This year marks the anniversaries of two drastically different events that loomed all too large in my life. The first occurred a…
We look at the 50th anniversary of what is sometimes called the “other 9/11” — the U.S.-backed coup in Chile, when General…
On September 4, 1973, an enormous multitude of Chileans—I was one of them—poured into the streets of Santiago to back the besieged…
Fifty years ago, in late 1972, I was one of a multitude of Chileans who lined the streets of Santiago to support…
I confess that I am in mourning. On Sunday, a resounding 62% of the voters in Chile, my country, rejected the adoption of…
An existential choice awaits the Chilean people in a referendum on Sunday to approve (apruebo) a new constitution or reject it (rechazo), leaving…
Oppressive conservative forces are still strong in Chile and Gabriel Boric’s supporters are impatient for change. Can he fulfil his promise?
Despite challenges and disputes aplenty, my country has embarked on a remarkable project: a truly popular debate about what sort of nation it should aspire to be
The causes he believes in are those youth everywhere have been increasingly fighting for across the globe
In Chile, voters will determine a close runoff election between far-right candidate José Antonio Kast and leftist Gabriel Boric, a former student leader
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