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Chilean President Sebastian Piñera
CHILE’S right-wing President Sebastien Pinera was accused of criminalising the country’s indigenous people on Tuesday when he announced a state of emergency in the Mapuche homeland.
Troops have been deployed to put down protests in the provinces of Malleco and Cautin, where the restrictions are expected to last for at least 15 days,
Locals fearing further state violence have said that “masses of soldiers” are stationed in nearby Concepcion ready to attack.
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
LEE BROWN highlights the latest attempts to undo progressive reforms instated during the presidency of Rafael Correa
US baseless accusations of drug trafficking and the outrageous putting of a bounty on a president of a sovereign country do not bode well, reports PABLO MERIGUET
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