Proposed bill to legalise abortion up to 14 weeks hailed by Chilean legislator as ‘tremendous’ step for women’s rights.
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/28/chile-takes-first-step-towards-decriminalising-abortion
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Chile’s constitutional assembly held its first convention to begin creating the world’s first constitution to be drafted by an equal number of women and men.
Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/making-history-chileans-start-work-first-constitution-equally-drafted-rcna1353
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New constitutional assembly in deeply polarised nation must learn to work together and build trust, experts say.
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/4/chile-beautiful-challenge-of-drafting-new-constitution
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Victories for leftist and independent candidates over rightwingers paves the way for a long-awaited progressive settlement
Chile’s established political elite has been roundly rejected at the polls six months ahead of a pivotal presidential election, as the country turned to a progressive new generation to write the next chapter in its history.
Resounding victories for leftist and independent candidates saw rightwing politicians crash to a dismal electoral defeats alongside those with links to Chile’s transition to democracy.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/18/a-new-chile-political-elite-rejected-in-vote-for-constitutional-assembly
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Ruling coalition loses out as Chile prepares to rewrite constitution following mass protests against inequality in 2019.
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/17/chile-ruling-coalition-heading-for-upset-in-constitutional-vote
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Scientists found remains of the sauropod in rocks from what is today the Atacama desert.
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-56814655
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Lucia Newman explores a rapidly escalating conflict and talks to the elusive leader of the main armed Indigenous group.
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/4/12/a-journey-through-chiles-conflict-with-mapuche-resistance-groups
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A bizarre video captured during protests in Chile shows riot police wrestling with activist Giovanna Grandon, who is famous for attending anti-government rallies dressed as the Pokemon Pikachu.
The clip posted on social media shows Grandon, known as ‘Aunt Pikachu’, dancing on the street in Santiago along with several other activists, one of whom is wearing a green dinosaur suit. The group was interrupted by a police truck firing its water cannon as it slowly drove past them.
The activists were then approached by officers in full riot gear who immediately began surrounding Grandon and pushing her to the side. The woman, still in her Pokemon costume, fell to the ground, losing the costume’s large head in the process.
Several people were detained and put in a police van. Grandon was pepper-sprayed in the face when she tried to argue with the officers.
Grandon wrote on social media after the altercation that her fellow activist Oscar Brenet Arias, who often attends street protests dressed as the Joker, was detained for carrying a native Mapuche flag. Grandon blasted police for using violence, saying that “our demonstration was peaceful, with music and dancing.”
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The protests in Chile began more than a year ago. Having been originally sparked by a planned subway fare hike last fall, the rallies continued throughout the year, as people denounced income inequality and marched for better living standards.
Grandon told La Tercera newspaper that she began showing up at protests as a yellow Pokemon last month. “Young people have always liked anime, and they see a friend in Pikachu,” she said.
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University professor Luis Cifuentes voted in the same stadium where he had been tortured decades before.
Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/chileans-vote-new-constitution-leaving-behind-relic-pinochet-s-brutal-n1244591
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He was jailed and tortured but in exile forged an international reputation for his writing and activism
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/luis-sepulveda-death-writer-chile-pinochet-age-cause-coronavirus-a9486336.html
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Chile has surpassed 1,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus since the outbreak began in the Andean nation, the health ministry said on Wednesday, among the highest tallies in Latin America.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-chile/chile-surpasses-1000-cases-of-coronavirus-health-ministry-idUSKBN21C2CF?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews
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Chilean president Sebastian Pinera is under growing pressure to announce a national quarantine by opposition leaders, medical experts and local mayors, who have launched their own measures to try to curb the spread of the new coronavirus.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-chile/youre-not-on-holiday-chiles-pinera-under-pressure-to-declare-national-quarantine-over-coronavirus-idUSKBN2173KE?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews
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Photographer Marcelo Hernandez’s image pinpoints the glory and agony of Chileans’ struggle for liberation.
Source: https://www.wired.com/story/depth-of-field-chile/
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Demonstrators demand better social services and more equal distribution of wealth
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/chile-protests-students-break-out-school-iduique-santiago-a9187331.html
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APEC summit was set to be stage for end of trade war between China and US
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/chile-summit-protests-trump-trade-deal-china-xi-climate-change-a9178521.html
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Guess who’s stirring mass anti-government protests in Chile? Anybody? That’s right, it’s the Russians, at least according to Washington’s chief Latin American diplomat.
Speaking before a congressional committee hearing on Wednesday, State Department diplomat Michael Kozak suggested that “foreign actors” were stoking protests in Chile. Pressed on the statement by Latin-American news agency EFE on Friday, Kozak elaborated further.
“We have identified on social networks false accounts that emanate from Russia, which are people who pretend to be Chilean, but in reality all the message they are doing is trying to undermine all Chilean institutions and society,” he was quoted on Friday by Chilean media.
The US govt is blaming Russia for the protests in Chile, what a f–king joke.
It’s not the Russians fault that Chileans are tired of living in a US client state https://t.co/TMKGkxquxR
— Whitney Webb (@_whitneywebb) October 26, 2019
Kozak didn’t provide evidence, but if he did, it likely wouldn’t prove anything. Accusations of Russia’s social media meddling have been chucked around Washington for nearly three years now, and the best that social media ‘bot hunters’ have managed to come up with is lists of meme posting accounts that they “believe” are “potentially” Kremlin-backed, based on the claims of NATO-backed think tanks, professional ‘Russiagaters’ and Democrat intelligence officials.
In Chile, the protests were not sparked by Moscow-based trolls, but by a planned public transport fare hike. They have since evolved into a nationwide show of rage against the neoliberal policies of President Sebastian Pinera, whose proposed reforms have failed to tamp down public anger. At least 19 people have died over the last eight days, and more than 6,000 have been arrested, as protests descended into riots and clashes with police.
“Chile has a constitutional problem in terms of laws in terms of assigning a budget to the social sector and the non-social sector,” political analyst Francisco Coloane told RT. “There is a very strong pressure from the private sector not to make structural change.”
As the country’s first right-wing president since the end of US-backed dictator Augusto Pinochet’s government in 1990, Pinera has previously attempted to privatize Chile’s education system, resulting in student demonstrations in 2011. The country’s pension system, water supply, and healthcare system are all fully or almost fully privatized.
Protesters fill the streets of Santiago, Chile © Reuters / Ivan Alvarado
The result is a country that enjoys Latin America’s highest per-capita income, yet the highest inequality in the OECD.
But why dig into systemic factors and risk undermining the neoliberal consensus? Better to dust off the tinfoil hat and blame Russia instead.
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Violent protests break out across the country
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/chile-flight-cancelled-delayed-state-emergency-travel-advice-foreign-office-a9166366.html
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Looting continues despite president’s promise to scrap transport fare hike
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/chile-protests-riot-fire-supermarket-deaths-santiago-latest-subway-fares-a9164121.html
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Capital descended into chaos amid riots that left a downtown building engulfed in flames and metro system shuttered
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/chile-riots-latest-president-sebastian-pinera-emergency-santiago-subway-a9162691.html
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