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Chile Bans ‘Discrimination Against Mutants and Genetically Altered People’
May 13th, 2022 
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No Comments »Chile’s Process of Change
January 2nd, 2022 Awake Goy The 2021 presidential election in Chile has resulted in the victory of the left candidate Gabriel Boric. With nearly 56% of the vote, he has won by a margin of more than 10 percentage points. In absolute terms, this is a record majority, with some 4.6 million votes cast for Boric, putting him almost 1 […]
Pink tide rising? Gabriel Boric wins power in Chile, birthplace of neoliberalism
January 1st, 2022 Awake Goy Without even considering the role of the ongoing pandemic, it’s been a difficult year politically for the progressive left in the United States and most of its close allies like Canada and the United Kingdom. While it helped to get leaders like Pramila Jayapal and Cori Bush on cable news networks where they could deliver […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: birthplace, boric, Chile, gabriel, neoliberalism, power, rising No Comments »Left-wing Victory in Chile
December 26th, 2021 Awake Goy The 2021 presidential election in Chile has resulted in the victory of the Left candidate Gabriel Boric. With nearly 56% of the vote, he has won by a margin of more than 10 percentage points – most presidents had hitherto secured only four or five point leads. In absolute terms, this is a record majority, with some […]
Left Smiles in Chile
December 23rd, 2021 Awake Goy In the age of rising tide of neoliberal authoritarianism and populist reactionary religious politics, the electoral victory of left brings smiles to all progressive forces beyond Chile. The people of Chile defeated José Antonio Kast-a committed follower of the country’s former dictator, Gen. Augusto Pinochet who established neoliberal authoritarianism in Chile before it spread worldwide. […]
Chile: Another Good-Sized Nail In Neoliberalism’s Coffin
December 23rd, 2021 Awake Goy Men [and women]make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. – Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire […]
Irina Karamanos: The Greek Partner of Chile’s New President Gabriel Boric
December 20th, 2021 Awake Goy New Chilean President Gabriel Boriz with his partner, Irina Karamanos. Credit: Instagram screenshot The partner of the incoming Chilean President is a Greek-Chilean woman named Irina Karamanos; a feminist activist, she considers the term “First Lady” outdated now that “times have changed,” she says. The 32-year-old Greek woman is the partner of the newly-elected President […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: Chile, gabriel, greek, irina, karamanos, partner, president No Comments »Historic Win For Leftist Gabriel Boric in Chile Presidential Election
December 20th, 2021 Awake Goy Apruebo Dignidad candidate Gabriel Boric has won Chile’s presidential elections in a historic victory for the Left in Latin America. Left-wing former student leader Gabriel Boric has beat out far-right candidate Jose Antonio Kast with nearly 100% of the votes tallied, according to figures published by Chile’s electoral authorities SERVEL. Gabriel Boric has become the nation’s youngest leader […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: boric, Chile, election, gabriel, historic, Leftist, presidential No Comments »Chile’s Next President Is A Leftist Millennial
December 20th, 2021 Awake Goy SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A leftist millennial who rose to prominence during anti-government protests was elected Chile’s next president Sunday after a bruising campaign against a free-market firebrand likened to Donald Trump. With more than 90% of polling stations reporting, Gabriel Boric had 56% of the votes, compared to 44% for his opponent, lawmaker José […]
A Pro-Pinochet Presidential Candidate Threatens To Swing Chile To The Far Right
December 18th, 2021 Awake Goy Former Chilean congressman José Antonio Kast is such an enormous fan of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the brutal right-wing dictator who ruled the country from 1973 to 1990, that he abandoned his far-right political party four years ago because, in his eyes, it wasn’t devoted enough to the advancement of the late tyrant’s legacy. This weekend, […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: candidate, Chile, Pinochet, presidential, right, swing, threatens No Comments »Chile Is at the Political Crossroads: Social Renewal or Decades of Painful Neoliberal Policy
