South America

The secretary general of the Argentine Humanist Party, Fernando Schüle, has filed a criminal complaint with the Comodoro Py courts, requesting an investigation into possible crimes committed by President Javier Milei and members of his cabinet, even involving members of…

What stupid arguments the defenders of the current Ecuadorian government come up with. All tyrannies, all anti-democratic governments, make criminal accusations against their opponents. In Chile, all of us, or almost all of us, who have taken asylum have faced…

After an unforgettable experience for lovers of literature and critical thinking, FILCS, which opened on the 4th of this month and has become the epicenter of intellectual debate, closes today, Sunday 14th April, in the main square of the Recoleta…

9 April 2024, El Espectador On 7 April 1948, the World Health Organisation was founded, and on 9 April Jorge Eliécer Gaitán was assassinated. The 7th was established as World Health Day and the 9th was the Day of Remembrance…

Several events of related significance have marked the political landscape of Latin America and the Caribbean in recent days. First, the illegal armed invasion of the Mexican embassy in Ecuador to kidnap former vice-president Jorge Glas, who had requested political…

A few months ago, we published an interview with the mayor of Recoleta, Santiago de Chile, Daniel Jadue. In November this year, he will end his third and final term in office, having implemented social programs with a broad impact,…

Organized by Virtual Ediciones, yesterday Silo’s lecture given at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow on 18 June 1992 was presented through a video on “The Crisis of Civilization and Humanism”, contextualized by José Gabriel Feres and Gonzalo García-Huidobro.…

The organization of the homeless in Chile is in the form of various neighborhood associations, commissions, and collectives These committees must obtain legal status in the different municipalities of the country, according to the current legislation. They are the basic…

The newspaper El Mercurio, the main mouthpiece of the right-wing and big business in Chile, dedicated two separate pages to the death of Sergio Fernández, considered the most prominent civilian in the service of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. First as his…

“They took Catalina’s will to live”. With these words, Catalina’s mother begins an open letter to the community in which she describes the situation of her daughter, a student of Educational Therapy at the University of Los Andes, who took…