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Antonio Kast “If [Augusto] Pinochet were alive, he would vote for me,” said José Antonio Kast in 2017, during the Chilean presidential election when he ran as an independent candidate. This was an especially provocative statement made by him out of the many he has made over the years—he had also said that “Chileans need God,” during his campaign […]
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Chile Is at the Political Crossroads: Social Renewal or Decades of Painful Neoliberal Policy
December 17th, 2021 
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No Comments »Chile congress approves same-sex marriage bill
December 8th, 2021 Awake Goy The measure has the support of President Sebastian Pinera, who must sign it into law, and will also enable married same-sex couples to adopt children. The bill got the green light from the upper house of congress, or senate, Tuesday, and was immediately given the final stamp of approval by the lower Chamber of Deputies […]
Chile Is At The Dawn Of A New Political Era
October 22nd, 2021 Awake Goy Above Photo: Chileans celebrate the results of the national plebiscite on setting up a Constitutional convention in October 2020. AS Chile. The search for the new era in Chile has two important avenues: the writing of the new constitution, which is what the 155 members of the Constitutional Convention are doing, and the presidential election […]
Chile Is Taking The Final Steps Of Dismantling Dictatorship
October 4th, 2021 Awake Goy Renowned Chilean author and human rights activist Ariel Dorfman delivered these remarks at the 45th anniversary Letelier-Moffitt Memorial Program on September 19, 2021. Renowned Chilean author and human rights activist Ariel Dorfman delivered these remarks at the 45th anniversary Letelier-Moffitt Memorial Program on September 19, 2021. A collection of photos from the event has been made available […]
The Other 9/11: Salvador Allende and Chile
September 11th, 2021 Awake Goy On September 11 the world rightly pays homage to the nearly 3000 victims of the horrible 9/11 attack in the USA. However on this day we should in addition also remember the perhaps even higher number of victims of the US-assisted military coup in Chile on September 11 1973 which also resulted in the highly […]
Daniel Jadue is the Palestinian candidate for Chile’s presidency
June 9th, 2021 Awake Goy Daniel Jadue is looking around his office for a photo album. I asked him about how he became the mayor of Recoleta, a municipality of Chile’s capital Santiago, and about his run for the presidency. He became distracted. He wanted to show me something. We had stumbled onto the fact that Daniel comes from a […]
Chile Is Reborn: A (Political) Earthquake Emerged From The Streets
May 24th, 2021 Awake Goy Above Photo: Pressenza Agency. What happened in Chile this past weekend seems to be one of those historic events that cannot but follow its inexorable course. It is like an enormous, powerful tsunami wave whose size cannot be appreciated on the high seas, until it comes crashing into the coast, stunning everyone with its massive […]
Chile passes single-use plastic regulation that will reduce 23,000 tons of plastic waste a year
May 23rd, 2021 Awake Goy Image Credit: REUTERS/Cristobal Saavedra The Chilean legislature unanimously passed a plastic regulation that ends single-use plastics within the food industry. The regulation is said to reduce the country’s plastic waste by 23,000 tons every year. The new law will “reduce single-use plastic pollution by banning hard-to-recycle items from being served in restaurants or through delivery […]
Chile: Left, Independent Forces Win Majority Of Constituents
May 18th, 2021 Awake Goy Above photo: For the second day in a row, polling stations reported a significantly low turnout, especially in the lower income districts of the country and among the younger people. @ChileTodayNews. According to Chile’s Electoral Service (Servel), Chile’s right-wing has suffered a significant loss, as their Vamos por Chile list has only received 36 of […]
Game Changer: Chile Hails Sinovac’s 67% Effectiveness in Study
April 18th, 2021 Awake Goy Dispensed vials of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine are seen as the Thai resort island of Phuket rushes to vaccinate its population amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, and ahead of a July 1 ending of strict quarantine for overseas visitors, to bring back tourism revenue in Phuket, Thailand, April 1, 2021. Photo: REUTERS/Jorge Silva China’s […]
Chile’s COVID Police State & Smart Cities with Johnny Vedmore
