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Indigenous Mapuche Constituent Assembly representative Elisa Loncon, left, talks after she was elected president of the Constituent Assembly during the inaugural session of the Constitutional Convention
CHILE’S indigenous population is celebrating a historic victory after the election of a Mapuche woman as president of the country’s Constitutional Convention at its first session on Sunday.
Elisa Loncon won 96 votes in the second round of voting among the 155-member assembly tasked with drafting a new constitution for the South American country.
“Indigenous women are a fundamental part of the refoundation of the country. We were always the last in history. Today, we are reborn together. Thanks to the women of all peoples,” she said.
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
For the first time in years, the dominant voice within Chile’s official left comes not from neoliberal centrists but from the world of labour, writes LEONEL POBLETE CODUTTI
RON JACOBS welcomes an investigation of the murders of US leftist activists that tells the story of a solidarity movement in Chile