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On Silo’s famous harangue of May 4, 1969

When I received the message with a link to the audio (1) that reproduces Silo’s voice pronouncing the harangue, my mind went back to that moment to recall the facts of such an important event. Which I relate below. Around…

No human being is illegal!

This week Chile and Peru decreed a state of emergency on their borders due to the migratory situation that is being experienced, in a deplorable action, and which deepens the signs of failed states, without the capacity to assume the…

Prejudices and stereotypes

The thoughtless repetition of stereotypes builds walls and condemns without proof. It is preoccupying to observe the dissemination of discriminatory concepts, whose background indicates how much easier it is to avoid the work of analysis than to elaborate an easy…

Learning through trial and error

On 20 April 2023, SpaceX launched the largest rocket ever built. The Starship space vehicle, designed to take people to Mars in the future, took off and after four minutes exploded without a crew on board. The great aerospace challenge…

Metropolitan Regional Government together with various authorities launches the programme “Leaders for nonviolence”.

With the presence of the RM Governor, Claudio Orrego; the SEREMI Education RM, Flavia Fiabane; the President of Fundación Semilla, Marcelo Trivelli; the Mayor of Quinta Normal, Karina Delfino; the Dean of the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences UDLA,…

Voting not to vote

PREAMBLE The election on 7 May will not be an unimportant event. On the contrary, it will have special significance for the events that will unfold after that date. On the political scene, it will have consequences for both the…

The impossible experience of other people’s pain

I have noticed the angry reaction of many people to the invitation that Fundación Futuro (linked to Sebastián Piñera’s family) made to an event offering to go wine tasting at Viña Concha y Toro and then go on to visit…

The tug-of-war over labour rights in Chile

Just days before celebrating another May 1st, a date of special significance as we remember the historic struggle for the demands of workers around the world; the project, proposed in 2017, “40 hours”, a legal initiative that sought to modify…

Genetically modified bread is already on Argentinean tables

Argentina is the first country in the world to eat genetically modified bread. The company Bioceres-Indear reported that GM wheat is already being mixed with conventional wheat in 25 mills. With no labelling of genetically modified foods, it is already…

“Mir Zainen Do!” Chileans make the message of the Warsaw ghetto uprising their own

On 19 April 1943, German and some Polish battalions entered the 3.4 square kilometre fenced perimeter inside the city of Warsaw, where, since November 1940, Jews had been interned, as their ancestors were in medieval times, in a ghetto. Since…

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