Police Violence Marked the Second Anniversary of Chile’s 2019 Uprising
The recent death of a Chilean protestor at the hands of the police is yet another example of the country's pattern of responding to civil unrest with force.
Memory on Chile’s Frontlines
The historic uprising against inequality reclaimed past struggles and forged new tools for present resistance.
What Does Chile’s New Left Want?
The Left's victories on May 15 and 16 showed the strength of the generation that became politicized in the 2011 student protests. Many of them now will take office at the local level and will play a significant role in the drafting of the new Magna Carta.
Against Forgetting
Read the editors' introduction to our latest print issue of the NACLA Report, "Against Forgetting: Mobilizing Memory for Reckoning and Repair."
Electing Chile’s Constitutional Convention: “Nothing About Us Without Us”
The rules for rewriting the Pinochet-era Constitution set new standards in creating space for women, Indigenous peoples, and people with disabilities.
Toward a People’s Constitution for Chile
Chile voted to rewrite its dictatorship-era constitution. The next challenge will be making sure the elites don't dominate the process.
Burying Pinochet
Chileans are determined to reinvent how democracy is practiced, starting with a new constitution.
The Chilean State Seeks to Ban the Poets
As Chileans vote in a plebiscite to decide whether to adopt a new Constitution, authorities have cracked down on the artistic expression that blossomed during the anti-neoliberal protest movement.
Chile’s Struggle to Democratize the State
Will the people of Chile be able to shape their own destiny via a plebiscite? Two months before the scheduled vote, the answer remains uncertain.
