For the past week, the streets of Chile’s capital, Santiago have resounded with the sound of banging metal pots, the rallying call of more than 400,000 protesters taking part in demonstrations across ...
Santiago, Chile-- Tens of thousands of Chileans marched peacefully Thursday demanding profound changes in the country's heavily centralized and privatized form of government, while smaller groups ...
Chilean President Sebastián Piñera has announced a major Cabinet shuffle after more than 1 million people flooded the streets Friday in massive peaceful demonstrations over inequality, high cost of ...
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Protesters rallied in Santiago and around the country on Thursday afternoon as President Sebastian Pinera sent the first of a promised raft of legislation to Congress in a bid to ...
Demonstrators take part in a march for free abortion rights and to demand an end to sexism and gender violence in the education system, in Santiago, Chile, July 25, 2018. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado BOGOTA, ...
Chile Pies lovers have been taking note this week of the Church Street’s boarded-up shop — one tipster wrote us that there’s “butcher paper taped over the windows” with “no explanation anywhere!” Fear ...
SANTIAGO, Chile — Thousands of Chileans filled a plaza in the center of the capital Tuesday in the 12th day of demonstrations that began with youth protests over a subway fare hike and transformed ...
Chile's peso hit a historic low on Tuesday after government promises to rewrite the country's dictatorship-era constitution failed to quell anger on the street. By Dave Sherwood and Fabian Cambero ...
Amidst the catastrophes of 2020, events in Chile are among the precious few institutional openings for the left globally. On October 25th, the population overwhelming voted in favor of replacing the ...
Soldiers are back on the streets of Chile for the first time since military rule ended two decades ago. President Michelle Bachelet was arrested and tortured under the regime of Augusto Pinochet. Her ...
Chile's student movement to demand free, quality public education is continuing--and growing--alongside a wider radicalization, explains Jason Farbman. "THE STRUGGLE continues," read the banner ...
Fifty years ago today, on the night of Sept. 4, 1970, I was dancing, along with a multitude of others, in the streets of Santiago de Chile. We were celebrating the election of Salvador Allende, the ...