December 17th, 2021 Awake Goy Antonio Kast “If [Augusto] Pinochet were alive, he would vote for me,” said José Antonio Kast in 2017, during the Chilean presidential election when he ran as an independent candidate. This was an especially provocative statement made by him out of the many he has made over the years—he had also said that “Chileans need God,” during his campaign […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: Chile, crossroads, decades, painful, political, renewal, social No Comments »Chile congress approves same-sex marriage bill
December 8th, 2021 Awake Goy The measure has the support of President Sebastian Pinera, who must sign it into law, and will also enable married same-sex couples to adopt children. The bill got the green light from the upper house of congress, or senate, Tuesday, and was immediately given the final stamp of approval by the lower Chamber of Deputies […]
Chile Is At The Dawn Of A New Political Era
October 22nd, 2021 Awake Goy Above Photo: Chileans celebrate the results of the national plebiscite on setting up a Constitutional convention in October 2020. AS Chile. The search for the new era in Chile has two important avenues: the writing of the new constitution, which is what the 155 members of the Constitutional Convention are doing, and the presidential election […]
Chile Is Taking The Final Steps Of Dismantling Dictatorship
October 4th, 2021 Awake Goy Renowned Chilean author and human rights activist Ariel Dorfman delivered these remarks at the 45th anniversary Letelier-Moffitt Memorial Program on September 19, 2021. Renowned Chilean author and human rights activist Ariel Dorfman delivered these remarks at the 45th anniversary Letelier-Moffitt Memorial Program on September 19, 2021. A collection of photos from the event has been made available […]
The Other 9/11: Salvador Allende and Chile
September 11th, 2021 Awake Goy On September 11 the world rightly pays homage to the nearly 3000 victims of the horrible 9/11 attack in the USA. However on this day we should in addition also remember the perhaps even higher number of victims of the US-assisted military coup in Chile on September 11 1973 which also resulted in the highly […]
Daniel Jadue is the Palestinian candidate for Chile’s presidency
June 9th, 2021 Awake Goy Daniel Jadue is looking around his office for a photo album. I asked him about how he became the mayor of Recoleta, a municipality of Chile’s capital Santiago, and about his run for the presidency. He became distracted. He wanted to show me something. We had stumbled onto the fact that Daniel comes from a […]
Chile Is Reborn: A (Political) Earthquake Emerged From The Streets
May 24th, 2021 Awake Goy Above Photo: Pressenza Agency. What happened in Chile this past weekend seems to be one of those historic events that cannot but follow its inexorable course. It is like an enormous, powerful tsunami wave whose size cannot be appreciated on the high seas, until it comes crashing into the coast, stunning everyone with its massive […]
Chile passes single-use plastic regulation that will reduce 23,000 tons of plastic waste a year
May 23rd, 2021 Awake Goy Image Credit: REUTERS/Cristobal Saavedra The Chilean legislature unanimously passed a plastic regulation that ends single-use plastics within the food industry. The regulation is said to reduce the country’s plastic waste by 23,000 tons every year. The new law will “reduce single-use plastic pollution by banning hard-to-recycle items from being served in restaurants or through delivery […]
Chile: Left, Independent Forces Win Majority Of Constituents
May 18th, 2021 Awake Goy Above photo: For the second day in a row, polling stations reported a significantly low turnout, especially in the lower income districts of the country and among the younger people. @ChileTodayNews. According to Chile’s Electoral Service (Servel), Chile’s right-wing has suffered a significant loss, as their Vamos por Chile list has only received 36 of […]
Game Changer: Chile Hails Sinovac’s 67% Effectiveness in Study
April 18th, 2021 Awake Goy Dispensed vials of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine are seen as the Thai resort island of Phuket rushes to vaccinate its population amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, and ahead of a July 1 ending of strict quarantine for overseas visitors, to bring back tourism revenue in Phuket, Thailand, April 1, 2021. Photo: REUTERS/Jorge Silva China’s […]