April 17th, 2021 Awake Goy Podcast Episodes In this episode, Whitney and Unlimited Hangout contributor Johnny Vedmore discuss the situation in Chile during COVID lockdowns and its government’s efforts to declare a war on domestic terror targeting Chile’s indigenous community. Also discussed are the real reasons behind Chile’s much lauded COVID vaccination campaign, including the smart city connection. April 16, […]
Chile: Elderly Woman Denied Entry to Supermarket After Failing to Obtain Government Permission to Buy Food
April 12th, 2021 Awake Goy Prominent figures are receiving criticism for undermining confidence in the COVID-19 vaccine by vowing to continue to wear masks and avoid normal activities even after taking the shot, with MSNBC’s Joy Reid being the latest example. Reid said that even after taking her second coronavirus shot, she’d be too scared to return to any semblance […]
Neoliberalism Was Born In Chile; Neoliberalism Will Die In Chile
March 13th, 2021 Awake Goy Above photo: Daniel Jadue speaks to Vijay Prashad. Daniel Jadue is the mayor of Recoleta, a commune that is part of the expanding city of Santiago, Chile. His office is on the sixth floor of a municipal building in whose lower reaches one can find a pharmacy, an optical shop, and a bookstore run by […]
Chile: Political Parties Urge Dissolution Of Carabineros
February 10th, 2021 Awake Goy Above photo: A man holds a sign reading, “Carabineros, murderers of the people,” Santiago, Chile, Feb. 8, 2021. EFE. “Carabineros’ brutality is part of the nefarious legacy of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship,” Senator Navarro recalled. Chile’s political parties and social leaders on Monday demanded the dissolution of the Military police (Carabineros) three days after an agent shot […]
CIA/Kissinger Organized Crime Killing of Allende in Chile
January 29th, 2021 Awake Goy by Admin · Published January 29, 2021 · Updated January 29, 2021 [embedded content] Comment: Henry(ietta) Kissinger is a sick deviant who likes to sodomize little mind controlled boys at the Plaza Hotel. These are the Satanic Sick F___s that run Amerika-Child rapists!
Chile regrets panic triggered by mistaken tsunami warning after quake
January 24th, 2021 Awake Goy Authorities in Chile said on Saturday they regretted spreading panic with a mistaken tsunami warning calling for people to get out of coastal areas following an earthquake in Antarctica. The interior ministry said on Twitter that a tremor of magnitude 7.1 struck at 8.36 p.m. 216 km northeast of the O’Higgins Chilean scientific base and […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: Chile, mistaken, panic, regrets, triggered, Tsunami, warning No Comments »Chile ‘accidentally’ issues NATIONWIDE tsunami & evacuation warning only meant for Antarctic base after 7.0 quake
January 24th, 2021 Awake Goy A 7.0-magnitude earthquake and several aftershocks have rattled Chile, triggering panic as authorities issued a nationwide tsunami alert while only seeking to evacuate the country’s largest research station in Antarctica. The strongest of over half a dozen jolts struck South Shetland Islands 216 kilometers northeast of Chile’s O’Higgins scientific base at 8:36pm, while another 5.8 […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: accidentally, Chile, evacuation, issues, nationwide, Tsunami, warning No Comments »Spectators brave heavy rain to see solar eclipse in Chile
December 16th, 2020 Awake Goy Braving heavy rain, people gathered on the shores of Lake Villarrica in Pucon, Chile, to see a solar eclipse, which plunged the surrounding area into darkness. There was a moment where the clouds opened up and allowed people to witness the eclipse, prompting shouts from the crowds, who had gathered in the Pucon region. South […]
Hundreds protest in Chile demanding access to pensions
November 28th, 2020 Awake Goy Hundreds of demonstrators in Chile held a protest on Friday against the government’s request to revoke a bill that would allow people to withdraw some of their pension funds early, to help them cope with the current economic crisis. They blocked the main roads of the capital Santiago and tried to reach the presidential palace. […]
Radical Neoliberalism Was Born And Will Die In Chile
November 1st, 2020 Awake Goy Above photo: Pressenza News Agency. A wave of Indigenous peoples supporting the Luis Arce-David Choquehuanca presidential ticket defeated the main right-wing candidate, Carlos Mesa by 20 points, restoring democracy to Bolivia. Just days later around 80% of Chilean voters decided by referendum to re-found their nation with a new constitution. These momentous events represent twin […]
