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Chile’s social housing policy: creating socioeconomic ghettos?

Friday, 03 May 2013 18:15
Written by Sam Edwards
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Why the government is spending millions on demolishing and rebuilding vast tracts of social housing built less than 15 years ago. 

Bajos de Mena — a housing project built on the periphery of Santiago between 1994-2004 — is currently the focus of a recently announced multimillion dollar government project to regenerate deprived areas.

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Chile’s Socialists celebrate 80 years

Thursday, 18 April 2013 19:26
Written by Charlotte Karrlsson-Willis
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After almost a century of turbulence, Chile’s Socialist Party is confident and looking to the future.

Friday marks the 80th anniversary of Chile’s Socialist Party (PS), a milestone reached despite many tumultuous years and the military overthrow of iconic leader Salvador Allende.

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A Chilean take on a pan-American dream

Sunday, 31 March 2013 18:35
Written by Kalynne Dakin
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What’s individual initiative worth in the continent’s latest land of opportunity?

Hope and Faith — the shantytown where Isabel Meliqueo, her three children and eight other families squatted — haplessly scaled the foothills of the Andes on the northeastern periphery of Santiago. Utility companies refused to facilitate access to water or electricity for the unofficial community, which illicitly rigged both despite safety risks. Without a sewage system, they improvised crude toilets and baths.

Beyond statistics: the bleak state of gender violence in Chile

Monday, 25 March 2013 11:14
Written by Eunice Kim
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While the 2010 Femicide Law has successfully sparked legal reform, violence against women remains a critical cultural problem in a country plagued by machismo.
 
During his three years in office, President Sebastián Piñera has been keen to flaunt the strides his administration has made for women’s rights. Much of this is based on his efforts to combat femicide – defined in Chile as the murder of a woman by a current or past romantic partner – through the enactment of a Femicide Law in 2010 and the launch of nationwide media campaigns against gender violence.

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Controversial documentary ignites press freedom debate in Chile

Tuesday, 19 March 2013 18:45
Written by Sam Edwards
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A reclusive media baron, accusations of censorship and a prize-winning documentary that won’t be shown on television: The story of ‘El Diario de Agustín’ resurfaces.

In a triumph of irony “El Diario de Agustín,” a documentary tracing the murky influence of Chile’s historically largest media chain throughout the last half century, has become the center of a censorship battle after the film’s television premier was cancelled.

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