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CHILEAN communists were among the big winners in elections to the country’s constitutional convention, taking 28 seats as the left scored a major victory in Sunday’s election. Their success came as the centre-left Apruebo list won 24 of the 155 seats in the convention, with the right-wing Vamos por Chile list taking just 36 seats — less than a quarter of the total. While it received the highest total number of votes (762,282), Vamos por Chile hoped to win at least a third of the seats in order to block significant changes to be included in the new constitution. Each article of the ne...

Daniel Jadue, the mayor of Recoleta and Communist Party candidate for the presidential elections. | PCC Working and marginalized people in Chile can now see possibilities of relief from the political grief of decades. A new constitution is in the works. And Daniel Jadue, author of an astonishingly progressive program as mayor of Recoleta municipality, a commune in the north of Santiago Province, is a presidential candidate. The election is set for Nov. 21, 2021. Chileans will vote on May 15-16 to select 155 members of a constitutional convention. They will also choose city council members, ma...

Daniel Jadue, the mayor of Recoleta and Communist Party candidate for the presidential elections. | PCC Working and marginalized people in Chile can now see possibilities of relief from the political grief of decades. A new constitution is in the works. And Daniel Jadue, author of an astonishingly progressive program as mayor of Recoleta municipality, a commune in the north of Santiago Province, is a presidential candidate. The election is set for Nov. 21, 2021. Chileans will vote on May 15-16 to select 155 members of a constitutional convention. They will also choose city council members, ma...

3 Min Read SANTIAGO (Reuters) - General Manuel Baquedano Gonzalez, a 19th century hero of Chile’s War of the Pacific, is caught in a new battle: his statue drenched in blood-red paint and set on fire as protests reignite in the Andean country’s capital. Slideshow ( 3 images ) Positioned in Santiago’s iconic Plaza Italia, the center of protests that began in October 2019, it has become a lightning rod for anger at the establishment. It has been drenched in paint, repainted custard yellow by the authorities, daubed in graffiti, bashed with sledgehammers and set alight during protests that...

Author Statue covered in paint and flags during a protest at Santiagio’s Plaza Italia square. Santiago, Chile – December 6, 2019. Roberto Baeza / Shutterstock.com Over the past year and a half, Chile has been making global headlines. Beginning in October, 2019, a wave of historic insurrections swept the country. Kicked off by high school students protesting against a transportation fare hike in Santiago, the cycle of struggle reached a new milestone one year later with an overwhelming vote to replace the old, Pinochet-era constitution. The significance of this revolt stretches far beyo...