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Piñera Appoints Pinochet Dictatorship Official Minister of Labour
On Wednesday, 7 April, Chilean president Sebastián Piñera appointed Patricio Melero, a representative of the far right and former official in the dictatorship o...
Mapuche Political Prisoners: 112 days on Hunger Strike without Response from Chilean government
[resumen.cl] On August 18 was announced that Celestino Córdova had ended his lengthy hunger strike after reaching an agreement with the Chilean government. Howe...
Mapuche Political Prisoners on Hunger Strike for 75 Days without Response from Chilean President Piñera
Life or Death: That is the situation of the eight Mapuche political prisoners in Angol prison, in the Chilean region of Araucanía, who have now been on hunger s...
Nationwide protest marks first night in March in Chile
[resumen.cl] Cacerolazos (traditional Latin American form of protest in which people make noise with pots and pans to demand the resignation of a government) ha...
Civilians Exit Private Vehicle Driven by Man in Military Police Uniform and Brutally Beat Two Demonstrators
[resumen.cl] An exceedingly concerning incident occurred at approximately 11.15 PM this Monday in the Remodelación Eleuterio Ramírez neighbourhood of Concepción...
Social organisations in Chile reject the ‘peace agreement’ of the discredited political class and call for mobilisations to continue
[resumen.cl] After what the political class characterised as an ‘Agreement for Peace and a New Constitution’, various social organisations and movements announc...
Chilean A & E Departments Report More than 8,000 Cases Nationally since 18 October
Hours before Chilean president Sebastián Piñera announced a series of measures intended to intensify the criminalisation and persecution of the social mobilizat...
From the Social Agenda to the Repression Agenda: Sebastián Piñera Takes Refuge in the Hard Right
by Joaquín Hernández / translated by A.B. Silvera Following the publication of the latest Pulso Ciudadano (‘Citizen’s Pulse’) poll, in which Sebastián Piñera he...
Not Even a Dent: How Piñera’s Statement Insulted the Chilean Public
President Piñera’s announcement last night of a so-called “social agenda”, his proposed series of solutions to the current crisis, does not translate into any c...
Internacional Disgrace: Police Attack World Climate March in Concepción, Chile
[resumen.cl] The Climate March, part of the Friday for Future campaign, is a mobilisation called for by activist Greta Thunberg that seeks to raise awareness of...
Mapuche families in Alto Biobío respond to eviction order: ‘We will not leave the territory’
[resumen.cl] A group of Mapuche families (of the Pehuenche group) in the Infiernillo area of 'Trapa Trapa', Alto Biobío district, is facing an eviction threat. ...