DINA: Pinochet’s Directorate for Murder and Torture
“There are three sources of power in Chile: Pinochet, God and DINA.” Chilean intelligence officer, remarks to a US military attaché, 1974 Decree 521 of the Chilean government of June…
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Walt Disney and Salvador Allende Are Still Fighting for Our Souls
This year marks the anniversaries of two drastically different events that loomed all too large in my life. The first occurred a century ago in Hollywood: on October 16, 1923,…
Brief for Murder: Pinochet’s Apologists Five Decades On
During the Cold War, assassinations most foul were entertained as necessary measures to advance the set cause. In Latin America, military regimes were keenly sponsored as reliably brutal antidotes to…
Pinochet’s coup in Chile – 50 years on
Dr Francisco Dominguez reflects on the 1973 overthrow of democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende and the long shadow of neoliberalism On the cold morning of September 11, 50 years…
Australian Labor Government Lying On 50th Anniversary Of 9/11 US- & Australia-Backed 1973 Chilean Coup
On 11 September 1973 the democratically-elected Chilean Government was removed in a deadly US-backed Coup by the fascist Chilean military. The Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) was involved as a…
Destroying Chilean Democracy: Australia’s Covert Role Five Decades On
The tear-squeeze remembering those who died in the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington has become an annual event. In the words of US President George W.…
Union Activists Call on AFL-CIO to Disclose Chile Coup Involvement
Making good on their promise at yesterday’s teach-in commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1973 US-sponsored coup in Chile in which the AFL-CIO played an active role bringing dictator Augusto…
Teach-In on the 50th Anniversary of the Brutal Chilean Coup
September 11 is an ominous day for Americans who well remember the horrific events that unfolded in New York in 2001 and what eventually became the War on Terror. But…
‘Chile Needs a Communist Party’
An Interview With Lautaro Carmona, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Chile by Taroa Zúñiga Silva and Vijay Prashad On August 31, 2023, the President of the Communist Party of Chile…
In Chile, Having a Good Constitution Doesn’t Guarantee Social Change
A conversation with Bárbara Navarrete, secretary-general of the Communist Youth of Chile. “We are a generation totally interested in taking power,” says Bárbara Navarrete, the new secretary-general of the Communist Youth of…
Fifty Years After Chile’s Coup, the First Year of Popular Unity
Ten days after the 1973 coup against the Popular Unity (UP) government of President Salvador Allende, the military opened the Río Chico concentration camp on Dawson Island, located in the Strait of…
The Bewildering Vote in Chile That Rejected a New Constitution
by Taroa Zúñiga Silva and Vijay Prashad On September 4, 2022, more than 13 million Chileans—out of a voting-eligible population of approximately 15 million—voted on a proposal to introduce a new…
Chile: Rejection of New Constitution — Paradox of Democracy? Or, Wait and Watch?
62% of voters in Chile rejected the proposed constitution last Sunday. It may seem paradoxical. How could they reject a constitution that would guarantee 50% reservation for women; Education, Health…
Labor and Workers’ Rights Are at the Heart of Chile’s New Constitutional Convention
Even the workers in the Constitutional Convention process are themselves organizing a union. On March 13, 2022, two days after Gabriel Boric was sworn in as the president of Chile, Minister General…
Chile’s Process of Change
The 2021 presidential election in Chile has resulted in the victory of the left candidate Gabriel Boric. With nearly 56% of the vote, he has won by a margin of…
Left-wing Victory in Chile
The 2021 presidential election in Chile has resulted in the victory of the Left candidate Gabriel Boric. With nearly 56% of the vote, he has won by a margin of more than…
Left Smiles in Chile
In the age of rising tide of neoliberal authoritarianism and populist reactionary religious politics, the electoral victory of left brings smiles to all progressive forces beyond Chile. The people of…
Chile: another good-sized nail in neoliberalism’s coffin
Men [and women]make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and…
Gabriel Boric, Speech as President-elect
We publish here in full the speech with which Gabriel Boric Font thanks the people of Chile for the enormous vote received, which makes him the youngest President the country…
Historic Win For Leftist Gabriel Boric in Chile Presidential Election
Apruebo Dignidad candidate Gabriel Boric has won Chile's presidential elections in a historic victory for the Left in Latin America. Left-wing former student leader Gabriel Boric has beat out far-right candidate Jose…
Chile Is at the Political Crossroads: Social Renewal or Decades of Painful Neoliberal Policy
by Vijay Prashad & Taroa Zúñiga Silva “If [Augusto] Pinochet were alive, he would vote for me,” said José Antonio Kast in 2017, during the Chilean presidential election when he ran as…
Chile Is at the Dawn of a New Political Era
“It feels like we are at the end of an era,” Bárbara Sepúlveda tells me on October 12, 2021. Sepúlveda is a member of Chile’s Constitutional Convention and of the…
The Other 9/11: Salvador Allende and Chile
On September 11 the world rightly pays homage to the nearly 3000 victims of the horrible 9/11 attack in the USA. However on this day we should in addition also…
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