Chile

As far-right governments ramp up denialist narrative, film directors in Argentina, Chile and Brazil often set their stories in the period of the dictatorships

Folk-singer Victor Jara, murdered by Pinochet’s troops in 1973, had planned to record an album, telling the story of the 1934 massacre of peasants and Indigenous Mapuche and Pehuenche at Ránquil. He never completed the project and in the following decades repression has claimed new victims whenever the interests of large landowners were threatened.

LAB author and film-maker Marcos Colón travelled to Temuco to speak about listening to Indigenous knowledge. The conference listened. But Wallmapu asked whether listening...

Tony Corden reviews Katia Chornik’s book about the relationship between music, politics, memory, and human rights.

Debates on impunity for people convicted of heinous crimes against humanity are acquiring a new urgency in Chile, where the Senate has approved a measure which would allow convicted prisoners over the age of 70 to serve their sentences under house arrest, or have them suspended. Trials and judgements reached in Germany and Holland may provide relevant parallels.

Venezuelan poets in exile tell Piotr Kozak about their experiences of leaving their home country, their conflicted feelings towards it, and the promise and sadness of their lives abroad.

This article is reproduced from OpenDemocracy.net under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence. You can read the original here. Extremist candidate José Antonio Kast...

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’.

Amid industrial pressure and legal rollbacks, a grassroots women's network fights for ancestral marine rights and cultural survival in Chile. ‘If they take the sea...

For nearly four decades, residents of Arica, Chile, have lived with the toxic legacy of imported industrial waste. After repeated legal defeats and government...