Conservative parties refuse to sign pro-democracy ‘Santiago Commitment’
The Chilean government prepared a four-point document in commemoration of the 1973 coup and hoped all parties sign it. The Santiago Commitment mentions democracy, human...
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Why a Pinochet disciple gives hope for reconciliation
A new Senate president assumed office in mid-March. While Juan Antonio Coloma was a participant in the dictatorship, he markedly softened his views over the...
Why a hooligan-cum-activist attacks Chilean right-wing leaders
The leader of right-wing UDI party was threatened after giving a TV interview. A far-right group accuses anybody who engages in talks over a new...
Right-wing constituents acknowledge errors and injustices as to indigenous peoples
Fifteen Constitution Assembly constituents of the Chile Vamos pact signed a letter that recognizes mistakes and injustice towards indigenous peoples. The text was delivered to...
UDI Party Founding Member Dead at 76
The party announced the death of Jovino Novoa on Tuesday morning. Novoa was also a spokesperson during the Pinochet dictatorship and later involved in corruption...
The Right to Live in Peace: the UDI in Crisis
A controversy resulting from right-wing Independent Democratic Union’s (UDI) use of Víctor Jara’s anti-war ballad “El Derecho de Vivir en Paz” reflects the crisis this...
Victor Pérez: Party Activist or Interior Minister?
It will cost Interior Minister Victor Pérez to explain why he applied “all the rigor of the law” – one of his favorite phrases –...
Evelyn Matthei, The Mayor Seeking the Presidency Again
SANTIAGO – Evelyn Matthei announced she would run for president a second time. This could pitch her against party colleague, Joaquín Lavín, in next year’s...
The New Chilean ‘Prime Minister’: An Old Guard Conservative
SANTIAGO – Victor Pérez is the new interior minister of Chile. The most important minister post in the country, often compared with that of prime...
A Cabinet to Calm the Ruling Coalition
4:0. This score doesn’t refer to a football match but to the government’s defeat in parliament. Three votes lost in the Lower House and one...