The minimum required of democratic countries is that their authorities are elected by the people in free, informed and secret elections. In…

Palestinian officials and supporters welcomed leftist Chilean President Gabriel Boric’s announcement this week that his country will open an embassy in the…

Fifty years ago, in late 1972, I was one of a multitude of Chileans who lined the streets of Santiago to support…

Amid a hail of rubble and blasts from police water cannons, Santiago’s high school students are coordinating a fresh wave of protests…

Human rights defenders on Friday welcomed a move by Chile’s progressive president to put off accepting the new Israeli ambassador’s credentials in response…

On Sunday, September 4, the command of the Movimientos Sociales por el Apruebo — militants and representatives supporting Apruebo, the “approval” of…

There should a rule in politics that if you have trouble explaining something, you can’t to build a movement around it. Chile’s…

On September 4, 2022, more than 13 million Chileans—out of a voting-eligible population of approximately 15 million—voted on a proposal to introduce a…

Last December, between the two rounds of Chile’s presidential election, I had dinner with some friends from the Latin America country, each…

Originally published in Spanish by Nueva Sociedad. Translated by Liza Schmidt. What one year ago seemed like it would be a formality…