What is Really Going on with Lula?

What is Really Going on w/ Lula? Breaking down the facts, the lies, good & bad plus the Truth About Human Rights Nicaragua. Camila Escalante & Teri Mattson Rumble https://t.co/8rUGCW3tzi — Fiorella Isabel (@FiorellaIsabelM) March 10, 2023 Latin American governments say they don’t want foreign governments intervening in their internal affairs. Impossible to take them…

Undefeated Revolutions

On Latin America Review, Kawsachun News spoke to Francisco Dominguez, a researcher at the Middlesex University and the secretary of the Venezuelan Solidarity Campaign, who has long been a pillar of the movements in solidarity of Latin America, in the UK. Francisco, who is Chilean, spoke to Ollie about how Venezuela has managed to survive…

Chile: Mapuche Hurt by Rejection of a Plurinational Constitution

Orlando Milesi Mapuche activist Maria Hueichaqeo stands in front of the ruca (traditional Mapuche circular house) built on the Antu Mapu campus, which serves as the headquarters for the work of the Tain Adkimn Mapuche Indigenous Association, aimed at raising awareness in Chilean society of the situation of indigenous peoples and of how the Chilean…

Attacks and Failures of the Right in Latin America

Claudio Katz Bolsonarism was affected by its failed coup. Its foundations in the army, gangs, agribusiness and evangelists are shaken. What are the current perspectives of the extreme right in the continent? Recently, the right-wingers in the region have faced three important setbacks. The failed coup in Brazil was preceded by a failed coup in…

Chile 2022: The Year of Right-Wing Government

Andrés Figueroa Cornejo The last throes of 2022 have evaporated, as an unbalanced, unstable and contradictory expression of the relations of power between the interests of the ruling classes and the broad and heterogeneous movement of the struggles of the workers and the oppressed, and after the pandemic that brought the social revolt of October…

Chilean State to Address Historic Land Debt with Mapuche Indigenous Communities

Tanya Wadhwa Chilean President Gabriel Boric met with Mapuche leaders in the country’s Araucanía region on November 10 and 11. Following the meeting, he announced the creation of a special commission to return to the Mapuche communities the lands that they have historically laid claims to. The Mapuche Indigenous communities have been in conflict with…

‘NATO Methodology’ is Being Used in South American Air Force Drills

Chile, Argentina, Brazil and the United States are carrying out a multinational air exercise in South America “under NATO regulations and methodology”. The Salitre 2022 drills began this Monday will last until October 21st and is taking place between the Chilean provinces of Iquique and Antofagasta. The Chilean Air Force explained that the objective of the exercise…

Chile’s Boric Is Becoming More Right Wing by the Day

Carlos Aznárez Marcelo Osses is one of the supporters of the communication project Radio Plaza de la Dignidad [Dignity Plaza Radio] born with the 2019 revolt [in Chile]. The station has lent its voice to that plaza that thousands of young people renamed and made their own every time they needed to demonstrate. With Osses,…

Chile: The Star of the South

Gustavo Espinoza M. To make a Revolution -to achieve human liberation, it could be said- is extremely difficult. It resembles the ascent of a mountain never explored before. It is always necessary to look at the top -assured a man who knew the subject very well: Lenin-. Starting from a suitable place, choosing the route,…

Chile Seeks the Marshals of Defeat

Marco Teruggi Sunday night saw a resounding triumph for the challengers of a new Constitution that would distance the magna carta from the dictatorial traces. It was a lacerating blow for those who staged the revolts of 2019 and for the brand new government of President Gabriel Boric. However it is still unclear what the…

Chile Rejects a New and Revolutionary Constitution: Shadows of the Dictatorial Past are Imposed

Yoselina Guevara López The Chilean people demonstrated at the ballot box against the proposal of the new Constitution of Chile, with an unappealable result, according to the final official bulletin of the Electoral Service of Chile (Servel) with a 62% rejection of the constitutional project against a 38% of approval; the vote was mandatory, hence…

What Next? The Chilean People Reject the Draft Constitution

Ollantay Itzamná Plebiscite result. 2022. Chile Chile, far from rejecting a process of structural changes or rejecting the possibility of a new Political Constitution, what it is asking for is deeper structural changes and an Original Constituent Assembly. On the recent Sunday, September 4, more than 13 million Chileans (out of the 15 million eligible)…

Boric’s Chile: Change or Continuity?

Transformative or more of the same? Chilean journalist Pablo Vivanco analyzes the new government. Chileans will vote today in a referendum on a new proposed constitution. We analyzed its content on our podcast, Latin America Review. Full Interview>> Massive closing ceremony of the Apruebo campaign Redacción Chile We publish here a photo report with images…

Chile: The Promise to Re-found Carabineros Translated into Carte Blanche for Police Violence

Ximena Soza Φωτογραφία Maclox. (Image by Maclox) The President of Chile, Gabriel Boric, during his campaign promised to reform the country’s uniformed police. This promise was well received by the citizenry, as a response to the discrediting of the institution, not only the historical one, due to its role during the military dictatorship, but also…

Chile’s Lithium Provides Profit to the Billionaires but Exhausts the Land and the People

Vijay Prashad, Taroa Zuniga Silva A lithium mine in northern Chile (Photo: Andrew O’Brien) About a third of the world’s lithium comes from Chile. The needs of the people of Chile seem to only come after the needs of the large corporations. The Atacama salt flat in northern Chile, which stretches 1,200 square miles, is the…

The Pseudo-Left, Defenders of NATO, and the Clarity of Indefinition

Oleg Yasinsky Thus, for about 30 years, a hologram of democracy was destroying our so imperfect, so bureaucratic and so human socialism. I believe that therein lies the main reason why our democratic anti-authoritarian left today is so undemocratic, so authoritarian and has so little left, left. Several militants of the contemporary Russian left have…

Fascism in Chile

Jorge Molina “Fascism is cured by reading and racism is cured by travelling”. – Miguel de Unamuno The “Freedom Bus”, travelling through the streets of several Chilean cities with phrases such as “Boys have penises. Girls have vulvas. Don’t be fooled”, against the “gender ideology”, rejecting abortion and the laws in favour of gender identity…

Chile: The Unfinished Revolution

Juan Pablo Cárdenas Social upheaval, revolt and revolution What we Chileans had in October 2018 was a great social outburst. A broad and national manifestation of acute discontent that was expressed in cities, avenues and even towns all over the country. An unrest that did not hesitate to destroy temples, heritage buildings and emblematic monuments,…