A 25-year-old American was killed, along with the former Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier, as part of Operation Condor, a secret U.S.-backed campaign of terror against Latin American leftists, Brett Wilkins…
Kast’s agenda will not eliminate unrest but may postpone it for a while, only to sharpen its eventual return to the streets.
“It is a political and ethical earthquake,” says acclaimed Chilean American writer Ariel Dorfman.
José Antonio Kast, who has promised historic tax cuts and a tougher immigration policy, will be Chile’s next president. Center-left candidate Jeanette Jara has conceded defeat.
In the 2000s and 2010s Chileans began resolving the Crisis of Representation through protest, song, and dance. Recent political setbacks do not detract from this.
Walt Disney and Salvador Allende Are Still Fighting for Our Souls
Fifty years after coup that delivered Pinochet power, thousands still grieve the children stolen during his rule
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Imagine this scenario. On 11 September 1973, the reactionary sections of the Chilean army, led by General Augusto Pinochet and given…
By Melvin Goodman / CounterPunch “Chile is a dagger pointed at the heart of Antarctica.” – Henry A. Kissinger. Our 240 years of history have not produced a more controversial…
The Mapuche Indigenous communities have been in conflict with the Chilean State over land in the country’s Araucanía region for over a century.
Political and social leaders across the political spectrum have called for a new constitutional convention to be convened, pointing out that the text of the proposed constitution was rejected, not…
