Politics

Fifty years after the coup d’état of September 1973, beyond the just tributes paid in Chile and around the world to Salvador Allende, we all had the opportunity to observe the tension that this national and global anniversary always produces…

On 27 September, the new book on the normative foundations and financing of basic income will be on sale. Written by Jordi Arcarons, Julen Bollain, Daniel Raventós and Lluís Torrens. We anticipate the issues addressed in the new production: Taxes,…

In the days leading up to the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 1973 military coup d’état in Chile, the United States officially announced the declassification of documents that had been kept secret for five decades: see RFI’s 9/09/2023.…

The Multiconvergence of Global Networks (MRG) is resuming the dynamic of meetings that we proposed last March. We are going to host the next meeting, whose theme is of the utmost urgency and of global reach: the Climate Emergency, which…

The Peruvian Congress has approved a bill that gives the executive power to legislate on security issues. Among the 50 bills that would be approved is Bill No. 5632/2023, which seeks to criminalise the work of journalists who report on…

A conversation with Pastor Alape, former guerrilla mayoral candidate for the Comunes Party. By Taroa Zúñiga Silva and Laura Devia López On May 4, 2023, during the International Summit on Nonviolence held in Antioquia, Colombia, a handshake shocked those who…

Perhaps no term used recurrently in the public space was so outraged that it was not only emptied of content but lost all meaning to refer to reality. Today people want to confuse democracy with the right to vote, one…

We publish here the words of the Mayor of Valparaíso, Jorge Sharp, at the ceremony held on 11 September to posthumously declare President Allende an illustrious citizen of the city: “This September 11, 2023, 50 years after the coup d’état,…

… the one in Chile, the US-orchestrated disaster that opened some Western eyes to US foreign policy. What we should have understood back then – but most of us didn’t – was that many countries, including my own, have both…

Joe Biden Won’t Be the Democratic Candidate in 2024 In December of 2022 I went on record saying that Joe Biden would not be running for president again in 2024. The response I got from my Democrat friends when I…