The phrase that titles this article is not mine. It is from Sebastián Piñera himself and was uttered in 2009 to “celebrate” the death of Mónica Madariaga, former head of Justice during the dictatorship, who in a television interview said that on instructions from the “military government ” and after the intervention of José Piñera, Sebastián’s brother and Pinochet’s labor ...
I write this week from Chile where I attended an international seminar organized by the Municipality of Recoleta, the XXI Constituent Foundation and other organizations to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the fall in combat of President Allende and the enthronement of the fascist civil-military dictatorship that established itself in this country for the duration of 17 years. A gloomy ...
A country’s revolutionary past looms over its contemporary days, when there is a change of government. Even more so, when the losing candidate affirms explicitly and positively the counterrevolutionary forces. And even more so, when the winner represents the Left. And if he is a young president of only 35 years with strong roots in the radical street protest movements, ...
Following a referendum in October 2020, a Constitutional Assembly was established in Chie, whose members were elected by the population in May 2021. The Assembly has the task to develop a draft for a new constitution, which after being approved by the Assembly itself, will be presented to a referendum. This is expected for 2022. Left-wing candidate Gabriel Boric won ...
Chile has elected its new president. Gabriel Boric Font has received 56% of the votes in the second round, while the other candidate, José Antonio Kast ended with 44%, while 99% of the votes have been counted. Voters participation has increased 8% in comparison to the first election round, reaching with 56% the highest level since mandatory vote was abolished ...
Chile is heading to the second round of presidential election on December 19. The two remaining candidates, right wing Jose Antonio Kast and left wing Gabriel Boric had concluded first and second in the first round, where the former received 28 and the latter 26% percent of the votes. But in the background of the elections, another process takes places ...
By Tony López* The Condor Plan was conceived to maintain the power of Washington, in those countries of the South American cone and when these criminal policies were fought and popularly repudiated and lost their usefulness, the United States changed strategy and tactics. It is from there, that Washington practices the philosophy of “ do what I say, but not ...
On October 19, 2021, it had been two years since the social outbreak that shocked Chile and surprised the whole world that, at that time, held the trans-Andean nation as “the model”, as it was in the words of President Sebastián Piñera: “An oasis” in the chaotic Latin American desert. In this article we are going to review the causes ...
On May 15th and 16th, municipal elections were held in Chile together with the election of the delegates who will be tasked with drafting a new Constitution of the State. The electoral process is the institutional canalization of the October 2019 protests. The results exposed a epochal shift in the country’s history. Who are the winners and who are the ...
Chile’s geography is very interesting. The country is thousands of miles long, but it is stuck in a narrow piece of land. On one side are the magnificent Andes, and on the other side is the Pacific Ocean. Between them is a thin country that stretches from the border with Peru in the north to the South Pole. Because of ...