Photo credit Paulo Slachevsky https://flickr.com/photos/pauloslachevsky (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) ... Read more

Photo credit Paulo Slachevsky https://flickr.com/photos/pauloslachevsky (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)In the days leading up to 20 December 2021, many of the world’s leading newspapers and magazines presented the election in Chile as an unfortunate and forced choice between two “extremists” who would only offer two different variants of populism. Within the Latin American and global left, Boric’s triumph... Read more

Una recopilación de los hechos Los últimos dos años en Chile han sido intensos. El estallido social que comenzó en octubre del año 2019, no solo dio cuenta de la profunda desigualdad que sentía la gran mayoría de las personas que habitan Chile, sino que además cuestionó un modelo económico y social que se nos había impuesto durante la sangrienta dictadura de Augusto Pinochet. Las manifestacion... Read more

The last couple of years in Chile have been intense. The social unrest that began in 2019 not only evidenced the deep-seated inequality felt by the vast majority of the people of Chile, it also questioned an economic and social model that had been imposed on us during the brutal dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. However, social protests are not new in our recent history. The “Penguins’ Revolut... Read more

6 razones por las cuales hay que rechazar la ratificación del Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) entre Argentina y Chile: El TLC blinda los derechos de los inversores, ya que denunciarlo es prácticamente imposible. El TLC mantiene amplios derechos para los inversores, incluidos algunos de los que usan con más frecuencia para demandar a los Estados (como el trato justo y equitativo, la expro... Read more

The dandelion is the logo of the Transnational Institute, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies of which Letelier was director when he lost his life. It's mandate: to investigate the growing disparity between rich and poor in the world, and to seek democratic paths for its remedy. The fifth panel describes the reason why it was chosen as the organization's symbol.... Read more

Marchers for Salvador Allende. A crowd of people marching to support the election of Salvador Allende for president in Santiago, Chile. / Photo credit Wikimedia commons Orlando Letelier’s essay on the Chicago Boys and their role in the brutal neoliberal transformation of Chile has withstood the test of time. A few weeks before his assassination, Letelier was able to capture in detail the... Read more

U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger shaking hands with Pinochet in 1976 / Photo credit WikipediaPARA PUBLICACIÓN INMEDIATA... Read more

U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger shaking hands with Pinochet in 1976 / Photo credit WikipediaFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE... Read more