Manuel Acuña Asenjo

“Mr. Piñera, you have been warned, you will be prosecuted for the serious human rights violations committed under your mandate”. Warning by then MP Gabriel Boric to President Sebastián Piñera in September 2021 1 . A MEMORABLE EVENT The rebellion…

LEFT’ AND ‘RIGHT’ Every now and then, in the course of history, movements emerge that challenge the leadership of those who politically represent the different fractions of the dominant sectors of society, and will be willing to take on that…

A CONTROVERSIAL INTERVIEW Continuing his tour of Europe, aimed at strengthening trade ties with some countries on that continent, Chilean President Gabriel Boric was interviewed by BBC journalist Stephen Sackur about certain expressions made by the former Finance Minister of…

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…

PRELIMINARY The selection and registration phase of candidates for constitutional councillors in the new constituent process ended on the 6th of this month. Consequently, a new phase has begun in which both the parties and the candidates themselves will have…

ON THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST REJECTION It is barely a week since the CC put an end to the work of drawing up the draft constitution commissioned by the community. One might have thought that, after the end of this task,…

On Thursday 2 June (according to the timetable that has been set), the plenary of the CC will vote on the fate of the new constitution. Paradoxically, in that act, part of the work done by the CC during the…

The fish dies by the mouth; and the nightingale, in the evening. (Popular saying) A few days ago, our good friend Heraldo de Pujadas reminded us, with regard to the Christian custom of not eating red meat during Holy Week,…

PREAMBLE In many of our articles we have referred to the implacable struggle that the Chilean ‘political elite’ is waging against the national community. It may seem surprising and even illogical that political organisations created precisely to defend the interests…

Is the resignation, without a corresponding replacement, of the members of the Constitutional Convention to be considered a new aggression to those that the Constitutional Convention constantly receives? PRELIMINARY The Constitutional Convention is, without a doubt, ‘the’ problem of the…