Beatrice Twentyman
Chile elections: Mapuche people feel left out
Chile’s Mapuche people hoped for better things after the election of Gabriel Boric in 2021. The extension of the Estado de Excepción has signalled a return ‘to the old discourse of the internal enemy’.
Pinochet’s 1998 arrest in London
The arrest in London of General Pinochet, with a view to his extradition to Spain on charges of crimes against humanity had an extraordinary impact in Chile, among the Chilean diaspora and around the world. Beatrice Twentyman looks at this impact.
Panama: 300 Indigenous Guna families relocated amid rising sea levels
A community of Indigenous Guna people were relocated from their island of Gardí Sugdub in the Caribbean Sea to a new mainland settlement. They are the first island community to be recognized by the government as victims of forced displacement driven by climate change.
