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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…

“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…

Calm down, calm down, don’t let’s not get carried away

In difficult situations, humour is a good medicine that helps to reflect and put things in the right perspective. The popular Mexican series, El Chapulín Colorado, in which the superhero plays a grasshopper with humour and childlike innocence. Calma, calma,…

Humanising functional rediscrimination

Most people are typical, they have a typical behaviour and some have a different behaviour which makes them atypical. Atypical because they feel, think and act differently from the majority. On the National Autism and Asperger Awareness Day, which is…

Congress approves “trigger-happy” Chile

Over the last 30 years, Latin America has progressively become one of the most dangerous regions in the world in terms of citizen security. According to data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), year 2022, of…

The dream of a happy school

The International Day of Happiness was celebrated on 20 March. It was established by the UN (United Nations) following a proposal by the Kingdom of Bhutan, which has made the happiness of its population one of its political objectives. The…

The look of an autistic person

Testimony (adult male with an ASD diagnosis): “The life of an autistic person has many nuances. From the moment we are born we already have a problem with this real world (real, cruel and inhuman); first of all, we don’t…

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