comments feedBy Taroa Zúñiga Silva and Vijay Prasha This article was produced by Globetrotter. Author Bio: Taroa Zúñiga Silva is a writing fellow and the Spanish media coordinator for Globetrotter. She is the co-editor with Giordana García Sojo of Venezuela, Vórtice de la Guerra del Siglo XXI (2020). She is a member of the coordinating committee of Argos: International Observatory on Migration and […]
Chile needs a Communist Party, an interview with Lautaro Carmona, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Chile
September 8, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Fifty years after Chile’s coup, the first year of popular unity
April 10, 2023 by Leave a Comment
A conversation with Miguel Lawner, who remembers life as a former political prisoner of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship while projecting his hope that Salvador Allende’s government could improve the lives of Chileans onto the current progressive government. By Taroa Zúñiga Silva Source: Globetrotter Ten days after the 1973 coup against the Popular Unity (UP) government of President […]
Why lithium power politics are playing out very differently in Chile and Bolivia
August 18, 2022 by Leave a Comment
By Vijay Prashad and Taroa Zúñiga Silva / Globetrotter In late July, a large sinkhole appeared near the town of Tierra Amarilla in Chile’s Copiapó province in the Atacama salt flat. The crater, which has a diameter of more than 100 feet, emerged in one of Chile’s most lucrativeregions for copper and lithium extraction. The nearby Candelaria mining complex—80 percent […]
Chile’s lithium provides profit to the billionaires but exhausts the land and the people
July 31, 2022 by Leave a Comment
By Vijay Prashad and Taroa Zúñiga Silva / Globetrotter The Atacama salt flat in northern Chile, which stretches 1,200 square miles, is the largest source of lithium in the world. We are standing on a bluff, looking over la gran fosa, the great pit that sits at the southern end of the flat, which is shielded […]
PAHO Director calls for immunization gaps to be closed for all vaccines, including COVID-19
April 25, 2022 by Leave a Comment
2.7 million children in the Americas did not receive the vaccines needed to keep them healthy in 2020, while around 230 million people have still not received a single dose of COVID-19 vaccine in the region. Roseau, Dominica, DC, 25 April, 2022 (PAHO) – In 2020, 2.7 million children in the Americas did not receive the essential […]
Reuters ICYMI – From Myanmar to Chile, citizens make their vision for the future clear
December 22, 2021 by Leave a Comment
From Josh London, CMO, Reuters Reuters journalists captured rare footage of some of the men and women in Myanmar who left their lives as civilians to become guerilla fighters after the military coup in February. “Taking up arms is the only option for us” said a 34-year-old former fitness trainer, a new recruit who has a tattoo […]
Donald Trump, Xi Jinping set for November 17 meeting in Chile to sign interim trade war deal: source
October 29, 2019 by Leave a Comment
By Zhou Xin From South China Morning News Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump set to meet on the sidelines of the Apec summit in Chile next month, a source says The two state leaders are expected to sign an interim trade deal ‘if everything goes smoothly’ Chinese President Xi Jinping and […]
Government of Chile offers Masters Scholarship in Development and International Cooperation
August 25, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Thursday, August 22, 2019 — The Government of Chile, through its Chilean Agency for International Cooperation and Development, has announced the Horizontal Cooperation Scholarship Call for the Masters Programme in Development and International Cooperation in Santiago, Chile from March 2020 to February 2022. All Member States of the Caribbean Community are invited to submit nominations of suitably […]
Miami Cancer Institute names Horacio Asbun, M.D., FACS, Chief of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery
February 26, 2019 by Leave a Comment
MIAMI, FL – February 25, 2019 – Surgeon Horacio Asbun, M.D., FACS, has joined Miami Cancer Institute, the region’s premier cancer treatment and research destination and part of Baptist Health South Florida. Dr. Asbun will serve as Chief of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery for Miami Cancer Institute and throughout Baptist Health. He brings to the role […]
Extreme poverty increases in Latin America and the Caribbean
January 28, 2019 by Leave a Comment
From BWI The Social Panorama of Latin America report from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), indicates that extreme poverty had its worst rate for nine years in the region: 10.2 per cent. According to the report, this is the result of the weak performance of regional economies. The extreme poverty has been increasing […]
