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Xi urges China, Chile to expand cooperation with free trade, open industrial policies
1 month, 1 week ago

Xi urges China, Chile to expand cooperation with free trade, open industrial policies

China Daily  

Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with Chilean President Gabriel Boric on the sidelines of the 31st APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Lima, Peru on Friday. LIMA -- China and Chile should expand bilateral cooperation to more sustainable and broader areas with high-level free trade and more open industrial policies, said President Xi Jinping on Friday. In his meeting with Chilean …

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Chile says emphatic no to proposed new constitution in referendum
2 years, 3 months ago

Chile says emphatic no to proposed new constitution in referendum

Al Jazeera  

Chileans reject proposed progressive constitution that would have replaced the charter dating back to the Pinochet era. Chile has voted resoundingly to reject a proposed new constitution that President Gabriel Boric argued would have ushered in a new progressive era, in a result that far exceeded the expectations of the conservative opposition. The approval camp conceded defeat, with its spokesman …

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Chile’s new constitution finalised after turbulent process
2 years, 5 months ago

Chile’s new constitution finalised after turbulent process

Al Jazeera  

On Monday, the assembly will hand over the finished draft to president Gabriel Boric before it is made available to the public. Dominguez, who is the assembly’s vice president, hailed the constitution as a democratic victory and is confident with the final result: “We’re very excited about it,” he said. “We’ll still be chained to Pinochet as long as we …

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Chilean documentary films: Records of resistance
2 years, 9 months ago

Chilean documentary films: Records of resistance

The Hindu  

“O nly if you are able to recognise yourself in the past is it possible to come to terms with the present. Film—both documentary and drama—played an important role in letting the world know about Pinochet’s atrocities against the country’s dissenters who would mock at the general’s exhortations to his supporters to uphold “God, nation and family”. In today’s Chile …

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Gabriel Boric wins Chile’s presidential election
3 years ago

Gabriel Boric wins Chile’s presidential election

Al Jazeera  

Former student activist pledges to be a president ‘for all Chileans’ after stunning election win. pic.twitter.com/u51WyRuheN — Boris van der Spek December 20, 2021 Boric, who will take office in March, has tapped into public anger at Chile’s market-oriented economic model, widely considered to have helped drive decades of rapid economic growth but stoking inequality. “Boric is promising to be …

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From student protester to leftist hero: Meet the shaggy-haired millennial vying for Chile’s presidency
3 years ago

From student protester to leftist hero: Meet the shaggy-haired millennial vying for Chile’s presidency

CNN  

CNN — Just ten years ago, Gabriel Boric was a student leader in the Chilean capital, rallying against the country’s privatized education system alongside thousands of other students in Santiago. Economist Raphael Bergoeing, who is also the president of Chile´s National Productivity Commission told CNN that many of Boric’s policies “go in the right direction, but I am afraid that …

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Runoff looms in Chile as far-right Kast leads presidential vote
3 years, 1 month ago

Runoff looms in Chile as far-right Kast leads presidential vote

Al Jazeera  

Far-right former legislator Jose Antonio Kast will meet left-wing activist Gabriel Boric in Chile’s presidential runoff on December 19. “They are playing songs that are talking about security and freedom – the two main planks of Kast’s campaign.” At Boric’s offices in Santiago, the mood was equally festive. “I am not going to vote for Gabriel Boric’s candidacy, and I …

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