Special report by PEOPLE’S WORLD
Latest editorial
Camila Vallejo: The Boric government is making steady progress in Chile
CAMILA VALLEJO, spokesperson for Chile’s president’s office, spoke to El Siglo’s Daniela Pizarro Amaya about the government’s policy initiatives so far
THE STRUGGLE BEGINS: (L to R) Camila Vallejo and Constitutional Convention members celebrate, on Tuesday, the approval of the motion to grant devolution to Chiloe and Aconcagua regions
[(Left) Office of the Presidency of Chile]
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
“I HAVE always told my team that we have to work more so that the people work less,” Camila Vallejo intimates.
A geographer by profession, former president of the Federation of Students of the University of Chile, former MP, a Communist Party militant of many years and now Minister for the Secretariat-General of Government, Vallejo is well prepared for the job at hand.
“Let us not forget that when we took office we inherited a fractured country,” she stresses, “where the cost of living has risen sharply as a result of external and internal factors, with major security challenges, with a vast need for justice, reparation and guarantees of non-sliding back, and in great debt to those who have been left furthest behind.
Similar stories
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
Communist Party presidential candidate JEANNETTE JARA challenges the Chilean left to stop talking only among comrades and reach out to angry voters abandoned by politics in the race against the far right this November
For the first time in years, the dominant voice within Chile’s official left comes not from neoliberal centrists but from the world of labour, writes LEONEL POBLETE CODUTTI