South America

REPORT: Andre Vltchek on Chile’s brutal ‘Corona Coup’

In EP 300 of the Sunday Wire radio program, we spoke with intrepid author and writer, Andre Vltchek, to discuss the incredible still unfolding in Chile, where the government of Sebastian Pinera has managed to engineer a “Corona Coup”, where the autocratic government has used the COVID ‘Lockdown’ quarantine and martial law to effectively sideline any political opposition whi

The end of Mercosur

Submitted by InfoBrics, authored by Lucas Leiroz, research fellow in international law at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro…
For many years, the situation of the South American integration project has been moving slowly and with strong signs of decay. The various political, economic and social changes that have taken place in recent years – marked by a strong neoliberal shift in South America – have contributed to the weakening of the bloc.

A Policeman, A Pastor and A Palestinian: The ‘Chilestinians’ as a Model for Palestinian Unity

I was only introduced to the term ‘Chilestinians’ last February at a conference in Istanbul, during a presentation by the Director of the Palestinian Federation of Chile, Anuar Majluf.
When Majluf referred to the well-rooted Palestinian community in Chile, who number between 450,000 and half a million, using that unfamiliar and peculiar phrase, I smiled. Others did, too.