Between pots and pans: Why ‘cacerolazos’ exist
by Barbara Hermosilla On Aug. 4 a massive protest against for-profit education was expected. The government and the Santiago municipality communicated that this protest was not authorized because they wanted to assure the population’s security and because the students had rejected the minister’s proposal presented one day before. On Aug. 3, the government delivered a [...]
Surprises in cabinet reshuffle
There were some major surprises in the government reshuffle announced today by President Sebastián Piñera. The big surprise was the movement of former Education Minister Joaquín Lavín to the Ministry of Cooperation and Planning (Mideplan). He will be replaced by former Ministry of Justice, Felipe Bulnes. A number of other ministers announced their resignation at [...]
In defence of the cause
Massive protests took place yesterday across all of Chile, to demand free and better education. While many sections of the media emphasised the vandalism caused by a small section of antisocial students, with respect to the organisers, the university student leaders and teaching staff, everything happened with order. At 11am, the Santiago march started in [...]
Jamiroquai in pictures
British funk bank Jamiroquai played the Movistar Arena on Friday, April 29th in front of thousands of adoring fans. Here’s the show in pictures. All photos by Bárbara Hermosilla
Teletón 2010: “Let’s go Chile!”
Let’s Go Chile! shouted Don Francisco at the kick off of this year’s Teletón. With a speech about the Bicentenary year, reminding us of the two more difficult episodes faced by Chile this year, the earthquake and the rescue of the miners, Mario Kreutsberg officially opened this solidarity campaign last night. The 33 miners started [...]
