Days after the bombing of La Moneda on September 11, 1973, the military junta set a priority that would define Chile’s trajectory for decades: drafting a new constitution.
Chilean feminist collective LASTESIS, creators of the viral interactive performance “A Rapist in Your Path,” presented the English translation of their book in New York. Translator Camila Valle reflects on the feminist and political implications of South-North translation.
En marzo, colectivo feminista chileno LASTESIS presentó la traducción al inglés de su libro en Nueva York. Traductora Camila Valle analiza implicaciones feministas de traducción Sur-Norte.
The ultra-conservative Republican Party won a majority on Chile’s new Constitutional Council, delivering a major blow to President Gabriel Boric’s transformative platform.
As Latin America swings left, activists keep alive a long anarchist tradition of critiquing the limits of state power. For them, the real alternatives are in communities, workplaces, and the streets.
Bonnefoy’s book documents the struggle in post-dictatorship Chile to bring human rights perpetrators to justice amid a democratic transition still monopolized by the military.
For one activist, Chile’s proposed constitution missed a historic opportunity to defend migrant rights amid a right-wing backlash that ultimately defeated the new progressive charter.
