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Chile : “The working classes have dropped out”

30 March 2024 - by Franck Gaudichaud, Luis Reygada

As head of state since March 2022, elected with the hope of reorienting his country on the path of progressivism, Chile’s young president Gabriel Boric (38) seems rather to have refocused his politics, unable to compete with the conservative bloc (...)
Chile: 50 years after the disgrace Neoliberalism at gun point

7 September 2023 - by Eric Toussaint, Roberto González Amador

The coup against the government of Chile’s constitutionally elected president Salvador Allende, which marks its fiftieth anniversary this year, brought to a brutal and violent stop the course of several Latin American countries towards welfare (...)
In Chile, the traditional parties collapse

19 May 2021 - by Franck Gaudichaud

Since Sunday night, the Chilean press is piling on the superlatives in its attempt to describe the political earthquake that has shaken the country from the Andes to the Atacama desert to the cold Magallanes region: an electoral shock, the (...)
Chilean football, between repression and rebellion

10 March 2020 - by Jérôme Duval

Again, the history of football is closely linked to Chilean politics. Let’s go back in time. A few days after the September 11, 1973 coup d’etat against Salvador Allende, the Soviet Union refused to play against Chile in the Estadio nacional de (...)
« We are at the beginning of the end of neoliberalism in Chile »

19 November 2019 - by Franck Gaudichaud

Franck Gaudichaud is a specialist of contemporary Chile, president of the association [France Amerique Latine->https://www.franceameriquelatine.org and member of the editorial board of [Contretemps->https://www.contretemps.eu. He is a political (...)
Chilean copper miners on indefinite strike against BHP

5 March 2017 - by Franck Gaudichaud

About 2500 workers have been on strike since February 9 at the Escondida mine in Chile’s north. Owned by two Anglo-Australian mining giants, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, Escondida is the largest producer of “red gold” in the world. The mine (...)
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After 2011, social struggles and constituent process

25 June 2015 - by Franck Gaudichaud, Sergio Grez, Giulia Willig

Sergio Grez, professor of history at the University of Chile (Santiago) and Franck Gaudichaud, lecturer in Latin American Civilization at the University of Grenoble (and currently visiting researcher at the University of Chile), were interviewed (...)
Chile and Latin America are in the spotlight

13 February 2014 - by Franck Gaudichaud

Interview with Franck Gaudichaud, French political scientist The French political scientist Franck Gaudichaud is in Chile in his research semester for University of Grenoble 3, in which he is professor of Latin American studies. A Doctorate in (...)
The Sunday elections in Santiago, Chile

7 January 2014 - by Franck Gaudichaud

Sunday, December 15, Santiago, Chile, 15:00 hrs: the sun is at its apogee, the sky clear and temporarily free of the polluted halo that clings daily to the foothills of the Andes dominating the city. The suffocating heat of the southern summer (...)
When triumphant neoliberalism begins to crack

3 November 2011 - by Franck Gaudichaud

On September 22, 2011, wearing a dark suit, a purple tie and a light blue shirt, president Sebastián Piñera went up to the rostrum of the General Assembly of the United Nations. The head of the Chilean government - and nevertheless a successful (...)