In Chile the Biobío Basin’s latest hydropower project is uprooting protected vegetation, amid allegations of insufficient prior consultation of local residents.
A graphic novel by Adam Policzer describes his experience as a Jewish child in wartime Hungary and, decades later, his arrest in Pinochet's Chile. In each case he was saved by the courage and humanity of individuals who dared to resist: a quality the book celebrates.
Mining engineer Laurence Morris shows how the world's 5 largest mining companies constitute an oligarchy, with serious consequences for mine workers, communities, the environment and the countries which depend on their corporate 'largesse'
This review of Pablo Aravena’s documentary ‘Chile Estyle’ was originally published by our partner Sounds & Colours. A busy street in Antofagasta, a city in the north of Chile around 1,110 km north of Santiago. An artist quietly works with a mix of paints and brushes. He has the Pacific ocean to his back, and […]
During the 1960-73 period, squatter movements for better housing were active and effective. Brutally suppressed during the dictatorship, they have never regained their importance. Malcolm Boorer went to one, Herminda de la Victoria, to find out why.
For 15 years, spiritual Mapuche leader Millaray Huichalaf, representing more than 150 Indigenous communities, has defended their sacred Pilmaiken River against Norwegian state-owned company Statkfraft’s hydroelectric ambitions.
In August last year, with the 50th anniversary of the coup d’état in Chile fast approaching, Tom Gatehouse interviewed his father Mike Gatehouse about his experiences of being arrested by the military and taken to the National Stadium, and continuing to campaign for human rights.
Ojos: Memoria de un estallido is a book put together as a memorial for victims of eye trauma suffered as a result of the fight for human rights in Chile. The people whose stories are gathered in this volume were caught up in the so-called Estallido Social, a period of social unrest which occurred between […]
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Pinochet’s coup in Chile and the scars of a wounded nation grappling with trauma continue to affect its people to this day. Through a mix of archive footage and a tender observational lens, the film delicately navigates the heartbreaking journey of a couple grappling with Alzheimer's.
Ecomemoria's mission is to create an ecological reserve, a site of historical memory, through the planting of a tree for each of the disappeared and politically executed victims of state terrorism in Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship.
