Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by GAUDICHAUD Frank, REYGADA Luis
As head of state since March 2022, elected with the hope of reorienting his country on the path of progressivism, Chile’s young president Gabriel Boric (38) seems rather to have refocused his politics, unable to compete with the conservative bloc or to unite the left around his government. At (…)
, by NOHALES Karina
On 17 December 2023, Chile voted against the proposed new constitution drafted by the conservative forces of the right and ultra-right. Thus, for the second time in fourteen months, two opposing alternatives to replace the country’s existing constitution which had its origin in the Pinochet (…)
, by HEINE Jorge
It’s hard to overestimate the role Henry Kissinger played in Chile. A former Chilean diplomat describes the mark that the powerful statesman made in his country and elsewhere in the Global South.
Noticing my nonappearance at the start of a black-tie dinner at the Johannesburg home of Harry (…)
, by FIDLER Richard
This year, on September 11, we mark the 50th anniversary of the coup in Chile. The violent military overthrow of the Popular Unity government put an end to a turbulent experiment in the parliamentary road to socialism initiated with the presidential election of Salvador Allende just three years (…)
, by EVANS Brad
State-sponsored disappearance plays into the most primal of human fears – to vanish without a trace. The modern era started with Chile’s US-backed coup on September 11 1973
For the few remaining women of Calama in Chile’s Atacama desert, September 11 holds a terrifying meaning. They understand (…)
, by AMADOR Roberto González, TOUSSAINT Éric
The coup against the government of Chile’s constitutionally elected president Salvador Allende, which marks its fiftieth anniversary this year, brought to a brutal and violent stop the course of several Latin American countries towards welfare states and sovereignty over their own natural (…)
, by MENDOZA Oscar
AS THE DATE nears when we’ll be marking half a century since the overthrow of the Salvador Allende government in Chile on September 11th, I’m taken back to that gray drizzly day when the future we had dreamt of disappeared in a wave of violence, death and repression. Fifty years on from the (…)
, by BENSAÏD Daniel, KELLAWAY Dave
This September marks the 50th anniversary of the US backed coup by Pinochet in Chile. It was one of the heaviest and bloodiest defeats ever suffered by the left and progressive movement in Latin America. There are a number of events being organised in Britain this year to remember and discuss (…)
, by STEWART Christopher
Chilean President Gabriel Boric was vocal in urging other Latin American nations to condemn Russia, decrying those who “don’t want to say it’s a war in Ukraine.”
President Gabriel Boric of Chile has condemned Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine and called out nations refusing to also voice (…)
, by FUENTES Pedro, MAGALHÃES Bruno
The victory of the Rejection option on the wording of the new Chilean Constitution has raised a number of questions for internationalists. How is it possible that the struggle for the new Constitution, that was demanded by the mass popular revolt of 2019 and which was followed by a resounding (…)
, by KATZ Tristan
Two months after his election, Gabriel Boric seems to be the president of a world that no longer exists. Buoyed by hopes of renovating the political system with the constituent process, he is the result of a quid pro quo between democratic demands and the echo of the social explosion of October (…)
, by WEBBER Jeffery R.
Premature obituaries of Chilean neoliberalism abound on the heels of the December 19 run-off presidential election. Gabriel Boric of Apruebo Dignidad (Approve Dignity, AD) – a coalition of the Frente Amplio (Broad Front, FA) and the Partido Comunista de Chile (Communist Party of Chile, PCC) – (…)
, by BLAIR Laurence
The decisive victory reflects Chileans’ revolt against a threadbare welfare system and a society systematically stacked in the favour of the rich
At the age of 14, Gabriel Boric – the great-grandson of a Croatian migrant and an avid reader of Marx and Hegel – formed a city-wide student union (…)
, by KELLAWAY Dave
Dave Kellaway takes a look at the first round presidential election results in Chile.
Following Pinochet’s US supported fascist coup in 1973 up to 30,000 were killed or “disappeared” in Chile. Gradually 17 years later there was a managed democratic transition led by centre right and left of (…)
, by GOICOVIC DONOSO Igor
We are approaching the transitional resolution of the crisis unleashed by the popular sectors in October 2019. And it is possible that it will be resolved in the worst possible way.
Two years after the popular revolt of October 2019, Chilean society has been summoned, once again, to a mega (…)
, by GOICOVIC DONOSO Igor
The crisis of the system of domination in Chile inaugurated by the popular revolt of October 2019 continues with an ever more uncertain outcome. The result of the different electoral events (for delegates to the constitutional convention, governors, mayors, and councillors) of the weekend of (…)
, by GAUDICHAUD Frank
Since Sunday night, the Chilean press is piling on the superlatives in its attempt to describe the political earthquake that has shaken the country from the Andes to the Atacama desert to the cold Magallanes region: an electoral shock, the collapse of the traditional parties, a ‘night of the (…)
, by ABUFOM Pablo, NOHALES Karina
The popular will has been forcefully expressed in a historic plebiscite. Rather than a finishing point, this huge triumph should represent the signal for starting the construction of a new Chile.
Last Sunday, 25 October, a historic plebiscite took place in Chile. The people went to the polls, (…)
, by FUENTES Federico, STEDILE Miguel Enrique
In memory of Marta Harnecker, who passed away on June 14, 2019.
During an interview, then-Bolivia Vice-President Álvaro García Linera and Spanish state parliamentarian Pablo Iglesias were exchanging ideas on classic texts and their own initiation into politics when the Spanish activist (…)
, by WEBBER Jeffery R.
I.
Chile was out of step with Latin American leftward-bending trends in the closing days of the last century and the opening salvos of the present one. Partly, this had to do with the fact that the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet from 1973 to 1990 so unambiguously terrorized and (…)
Twitter
Facebook