Tag: chili
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Chile: what you should know about the presidential elections
The difference in votes in the first round on November 21 was minimal, just two percentage points: the far-right José Antonio Kast won with 28% of the vote, while the leftist Gabriel Boric won 26%. In the final stretch for the second round next Sunday, both candidates, each on a political extreme, seek to get…
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Chile faced its last presidential debate before the second round elections
First modification: 12/14/2021 – 04:40 Although both candidates decided to talk about their most popular and best-received proposals for the population, same-sex marriage recently approved in Chile and sexual diversity were some of the issues that raised the temperature of the debate. This Monday, December 13, was the last presidential debate between the presidential candidates…
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Chile: consternation over the suicide of a young man, victim of eye trauma in the 2019 protests
First modification: 12/11/2021 – 21:27 The Coordinator of Ocular Trauma Victims and Family Members, formed after the protests against the Chilean Government in 2019, confirmed the suicide of one of the young people affected. The deceased, 26, would not have recovered from a depression after becoming one of the 400 people who partially or totally…
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Chilean President Sebastián Piñera promulgated the equal marriage law
First modification: 12/10/2021 – 04:31 The ceremony was held in the government palace of La Moneda together with LGTBI activists, representatives of civil society, legislators and public officials. This Thursday, Chilean President Sebastián Piñera promulgated the law that allows same-sex couples to marry and adopt minors, just days after it was approved in Congress in…
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Press review – The father of the Chilean candidate Kast “was a member of the Nazi party”, headlines ‘El País’
We open with ‘El País’, which includes an investigation that shows that the father of the Chilean president José Antonio Kast joined the Nazi party in Germany in 1942. We continue with ‘Le Monde’, which proves that the 27 people who were shipwrecked in the Canal de La Mancha on November 24 called the emergency…
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Press review – “120 years of extreme inequality in Chile”, as the local press headlines
First modification: 12/08/2021 – 17:55 We open a press review with comments from The Guardian, Le Monde and Die Welt on the inauguration of Olaf Scholz as the new German Chancellor. With the Chilean newspaper El Desconcierto, we talked about the “120 years of extreme inequality in Chile” indicated by a report from the Paris…
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Chile approves same-sex marriage
First modification: 12/07/2021 – 19:50 The Chilean Congress approved with 82 votes in favor, 20 against and two abstentions, marriage between persons of the same sex. The bill lasted four years in debates, Michelle Bachelet in 2017 was the one who presented the initiative. In an unprecedented decision, the Chilean Congress approved equal marriage. The…
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First case of the Omicron variant detected in Chile
First modification: 12/05/2021 – 04:34 A foreigner from Ghana, Africa, tested positive in Chile for the Covid-19 Omicron variant. The country joins Mexico and Brazil among Latin Americans where there are records of the arrival of the variant, which was discovered by South African scientists and is already on the five continents. Chilean health authorities…
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Chile and the long shadow of Pinochet
Chile lives turbulent days at the end of 2021. In the midst of the process towards a unique and exemplary change with the drafting of a new Constitution, which seeks to bury the one still in force, the one that covered the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, an absolutely polarized electoral campaign it alters their political…
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The Interview – Natividad Llanquileo: “The Chilean State does not protect the interests of indigenous peoples”
In the context of the Mapuche conflict in Chile, in recent weeks several areas in the south of the country have experienced episodes of violence that even included the death of a Mapuche community member. In this context, President Sebastián Piñera ordered a state of exception and the militarization of four provinces. We discussed this…