Chile

Chilean communists take a hit as protests mount

September 19, 2011 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

A group of 50 self proclaimed, "rebel students" on September 12 attacked the Santiago offices of the Chilean Communist Party's (CP) Central Committee.

Chile resists – students and labor join forces

August 30, 2011 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

Anational strike called by the Workers' United Center of Chile (CUT), massed 400, 000 people in the capital city of Santiago and 200,000 elsewhere.

The student leader who put Chile’s government against the ropes

August 23, 2011 By Mikhail Saavedra

Camila Vallejo Dowling, 23, a geography student at the University of Chile and president of the Student Federation of the same university (FECH), has become the most popular and inspiring leader of the current and massive...

Chileans demand free education

July 21, 2011 By Alberto Ampuero

The Chilean education system has been caught in the eye of a storm driven by hundreds of thousands of students and teachers who are demanding democratic education reforms.

Chile’s right-wing president on the ropes

July 20, 2011 By Emile Schepers

Right-wing President Sebastian Piñera's popularity rate is at 31 percent, down from 63 percent approval months earlier.