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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

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

[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

[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

[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

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

[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

[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

[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

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