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.
En medio del proceso de cambio en curso, un analista de los movimientos sociales chilenos reflexiona sobre las múltiples izquierdas y las relaciones de poder que existen hoy en Chile.
