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Chileans mark World Water Day by protesting President Kast's rollback of environmental rules

Thousands of people march across Chile to mark World Water Day and protest President José Antonio Kast’s rollback of environmental rules

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51 Pics That Show Unique Moments In Ancient And More Recent History (New Pics)

History classes in school are generally about significant events in a country or the life stories of renowned figures. You won’t often see references to pop culture icons, everyday people, and other powerful moments that left a mark over time. That’s where social media pages like Historyfeels come in, and…

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How Chile's Free Market Miracle Survived a Resurgent Left

Outgoing President Gabriel Boric predicted that Chile would go from being neoliberalism’s “cradle” to its “grave.” His movement got buried instead.

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José Antonio Kast, the Pinochet fan about to swerve Chile to the far right

The new president won office by promising to clean up crime, but his background is red rag to a bull for many

The Guardian - UK

Fears for women’s rights in Chile as anti-abortion president set to take office

José Antonio Kast, who voted against legalising divorce in 2004, has pushed for return to total abortion ban

The Guardian - UK

Chile’s president-elect names staunch abortion opponent as gender equality minister

Far-right incoming president picked Judith Marín, who has publicly decried bills to decriminalise abortion, for the role

The Guardian - US

Chile’s far-right president taps into support for Pinochet that never went away

Experts say José Antonio Kast able to ‘reactivate a dormant Pinochetism’ and warn more education needed on ‘horrors of dictatorship’

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Chile elects most right-wing leader since Pinochet – in line with regional drift, domestic tendency to punish incumbents

Chileans have elected the most right-wing presidential candidate since the end of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship over three and a half decades ago.

The Conversation

Chile’s new far-right head is latest Latin American leader to ride hardline wave to power

From the US to Hungary to Argentina, rightwing leaders are praising José Antonio Kast’s win in Chile’s presidential race

The Guardian - US

Jose Antonio Kast on Chile's Presidency Sparks Conservative Wave in Politics, Critics Question Democracy Ahead

Far-right hardliner José Antonio Kast has been elected Chile's next president after a decisive runoff victory, pledging deep spending cuts, tougher security, and mass deportations.

International Business Times UK

This Week in History: Soviet collapse, Clinton’s impeachment, and the death of Pinochet

From power struggles to global crises, explore how major events between 8 and 14 December were captured on The Independent’s front pages

The Independent UK

Operation Condor: the secret system that terrorised exiled South American dissidents 50 years ago

Fifty years ago on November 25 1975, military intelligence officers from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay gathered in the Chilean capital of Santiago to set up what they called the “Condor System”.

The Conversation

Jair Bolsonaro arrested amid fears he planned to flee as coup trial nears conclusion

Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, was taken into custody on November 22 after it was determined there was a “high risk” of him attempting to flee to a foreign embassy. The arrest took place as the Brazilian supreme court was analysing Bolsonaro’s final appeal against a 27-year prison sentence for…

The Conversation

Trump is turning the US military into a political prop

The military has been recast in a partisan, performative mold – all according to the president’s logic of impunity

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Witnessing the wrath of Richard Gott in Chile

Letter: Neal Ascherson on one of the lowest points in British postwar diplomacy

The Conversation

Politicizing federal troops in US mirrors use of military in Latin America in the 1970s and ’80s

In his second term as president, Donald Trump has deployed U.S. military forces in rarely used roles in domestic law enforcement.

The Conversation

Charlie Kirk and the politics of rhetoric and division

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The Scottish arts centre showing freedom films amid right-wing rise

A CELEBRATED film about Scottish workers who refused to work on Chilean plane parts due to the atrocities committed by the Pinochet dictatorship…

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‘I was censored for a long time’: the woman who photographed Chile’s sex workers and dissidents

From brothels to boxing rings, Paz Errázuriz’s tender images always challenged the Pinochet dictatorship. Now 81 years old – and ahead of a UK show – the spiky-haired artist recounts a career spent on the fringes

The Guardian - UK

Tuesday briefing: What Trump’s response to the LA protests could mean for US democracy

In today’s newsletter: A lauded human rights lawyer on the anti-immigration protests in Los Angeles – and just what is at stake

The Conversation

Getting away with it … sort of. How a dictator and a fugitive Nazi advanced international human rights law

Pinochet and Rauff? They were alike. Each had two faces. One gentle, the other hard. They were joined.

International Business Times

The Battle By Chile Torture Site Dwellers To Remain

With its pristine swimming pool, manicured lawns and lush forest backdrop, Villa Baviera, a German-themed settlement of 122 souls in southern Chile, looks like the perfect holiday getaway.

The Guardian - UK

38 Londres Street by Philippe Sands review – Pinochet and the Nazis

A human rights lawyer skilfully gathers the threads that link the former Chilean dictator to a fugitive SS officer

The Guardian - UK

‘The law is another form of storytelling’: Philippe Sands in conversation with Juan Gabriel Vásquez

When Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London in 1998, lawyer Philippe Sands was part of the prosecution. As his book about the case comes out, he talks to the Colombian novelist about literature and justice

The Guardian - UK

38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia by Philippe Sands review – war crimes revisited

In the final part of a bravura trilogy detailing the struggle to bring war criminals to account, Sands tracks a former SS commander to Chile, where he found a friend in Augusto Pinochet

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