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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 (...)
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 (...)
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) – (...)
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 in (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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, (...)
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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 (...)
As is the case everywhere, the big news in Chile is the rapidly escalating coronavirus contagion. But just last October, Chile’s neoliberal order was shaken to its core when a popular revolt exploded, detonating general strikes, occupations, and mass mobilizations. Pushed into a corner, the (...)
Chilean president Sebastián Piñera declared on television on 8 October 2019 that “Chile is a real oasis in a convulsed Latin America”. In fact, Chile has been presented to the world for almost thirty years as a model to be exported and an example of neoliberal stability. The key to “success” was (...)
Mapuche protesters in south launch attacks on symbols of Spanish colonial rule and distant government in Santiago
As peaceful protesters and rioters alike have thronged the streets of the Chilean capital of Santiago to protest against inequality and state repression, a string of no less (...)
Interview with Frank Gaudichaud
By Jean Baptiste Thomas and Julien Anchaing
Translation by Héctor A. Rivera
Révolution Permanente: According to mainstream analysts and economists, Chile was an island of stability and prosperity in Latin America. In view of the current mobilizations, how do (...)
“Cuchara de palo frente a tus balazos
y al toque de queda… Cacerolazo”
(Ana Tijoux[1])
I arrived in Santiago on October 23, 2019, the morning on which the General Strike began, which was called after the protests that exploded spontaneously a few days earlier. The city still smelled of tear gas (...)
ALL SUPPORT TO THE CHILEAN PEOPLE: NOT ONLY 30 PESOS! BELOW THE CURFEW! AGAINST THE ABUSES OF PIÑERA!
Chile is considered an example for the Bolsonaro government and the Brazilian business community. Some political sectors of our country envy the Chilean economic model, which they call “Latin (...)
Chile’s protest movement is the largest in a generation and it doesn’t just want economic reforms – it wants to overturn the legacy of the Pinochet dictatorship.
This weekend saw the largest demonstrations in Chile since the return of democracy. In Santiago, more than a million people took to (...)
Chile has exploded in social protests for the past several days, initially ignited by an increase in the metro fare. The initial protests developed into a national strike, even though conservative President Sebastián Piñera rescinded the four percent increase in subway fares last Saturday and (...)
The social explosion that began on October 18 against the increase in Santiago Metro fares has much deeper causes, causing social mobilization in all regions of the country. Chilean society has grown tired of the few living at the expense of the majority and any social cost falling on the poor. (...)
At the beginning of last week an increase in fares was announced for the Santiago subway, a fundamental means of transport in this city, which unleashed a wave of protests led by the students who called for days of “subway evasion”. Subway evasions were harshly suppressed by police inside the (...)
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