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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisA health check for democracy in Latin America
This year’s election cycle will tell us whether political systems in the region can deal with social tensions made...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThere’s no new normality without new taxation in Latin America
Exposing the gross inequality that is embedded in the region's tax systems is the first step in beginning to change it.
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaChile: 17 of 155 Constitutional Assembly seats will be reserved for Indigenous groups
On 15 December, the House of Representatives and the Senate in Chile approved a bill ensuring Indigenous...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InvestigationIllegal Chinese fishing in the Galapagos: a threat to the biodiversity of the Latin American Pacific
The growing illegal activity of Chinese fishing vessels in Latin American waters has triggered the search for new...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaHearing the Chilean call: Emotional liberation, reflexivity and the return of 'the people'
The uprising served as an emotional detonator that triggered spiralling distrust of power, of the economic elite,...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWill Chile’s constitutional process satisfy its citizens’ thirst for democracy?
A new constitution that enjoys popular legitimacy promises to fix a profound political crisis in Chile, but its...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaChile during the pandemic: Have the emotions of October subsided?
A study into whether feelings and opinions expressed by Chileans in the wake of the 18/O uprising have been...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InvestigationMight social intelligence save Latin America from its governments in times of Covid-19?
Digital democratic innovation as a response to Covid-19 puts on the table the need for governments to rely on...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaMobility in immobility: Latin American migrants trapped amid COVID-19
States urgently need to rethink their individual responses to COVID-19 and coordinate a collective approach to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Towards virtual parliaments?
This corona crisis may yet be an incentive for policy makers to embrace technological approaches and develop a...
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Published in: ourEconomyHow a communist mayor is defeating privatisation in Chile
The municipality of Recoleta has created an open university, public housing projects and popular pharmacies.
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaGulfs between government offers and citizens' demands in Chile
Piñera's government and its promises in the face of social mobilization. Sebastian Pinera is failing to match the...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe Chilean October: neoliberalism was born and will die in Chile?
The chilean protests in October 2019 highlighted the tensions between neoliberalism and democracy. How will Chile...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionSomething is happening in Colombia
Colombia is going through a cycle of protests, led mainly by young people in the cities. Although it is too early to...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta2019: Protests and disruptive changes in Latin America
In 2019, we saw protests and disruptions take place in several countries across Latin America. Español
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe performance is only the beginning: 'a rapist in your way'
"A rapist in your way" has taken to the streets of the world. It has created a space to call out gender based...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaChile: two months of protests and a little-known story of international solidarity
The ongoing human rights violations committed by the Chilean State are a painful reminder of the Pinochet years. Español
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaChile: an illusion
After weeks of mass daily demonstrations, all the rubbish that Chile had swept under the rug began to be revealed,...
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Published in: ourEconomyThe world is in a revolutionary moment – how can the global left be a serious player?
We need not one but two internationales – a ‘movement of movements’ and a World Party.
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Published in: ourEconomyMining giants like BHP pretend to be solving climate change. But in Latin America, they are deadly.
Communities around the world are resisting BHP's neo-colonial mega-mining projects. Climate activists in the global...