While the Piñera government attempts to repair the economy by rapidly moving the country out of lock-down, opinion is polarised regarding constitutional reform and the campaign to oppose constitutional change is backed by the police.
This article was published by Pagina 12 on 11 September. You can read the original (in Spanish) here. It...
Part 1
Aug 5, 12:12 AM 1:5421:32 In the first part of this season, James Dean Bradfield looks at the influence of Chilean musician and revolutionary singer Victor Jara on modern music.From lyrical references by the likes of U2, Calaxico and The Clash to an album dedication from Simple...
Britain and the Dictatorships of Argentina and Chile 1973-82: Foreign Policy, Corporations and Social Movements by Grace Livingstone, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. ISBN: 978-3-030-08666-4
Reviewed for LAB by Pablo Bradbury
Ask anyone active in the British left during the 1970s and 1980s and they are likely to remember stories about Chile:...
This important article was originally published in Spanish in August 2019 (read the original here). Cristina Flores has translated it for LAB as a contribution to our ongoing project Voices of Latin America, represented by our book of that name, and the ongoing website which continues the work of the book.
Chile's protests were thwarted when the arrival of Coronavirus forced the population to stay at home. As the impact of the quarantine takes its toll and people are becoming desperate for food, one art collective is censored and attacked for highlighting the struggle.
Main image courtesy of _dibujossad.
This is the second of two articles with testimony from Chile’s protest movements. The first can be read here.
See also our January article 'Chile's long hot summer of discontent'
Stop Press: there were new street protests in Santiago over the weekend of 16-17 April in...
This is the first of two articles with testimony from Chile’s protest movements and the impact of Covid-19.
See also our January article 'Chile's long hot summer of discontent'
Sebastian Piñera’s government has taken the opportunity of Chile’s self-imposed isolation measures to paint over the...
At the
Frankfurt Book Fair early in the 1990s, Beatriz de Moura from Tusquets
publishers asked a Chilean journalist living in Germany if he had heard of a
Chilean writer who was having great success in France. The book was by someone
called Luis Sepúlveda. Laughing, the journalist admitted it was him.
Luis
Sepúlveda (Ovalle, Chile, 1949) died...
This article was translated for LAB by Chloe Budd. You can read the original (in Spanish) here.
Main image: Raya, an old Nahua. More than half of his village was destroyed after the land opened to oil exploration. Image: Survival International
They...
Chilean
politics are marked by several long-running and highly divisive controversies,
many deriving from the most consistently neoliberal economic policies and
property arrangements in the world. One
of these is the management and control of water resources. Water is unevenly
distributed throughout the national territory – scarce in the north of the country and abundant
in the south – a problem accentuated by...