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Rewilding beyond Borders: The first Southern Cone collaboration to translocate Wild Endemic Birds

In the first international translocation of wild species for release in the Southern Cone, Rewilding Argentina and Rewilding Chile, offspring organizations of Tompkins Conservation, have brought 15 Darwin’s rheas across the Andes from Patagonia Park, Argentina to Patagonia National Park,…

The Persistence of Memory in Negationist Times. 50 years after a pilot terror plan in Tucumán, Argentina

(This is the first in a series of articles planned for this year that will explore possible links between Chile and Operativo Independencia.) By Maxine Lowy Fifty years after the introduction of the first systematic plan of extermination in Argentina,…

World Humanist Forum, of a permanent character. Words by Antonio Carvallo

We publish here the words with which Antonio Carvallo introduced today’s virtual assembly of the World Humanist Forum: “The Forum is an ambit of exchange and discussion among humanists and likeminded people around the world to study and develop positions…

The Enduring Legacy of EPES Concepción: The transformation of women and their communities

By Maxine Lowy Along the north shore of the Biobío River, in the Chilean southcentral city of Concepción, illegal waste dumps and overgrown bushes proliferated. A short distance from there were modest neighborhoods where families crowded in flimsy houses. Rodents,…

“La casa del frente”, Sparks of Humanity in Dark Times

By Maxine Lowy Only six meters separated the two curbs of Dioszegi Street near downtown Miskolc, a city in northeastern Hungary. But in April 1944, one month after the German invasion of that country, it was a nearly insurmountable distance…

“Guillermo, qué quiere que le diga” Tribute dialogues with the legacy of late artist Guillermo Núñez

By Maxine Lowy In a sample of the exuberant and infinite creative power of the human being, some 180 variants of two works, made by the same number of artists, cover the length and breadth of the walls of the…

Acción Humanista: Public statement on the political situation in Venezuela

Faced with the delicate situation that the Venezuelan people are experiencing today, as Acción Humanista we join the calls of the international community and of governments, parties and sectors of the left and progressives of various countries that raise the…

How to Defeat Violence?

We publish here the conversation among Luca Marini – founder of the Alpha Community, siloist – and the young representative of the Points News channel, Daria Pick. This interview is about Silo, active nonviolence, mental suffering and personal development, going…

The BRICS – Is another world possible?

The BRICS is the name given to the group of five countries that began to form this group and to work consensually in areas such as trade, investment, technology, and finance, to promote their common interests on the world stage,…

Mario Aguilar, President of the Chilean Teachers’ Association, elected to Education International’s Executive Committee

The President of the Chilean Teachers’ College, Mario Aguilar, has been elected to the Executive Committee of Education International for Latin America, EILA, for the period 2024-2028. In his first speech to the General Assembly, the Chilean teacher leader reviewed…

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