SANTIAGO - "If Chile was the cradle of neoliberalism, it will also be its grave." If one quote could sum up a candidate's ...

When Chile overwhelmingly elected Gabriel Boric on 19 December, I was elated. Left-wing Boric had been pitted against the far-Right José Antonio Kast, who had systematically denied the climate crisis, ...

Milton Freidman (1912-2006) labeled it the “Miracle of Chile,” as his “Chicago Boys,” a considerable group of Chilean economists who studied at the University of Chicago, established his neoliberal ...

In recent months, common people in Chile have taken to the streets not to pursue an ideological project or concrete cause — but as the result of the fragility and insecurity of everyday life, and the ...

Protesters are calling for a general strike as mass demonstrations against neoliberalism grow. Carlos Torres, a Chilean refugee now back in Chile, talks to rabble.ca about the mass protests. Chile has ...

The turmoil in Chile satisfies old Marxists who, always looking for the next revolution, have set their hopes on Santiago. The leftist media, in turn, fuel the revolutionary mood by framing the story ...

Uprisings against the corrupt, generation-long dominance of neoliberal “center-right” and “center-left” governments that benefit the wealthy and multinational corporations at the expense of working ...

Chile embraced neoliberalism more than almost any other nation, with its 1980 privatization of pensions a hallmark of its paradigm shift. The World Bank and International Monetary Fund were quick to ...

In a historic milestone, Chile has finalized a draft of its first-ever democratically written constitution to replace the one created under the U.S.-backed neoliberal dictator Augusto Pinochet. The ...

What happened on the 18th of October, 2019? It is probably still too early to draw a definitive characterization of what really began that day, but one thing seems clear: the social and political life ...