A polling station in Santiago for the new constitutional assembly. Elections on 7 May put the far right in control of Chile’s constitutional rewrite process, marking a huge blow for the country’s progressive government.Photo: Ivan Alvarado/Reuters

Left out

Report from the election in Chile by Carole Concha Bell

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NI 544 - Palestine - July, 2023
Chile’s new president Gabriel Boric of the Approve Dignity party faces a number of challenges after defeating far-right candidate José Antonio Kast.Photo: Felipe Fegueroa/SOPA/SIPA

Uphill battle

Gabriel Boric Font's mandate is to tackle Chile’s social and economic inequality, reports Carole Concha Bell.

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NI 536 - Abolition - March, 2022
Photo: Lori Barra

The Interview: Isabel Allende

Graeme Green speaks to the Chilean author about her inspiration and the power of fiction as a useful history teacher.

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NI 535 - Romani lives matter - January, 2022

Country Profile: Chile

The photos, facts, and politics of Chile.

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NI 533 - Food justice: who gets to eat? - September, 2021
Bread and roses: Forty-seven years after the coup and the decimation of the Chilean Left, Santiago’s communist mayor-elect Irací Hassler takes the megaphone to celebrate the overwhelming election of progressive candidates.Photo: Felipe Figueroa/SOPA Images/Sipa USA/Alamy

A new horizon

Carol Concha Bell reports on the grassroots victory for the Left in Chile.

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NI 532 - Courage and terror in Myanmar - July, 2021
Holding up in an unkind world: Lelio’s A Fantastic Woman is detailed, convincing and moving.

Mixed Media: Film

A Fantastic Woman, written and directed by Sebastián Lelio; Custody (Jusqu’à la garde), written and directed by Xavier Legrand.

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NI 510 - Black Lives Matter - March, 2018

Happy feet for Chilean penguin campaigners

After concerted campaigning, the Chilean government has turned down a proposal for two open-pit copper and iron mines – that would have sat right next to the nature reserve sheltering the endangered Humboldt penguin. Lydia Noon reports.

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NI 507 - Humans vs robots - November, 2017
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Patricio Guzmán's search for the truth

Roxana Olivera meets the documentary filmmaker renowned for delving into Chile’s dark past.

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NI 487 - Paris climate summit - November, 2015
An unintended legacy: Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship led to musical innovation from Pamela Sepúlveda (pictured top) and others.Keystone Pictures USA/Alamy

The dictator and the popstar

How General Pinochet inadvertently helped create Chile’s thriving music scene. By Anne Hoffman.

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NI 479 - Democracy in the digital era - January, 2015
Chile's agitating students

Chile's agitating students

Eilis O'Neill on the struggle for free, quality, universal education.

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NI 477 - Big oil RIP? - November, 2014
Many of the stories you hear about abortion in Chile involve women who meet horrible ends. ‘I imagined some little girl dead in a field. The stuff they show on TV is always so harsh and judgmental’Photo: Robin Beckham / BEEPstock / Alamy

Valeria's story

Anne Hoffman hears about the struggle for reproductive rights in Chile.

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NI 473 - The politics of language loss - June, 2014
'Newspeaking' to deaf ears

'Newspeaking' to deaf ears

Sixty years on from the publication of 1984, the neoliberals in Chile are still spouting Newspeak, reveals Lezak Shallat.

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NI 427 - Terror takeover - November, 2009
Confucius goes to Chile

Confucius goes to Chile

Lezak Shallat discovers why Latin Americans are learning Chinese.

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NI 423 - China in charge - June, 2009

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Article title From magazine Publication date
Palestine July, 2023
Abolition March, 2022
Romani lives matter January, 2022
Food justice: who gets to eat? September, 2021
Courage and terror in Myanmar July, 2021
The right to the city July, 2019
Black Lives Matter March, 2018
Humans vs robots November, 2017
Paris climate summit November, 2015
Total control - is Monsanto unstoppable? April, 2015
Democracy in the digital era January, 2015
Big oil RIP? November, 2014
Feminism fights back July, 2014
The politics of language loss June, 2014
How the war on pirates became big business September, 2013
Terror takeover November, 2009
China in charge June, 2009
World food crisis March, 1973
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