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Remembering Allende and his project ‘Cybersyn’
FIFTY years back, Pinochet’s coup destroyed Allende’s government and the structure of liberal democracy in Chile. Allende died with a machine gun in his hands, defending his attempt to build socialism in Chile against the combined power of the U.S. and the forces of reaction in Chile, including the military.
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Chile today: massive march and repression
It is 50 years since the coup d’état and there is an important generational change on the streets, many thousands of young people who feel the need to express their discomfort with society, to express their pain at the breakdown of democracy and all that followed.
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Salvador Allende’s last words to the nation
“History is ours, and people make history.”
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Chile: This is how they killed Allende
For the 50th anniversary of the coup d’état in Chile against the then president, Salvador Allende, analysis and publications are flourishing.
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What if there had been no coup in Chile in 1973?: The Thirty-Sixth Newsletter (2023)
As Chile’s people, led by the Popular Unity government, took control over their economic and political lives and worked hard to improve their social and cultural worlds, they sent a flare into the sky announcing the great possibilities of socialism.
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Dossier no. 68: The coup against the Third World: Chile, 1973
The relationship between Chile, the curtailment of its socialist reforms, and the ongoing processes in other countries in the region and in the Global South more generally have been systematically erased in Chile, from official historiography and media narratives alike.
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Southern Hemisphere sees unprecedented summer-like winter
The current temperature is between 10 and 20 degrees Celsius above what is normal for this time of year in parts of Chile and Argentina.
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Chile pushes authoritarian police law
Chile’s neoliberal government is close to securing a new law that expands the right of security forces to use firearms against the population. The Naín-Retamal Law, a proposal of the executive branch, was today approved by the Senate for a third and final reading.
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Chile: in memory of Carlos and Pinochet’s caravan of death
Every dawn, during my daily walk to the foothills of the Andes, I pass by the Tobalaba Aerodrome, a facility that caters to a wide variety of private aircraft. In a year marking the 50th anniversary of the coup against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende, that airport arouses less affable feelings.
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Neruda was assassinated with a biological weapon, nephew denounces
Rodolfo Reyes, a lawyer and nephew of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, charged on Tuesday that the reports from two laboratories in Canada and Denmark confirm the assassination of the Nobel Prizewinner for Literature with a biological weapon.
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Mapuche Political Prisoners Hunger Strike Reaches Critical Stage
Nine political prisoners of the Mapuche people in southern Chile have been on hunger strike since November 27. Now, their protest has reached a dangerous and crucial moment.
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Murder on Embassy Row—46 years on: Remembering the assassination of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt
On the morning of September 21, 1976, a car bomb took the lives of Orlando Letelier, Minister of Foreign Relations and Ambassador to the U.S. under Chile’s socialist president Salvador Allende (1970-1973), and Ronni Karpen Moffitt, a 25-year-old fundraiser for the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), a left-wing think-tank in Washington, D.C.
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Chile rejects a new and revolutionary Constitution: Shadows of the dictatorial past are imposed
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 the participation has exceeded 13 million voters.
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Boric, the promise to re-found Carabineros and the support that ended up being carte blanche for police violence
The President of Chile, Gabriel Boric, during his campaign promised to reform the country’s uniformed police.
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Chile’s president-elect Boric reiterates his contempt for besieged Nicaragua and Venezuela
Gabriel Boric, president-elect of Chile, considers that the leftist governments headed by President Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela and Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua “have failed.”
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Salvador Allende’s Grandson Responds to Boric: The Human Rights Double Standard and ‘Chic’ Leftism
Doctor Sepúlveda Allende’s open letter to Boric is translated and reproduced.
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Relief for Boric’s victory. Uncertainty regarding the social democratization of his discourse
At 35 years of age, Gabriel Boric is the youngest president-elect (he will be 36 when he takes office on March 11) and the most voted in Chilean history, with an unprecedented 55% of electoral participation.
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Chile is at the dawn of a new political era
The search for the new era in Chile has two important avenues: the writing of the new constitution, which is what the 155 members of the Constitutional Convention are doing, and the presidential election to be held on November 21, 2021.
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The communal cooking pot
In Chile, community food networks and mutual aid tell us that the revolution starts close to home writes Jumanah Younis
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Progressive forces win majority of seats in Chile’s Constitutional Convention
Independent and progressive candidates won more than a two-thirds majority in the Constitutional Convention, a body responsible for writing Chile’s new constitution.