Author: chris

With the referendum to vote on a new constitution at the forefront of the minds of many Chileans, Chile Today talked to Chileans living abroad in the UK to find out how they are reacting to the upcoming referendum. What do they think about voting in the referendum? How are their lives affected by the situation in… Continue reading Chileans Abroad and the Upcoming Referendum

There’s a cascade of colour throughout Chile’s capital as people occupy street corners and flow onto the central avenue. Their cries are backed by a chorus of banging pots and pans from surrounding buildings, the traditional cacerolazo protest.  Yet Santiago is marked by violence of the night before: the smell of teargas clings to the concrete, the… Continue reading How the Chilean uprising reawakened international solidarity

A Chilean delegation visited the Foreign Office in London on 21 January. It presented foreign secretary Dominic Raab with a letter calling for a halt in the export of crowd-control weapons to Chile and to investigate the Chilean government for crimes against humanity. Gross human-rights violations have been committed by Chile’s security forces since social unrest broke out on 18 October 2019 over soaring… Continue reading Human rights delegation urges UK to act on state abuses in Chile during recent uprising

I arrived in Santiago, Chile, exactly two months after students famously jumped an underground barrier in protest at price hikes. That small act on October 18th 2019 snowballed into an uprising that swept across the nation, albeit a leaderless one, in Chile’s largest social revolt since the dictatorship. As I made my way to a… Continue reading The People Remain Defiant (The Labour Briefing)