Chile Won’t Become a Developed Country If It Doesn’t Abandon Socialist Communism
October 30th, 2020 Awake Goy For many years, Chile was the exception in Latin America, with an unprecedented model of sustained economic development. Contrary to populism and demagoguery, the Chilean recipe for the last forty-five years was respect for private property and entrepreneurial freedom. Indeed, the phrase “Chilean miracle” was even used by economist Milton Friedman to describe […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: abandon, become, Chile, country, developed, doesn, socialist No Comments »Chile To Mark First Anniversary Of Its Social Outbreak
October 17th, 2020 Awake Goy Above photo: A protester waves a Chilean flag during a protest in Santiago, Oct. 9, 2020. EFE. Over the last year, police brutality has left over 30 people dead and over 100 citizens injured. Chile’s Constituent Unity Pact (CUP) called on citizens to commemorate the first anniversary of the social outbreak with pot-banging, honking, cycling, caravans, […]
Chile: Protesters face off against police ahead of referendum
October 3rd, 2020 Awake Goy Protesters faced off against police in Santiago’s iconic Plaza Italia square on Friday ahead of an October 25 referendum that could pave the way for Chile’s constitution to be rewritten. A young man was seriously injured when he fell from a bridge near the plaza, which has become the epicentre of a revolt against the […]
Brazil, Israel to join global vaccine facility, as UAE, Chile also sign up
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Araucanians (Mapuche): Homeric Spartans who colonised Chile
August 2nd, 2020 Awake Goy Araucanians (Mapuche): Homeric Spartans who colonised Chile November 16, 2018 Published in Myths & Legends Featured Lautaro an Araucanian chief leader According to their own legends, the Mapuche or so called Araucanians by the Spanish, arrived in southern Chile about 3.000 ago at Homer’s time. Arrival date is not exactly known. They have the proof […]
All 34 Bishops In Chile Suddenly Resign Over ‘Absolutely Deplorable’ Pedophile Priest Scandal
May 23rd, 2018 Awake Goy All 34 bishops in Chile have tendered their resignations in the wake of yet another pedophile priest scandal in which high level officials covered up the institutionalized sexual abuse of minors – even threatening officials tasked with investigating sex crimes and the destruction of evidence. by Tyler Durden, Guest writer Thirty-one active bishops and three […]
Posted in Jewish News, World News Tags: absolutely, bishops, Chile, deplorable, pedophile, resign, suddenly No Comments »Nazi pedophile sect: German prosecutors visit Chile for updates on sex crimes investigation of a WWII immigrant ‘colony’
April 25th, 2018 Awake Goy The progress of an investigation into an infamous Nazi pedophile sect that abused and tortured children has prompted German prosecutors to visit Chile. Colonia Dignidad was initially established as an immigrant community by a group of Germans after World War II. The 13,000-hectare (50 sq mile) mountain “colony” lay in an isolated region 350km […]
Posted in World News Tags: Chile, Crimes, German, pedophile, prosecutors, updates, visit No Comments »Nazi pedophile sect: German prosecutors probe sex crimes of Chile’s WWII immigrant ‘colony’
April 25th, 2018 Awake Goy Colonia Dignidad was initially established as an immigrant community by a group of Germans after World War II. The 13,000-hectare (50 sq mile) mountain “colony” lay in an isolated region 350km (217 miles) south of Santiago. It was home to approximately 300 people from Nazi Germany and their descendents. In 1961 it was taken over […]
Posted in World News Tags: Chile, Crimes, German, immigrant, pedophile, probe, prosecutors No Comments »Magnitude 6.2 earthquake hits Chile, no damage reported
April 10th, 2018 Awake Goy A strong 6.2 earthquake struck Chile’s central region on Tuesday. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake struck about 34 miles (54 kilometers) southwest of Ovalle, Chile at 7:19 a.m. local time. The USGS said it was detected at a depth of 47 miles […]
‘Great Concern’: Chile Calls on israel to Release Ahed #Tamimi
February 18th, 2018 Awake Goy ‘Great Concern’: Chile Calls on Israel to Release Ahed Tamimi The Palestinian Federation in Chile calls for Ahed Tamimi’s freedom: ‘Will Chile say something?’ (Photo: via Twitter) Amid a campaign by the large local Palestinian community, the Chilean government expressed Friday its “great concern” over the case of Palestinian iconic teen Ahed Tamimi, who is […]
