National Assembly. In the last presidential and legislative elections, the abstention rate increased. However, the French are preoccupied about the future of their society:…

Generations and politics in Latin America and the Caribbean

The political forces that value human solidarity and critical thinking are astonished to see that many young people, a priori considered champions of rebellion and promoters of new visions, are manifesting themselves on the public stage by adhering to retrograde…

Chile: Feminist organisations express mistrust and vigilance towards the new constituent process: They consider its design to be anti-democratic and exclusionary

From the Coordinadora Feminista Punta Arenas, Elisa Giustinianovich, stated that there is a broad majority that has expressed its opposition to the so-called Agreement for Chile agreed by the traditional parties represented in Congress, which has led to a position…

The Waters Are Running Red in Africa’s Great Lakes Region—A War Is Raging We Can’t Ignore Any Longer

In early November, foreign ministers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Christophe Lutundula Apala Pen’Apala, and Rwanda, Vicent Biruta met in Luanda, Angola, to find a political solution to a conflict that has been ongoing in eastern DRC for…

Peace Activists Hit the Streets From D.C. to San Francisco

On September 18, President Biden warned Russian President Vladimir Putin, “Don’t. Don’t. Don’t” use nuclear weapons in retaliation for severe battlefield losses in Ukraine. While Putin dismissed Biden’s worries as unfounded, the specter of nuclear armageddon drove U.S. antiwar activists…

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