Chile
Chile resists – students and labor join forces
August 30, 2011Anational strike called by the Workers' United Center of Chile (CUT), massed 400, 000 people in the capital city of Santiago and 200,000 elsewhere.
Read moreThe student leader who put Chile’s government against the ropes
August 23, 2011Camila 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...
Read moreChileans demand free education
July 21, 2011The 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.
Read moreChile’s right-wing president on the ropes
July 20, 2011Right-wing President Sebastian Piñera's popularity rate is at 31 percent, down from 63 percent approval months earlier.
Read moreChilean Communist freed as Colombia drops charges
June 27, 2011Accused of rounding up money for the FARC, Manuel Olate was detained for three months as a first step to extradition.
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