A key education reform introduced by Chilean President Michele Bachelet is one step closer to enactment, and with it a tightening of controls over otherwise independent schools. On September 29, the Education Committee of Chile’s House of Representatives approved two reforms that would curtail student selection in the private sector for
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> EspañolPolitics in Latin America are as divided as the polarization generated by the writers Carlos Alberto Montaner and Ãlvaro Vargas Llosa. Just as countries in the region have joined the liberal-leaning Pacific Alliance, while others adopt 21st-century socialist policies, admirers and detractors of these two prominent representatives ... Read More
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> In Chile, “terrorism” is a powerful rhetorical device capable of stalling any discussion on the problems of the present. (Flickr) EspañolThe month of September has been scarred by violence in Chile, with the bombing of a subway station in Santiago and an explosion in Viña del Mar. The attacks, within the ... Read More
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> EspañolChilean President Michelle Bachelet is taking steps to achieve the reforms promised during her election campaign. One of the Bachelet’s flagship proposals, tax reform, has now made its way through Congress. On Wednesday evening, after three legislative sessions, the Chamber of Deputies passed the law, which could take effect before ... Read More
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> EspañolFelipe Cuevas, president of the youth sector of Chile’s Independent Democratic Union (UDI), was detained this Thursday afternoon in Caracas. He has been in Venezuela visiting Sairam Rivas, a student leader, and allegedly took photos of the Helicoide intelligence and detainment center. On social media, the ... Read More
EspañolSince the days of classical antiquity, we have known that “those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it,” as Marcus Tullius Cicero said. Nicolás Avellaneda, president of Argentina in the 19th century, repeated this phrase when his country found itself plunged into a deep economic and political crisis. It
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> EspañolA recent poll by the Public Studies Center (CEP), undoubtedly the most prestigious source in Chile, shows President Michele Bachelet as the country’s most well-liked politician, with 63 percent approval and only 12 percent disapproval. President Michelle Bachelet. (Flickr) However, when citizens were asked to rate how ... Read More
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> EspañolAccording to a report released by the Chilean Central Bank on Monday, August 18, Chile’s GDP grew by 1.9 percent in the second quarter of 2014 compared with the previous year, the country’s lowest quarterly growth rate since 2009. In the second quarter of 2014, the ... Read More
EspañolSeeking to overcome the major energy challenges Chile, Minister of Energy Máximo Pacheco and the National Energy Commission (CNE), presented a bill to Congress on Tuesday to reform the country’s power auction system. Minister of Energy Máximo Pacheco introduces electricity reform bill. (Wikimedia) The legislation proposes a greater state role in administering
A group of Peruvian nationalists plan to march toward the Chilean border to lay claim to a small triangular piece of land they say belongs to their country. While the dispute over the territory dates as far back as the 1879 Pacific war — in which Peru lost the Arica and Tarapacá
