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A few days ago the book “Engaños Mutuos: El Golpe Gringo” (Mutual Deception: The Gringo Coup), written by Cristián Opaso.

We share an extract from Cristián Opaso’s book which reproduces a conversation with René Schneider, son of the Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the same name, who was assassinated in October 1970 in an attempt – organised and financed by…

Allende, fifty years after

Fifty years have passed and President Allende’s ideas are still very much alive in Chile, as they are in Latin America and a large part of the so-called Third World. Years ago, in Guadalajara, we had the good fortune to…

Massive march and repression

Another September 11 in Chile, but not just any other day. It is 50 years since the coup d’état and there is an important generational change on the streets, many thousands of young people who feel the need to express…

Latin American peoples between obscurantism, nostalgia and new utopias

In October, Argentines and Ecuadorians are once again called to the polls. In the case of Ecuador, a second round of voting will determine who will occupy the presidential seat of the ousted banker-president Lasso in a shortened mandate for…

What are the impacts of taxation on global education?

Specialists analyse the importance of building a fair tax system to guarantee public funding for education. By Anddy Landacay, from the National Public Budget Group (GNPP) and the Peruvian Campaign for the Right to Education (CPDE) In the framework of…

Freedom Moves Forward… health and life move backwards!

“If health and education are treated unequally for the inhabitants of a country, the revolution implies free education and health for all … It seems to us that proceeding in the opposite way will not lead to the creation of…

An Open Secret: When the infliction of Pain was State Policy in Chile

By Maxine Lowy “Surely you exaggerate. How can it be that bad?” 1 In response to Chilean judges’ ostensible disbelief that torture had become routine after September 11, 1973, the day that has left the nation scarred 50 years later,…

[Poetry] CHILE, 50 YEARS IN CHAINS

Do you remember when tenderness nested in our hearts? Do you remember the times when we marveled at the garden full of fireflies, that flowing river, the warm sand on our feet and the flower of a thousand petals? Do…

Brazil’s biggest anti-slavery operation rescues 532 people

The people were in slave-like situations in 131 municipalities in 23 Brazilian states. Rio de Janeiro. At least 532 people were rescued in Brazil from slave-like conditions in the country’s largest-ever operation against slave labour, officials said on Tuesday (5…

Third Malón of La Paz and the political power of women in Abya Yala

September 5th is International Indigenous Women’s Day, established in 1983, during the II Meeting of Organisations and Movements of America in Tiahuanacu, vindicating in the figure of Bartolina Sisa the struggle of indigenous women against all types of oppression. Bartolina…

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