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The Economist Spreads Misinformation on the Chilean Constitutional Process and Should Apologise

The Economist Spreads Misinformation on the Chilean Constitutional Process and Should Apologise

The Economist’s defence of the Pinochet constitution is consistent with its ideological stance; the problem is when a media outlet of this international stature...

Piñera Appoints Pinochet Dictatorship Official Minister of Labour

Piñera Appoints Pinochet Dictatorship Official Minister of Labour

On Wednesday, 7 April, Chilean president Sebastián Piñera appointed Patricio Melero, a representative of the far right and former official in the dictatorship o...

Protests against police brutality marked the day in different regions of Chile

Protests against police brutality marked the day in different regions of Chile

[resumen.cl] After de murder of the street-artist Francisco Martínez by a policeman yesterday in Panguipulli, people in different regions of the country protest...

Indignation in Chile for the murder of an street-artist by police

Indignation in Chile for the murder of an street-artist by police

[resumen.cl] After the murder of the young street artist Francisco Martínez Romero by a policeman of Carabineros, protesters installed barricades in Panguipulli...

Mapuche Political Prisoners: 112 days on Hunger Strike without Response from Chilean government

Mapuche Political Prisoners: 112 days on Hunger Strike without Response from Chilean government

[resumen.cl] On August 18 was announced that Celestino Córdova had ended his lengthy hunger strike after reaching an agreement with the Chilean government. Howe...

Mapuche Political Prisoners on Hunger Strike for 75 Days without Response from Chilean President Piñera

Mapuche Political Prisoners on Hunger Strike for 75 Days without Response from Chilean President Piñera

Life or Death: That is the situation of the eight Mapuche political prisoners in Angol prison, in the Chilean region of Araucanía, who have now been on hunger s...

Nationwide protest marks first night in March in Chile

Nationwide protest marks first night in March in Chile

[resumen.cl] Cacerolazos (traditional Latin American form of protest in which people make noise with pots and pans to demand the resignation of a government) ha...

Civilians Exit Private Vehicle Driven by Man in Military Police Uniform and Brutally Beat Two Demonstrators

Civilians Exit Private Vehicle Driven by Man in Military Police Uniform and Brutally Beat Two Demonstrators

[resumen.cl] An exceedingly concerning incident occurred at approximately 11.15 PM this Monday in the Remodelación Eleuterio Ramírez neighbourhood of Concepción...

Social organisations in Chile reject the ‘peace agreement’ of the discredited political class and call for mobilisations to continue

Social organisations in Chile reject the ‘peace agreement’ of the discredited political class and call for mobilisations to continue

[resumen.cl] After what the political class characterised as an ‘Agreement for Peace and a New Constitution’, various social organisations and movements announc...

Chilean A & E Departments Report More than 8,000 Cases Nationally since 18 October

Chilean A & E Departments Report More than 8,000 Cases Nationally since 18 October

Hours before Chilean president Sebastián Piñera announced a series of measures intended to intensify the criminalisation and persecution of the social mobilizat...

From the Social Agenda to the Repression Agenda: Sebastián Piñera Takes Refuge in the Hard Right

From the Social Agenda to the Repression Agenda: Sebastián Piñera Takes Refuge in the Hard Right

by Joaquín Hernández / translated by A.B. Silvera Following the publication of the latest Pulso Ciudadano (‘Citizen’s Pulse’) poll, in which Sebastián Piñera he...

Chile under the Dictatorship of Piñera

Chile under the Dictatorship of Piñera

The announcements and statements made  by president Piñera show, clearly and eloquently, that the president and his government have no intention of seeking to a...

Solidarity with the people of Chile: Dockworkers' Union ready to block Chilean cargo in ports worldwide

Solidarity with the people of Chile: Dockworkers' Union ready to block Chilean cargo in ports worldwide

The International Dockworkers Council (IDC), with more than 120,000 workers and 93 affiliated unions worldwide, express their most absolute solidarity with the ...

Human Rights Report: 2,138 Arrests and 346 Wounded in Chile

Human Rights Report: 2,138 Arrests and 346 Wounded in Chile

[resumen.cl] A new report released at midday this Wednesday put figures for arrests at 2,138 and wounded at 376. Of the 2,138 people arrested, 898 are in Santia...

Not Even a Dent: How Piñera’s Statement Insulted the Chilean Public

Not Even a Dent: How Piñera’s Statement Insulted the Chilean Public

President Piñera’s announcement last night of a so-called “social agenda”, his proposed series of solutions to the current crisis, does not translate into any c...

Internacional Disgrace: Police Attack World Climate March in Concepción, Chile

Internacional Disgrace: Police Attack World Climate March in Concepción, Chile

[resumen.cl] The Climate March, part of the Friday for Future campaign, is a mobilisation called for by activist Greta Thunberg that seeks to raise awareness of...

What’s the English for ‘Caeza’e pichí’? Chileans reply en masse to Donald Trump’s Instagram

What’s the English for ‘Caeza’e pichí’? Chileans reply en masse to Donald Trump’s Instagram

The most recent instagram post from Donald Trump has been flooded with thousands of replies saying "cabeza de pichi" or "cabeza‘e pichí", almost all written by ...

Chilean military police murder another Mapuche community member

Chilean military police murder another Mapuche community member

[resumen.cl] ‘Police enter firing indiscriminately at community members. A Mapuche man is reportedly in serious condition due to a police-inflicted gunshot woun...

Mapuche families in Alto Biobío respond to eviction order: ‘We will not leave the territory’

Mapuche families in Alto Biobío respond to eviction order: ‘We will not leave the territory’

[resumen.cl] A group of Mapuche families (of the Pehuenche group) in the Infiernillo area of 'Trapa Trapa', Alto Biobío district, is facing an eviction threat. ...