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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
As the world economy seems to come closer to another recession, deepening inequalities and precarity — and now climate breakdown — discontent is increasingly driven by the perception of politics as a rigged game. (Reuters)
CAPITALISM

Chile’s riots the dance of the dispossessed

Protests are not a new phenomenon in the country, but the violence is

  • Maria Gabriela Palacio
  • Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón
5 min read