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CHILE has the opportunity to become “the burial ground of neoliberalism” as primaries take place this weekend to select the left candidate in November’s presidential elections.
Daniel Jadue, an architect who is of Palestinian origin, has promised deep changes in the country if he is elected president in what could be an epoch-defining poll.
Mr Jadue, mayor of the the Recoleta district, has emerged as the shock frontrunner, with recent polls showing that he would win in all possible scenarios, including run-offs against his two closest rivals.
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
Communist Party presidential candidate JEANNETTE JARA challenges the Chilean left to stop talking only among comrades and reach out to angry voters abandoned by politics in the race against the far right this November
RON JACOBS welcomes an investigation of the murders of US leftist activists that tells the story of a solidarity movement in Chile