This article was sent to LAB by a correspondent based in Santiago.
It’s 11 January 2020, and I am sitting on a hot and unforgiving cement esplanade, at the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of Chile’s national Memory and Human Rights Museum. The mood is generally good natured,...
Immediately following the military coup in Chile on September 11 1973, the Pinochet dictatorship set about destroying as much as they could lay their hands on of the hugely popular wave of commited art and culture which had supported and given a voice to Popular Unity, its supporters and to millions of ordinary Chileans.
Bem viver, the good life, is possible -- LAB Newsletter December 2019
Distributing medicinal plants to houses in Cabelo Seco.
This has been an extraordinary year, with many setbacks but some remarkable signs of hope. To celebrate the latter, we report on our partner project Rios de Encontro, in Marabá,...
On 20 November, a
group of four women known as Las Tesis from Valparaíso, Chile, unknowingly
started what would become an international phenomenon in the global struggle
against sexism and gender-based violence: they performed the anti-machista
anthem and routine ‘Un Violador en tu Camino’ for the first time.
The group hoped that the song would spread feminist theory
in...
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A wave of protest sweeps the continent
On the 18th of October 2019, mass
fare dodging in Santiago de Chile expanded into city-wide protests and
violence. Initially in response to a transport price hike, the situation
subsequently developed into a
nation-wide movement against Chile’s stark inequality issues. Amongst the
cities where protests and marches are in full swing is Talca, where students of
the University of Talca have voted this...
LAB received this report from a long-term friend and supporter in Chile.
Santiago, 1 November
Dear friends at LAB, our country received so much help from you in its struggle to regain democracy, that I decided to send you this mini-report. After all, what are friends for?
It is spring in the Southern hemisphere. But in Chile, this spring is different - Santiago, 29 October
‘Chile has woken up’ is one of the most popular slogans in the
recent eruption of social unrest in the country. It has been fêted as the most
prosperous country of Latin America, a model, and most...
Peine, Chile and Susques, Argentina – Within minutes of driving out of
tourist hotspot San Pedro de Atacama in northern Chile you are deep in the
Earth’s driest desert. Vast stretches of reddish-orange sand fly past on both
sides. Every now and then you pass the odd dwelling, but this sparse setting
changes when you reach the Salar de Atacama:...
'No son $30'
On Friday 18 October, Chilean president
Sebastian Piñera announced a state of emergency in the country’s capital
Santiago. As protests spread throughout the country over the following days,
the state of emergency and its accompanying curfews were also extended.
Chile has not experienced a state
of emergency since the one...