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Pink tide: Supporters of left-wing Chilean president Gabriel Boric celebrate after the results of the runoff presidential election in Santiago in 2021. (Mauro Pimentel/AFP)
ARGENTINA

A new current of hope surges across Latin America

Seven right-wing governments have been defeated, while Brazil is set to join the wave of liberation next month

  • Jeremy Daphne
7 min read
Chilean President-elect Gabriel Boric speaks during the closing ceremony of the National Business Meeting (ENADE) in Santiago, on January 13, 2022. – Boric is to take office on March 11, 2022. (Photo by JAVIER TORRES / AFP)
ABORTION

Boric’s win paves the way for a bright, new world for women in Chile

The new movement in Chile has significant potential to continue its already ground-breaking march to a new world for all Chileans, and women in particular

  • Jeremy Daphne
  • Lorena Núñez Carrasco
8 min read
Demonstrators are seen in a barricade during a protest against Chilean President Sebastian Pinera’s government in Vina del Mar, on February 23, 2020, during the Vina del Mar Music Festival. (Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI / AFP)
CHILE

Chile’s political earthquake uncovers the non-traditional left

The shake-up has seen young, feminist and anti-neoliberal voices emerge from the 15 May general election

  • Lorena Núñez Carrasco
  • Jeremy Daphne
7 min read
Symbol of resistance: Flags representing the indigenous Mapuche people of Chile are waved at a Inti-Illimani concert and demonstration in Plaza de la Dignidad in Santiago on December.
CHILE

​Chile will never be the same – ‘The elite are terrified’

The uprising sweeping across the country is challenging the government and neoliberalism

  • Jeremy Daphne
5 min read