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Kast: Chile's “democratic route” back to Pinochetism

Karina Nohales, Pablo Abufom — 2025-12-20T07:22:23Z

With José Antonio Kast's victory, Pinochetism returns to power through electoral means, articulating neoliberal restoration, moral authoritarianism, and anti-communism as a response to Chile's crisis.

- IVP611 - December 2025 / Chile

From progressive decline to reactionary advance in Chile

Karina Nohales, Pablo Abufom — 2025-11-28T08:39:28Z

The first round confirms the shift of the electorate towards right-wing positions —with Kast consolidated as leader of the bloc— in a regional context marked by the expansion of reactionary forces.

- IVP610 - November 2025 / Chile

Is a new political cycle opening up in Chile?

Franck Gaudichaud, Pablo Abufom — 2024-02-06T06:33:12Z

“The path for the left and social movements will have to be a path of social struggles and class conflict, feminist and ecosocialist and throughly anticapitalist, aimed at exploding the causes of the crisis, while resolving its most immediate symptoms with short-term material solutions.”

- IV589 - February 2024 / Chile

An End to Neoliberalism? How Chile Drafted New Constitution to Rewrite Pinochet-Era Laws

Amy Goodman, Pablo Abufom — 2022-06-11T20:00:00Z

”[I]t's the first constitution that is democratically written. It was an elected body that is actually representative of a Chilean diversity, including gender parity, representatives of Indigenous peoples, of social movements, like environmentalist groups and feminist movements.”

- IV569 - June 2022 / Chile

Popular triumph in Chile referendum

Karina Nohales, Pablo Abufom — 2020-10-29T08:22:46Z

The popular will has been forcefully expressed in a historic plebiscite. Rather than a finishing point, this huge triumph should represent the signal for starting the construction of a new Chile

- IV549 - October 2020 / Chile