Home » Posts tagged 'chile'
Tag Archives: chile
Burn After Wearing
Burn After Wearing A mountain of used clothes appeared in Chile’s desert. Then it went up in flames. Cheng Hwa This story was produced by Grist and co-published with El País. A Spanish-language version can be read here. Reporting was supported by the Joan Konner Program in the Journalism of Ideas. On the morning of June 12, 2022, Ángela Astudillo, […]
Exclusive: Secret cables reveal Britain interfered with elections in Chile
Exclusive: Secret cables reveal Britain interfered with elections in Chile Demonstrators march through Santiago de Chile in 2018 to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the coup that overthrew Chile’s left-wing President Salvador Allende. (Photo: EPA / Alberto Valdés) Less Declassified Foreign Office files show that Britain conducted a covert propaganda offensive to stop Chilean leader Salvador […]
“Panic, Pure Panic” – Chilean Peso Collapses To 800/USD, Blowing Through Record Lows
“Panic, Pure Panic” – Chilean Peso Collapses To 800/USD, Blowing Through Record Lows The Chilean peso extended a four-day losing streak on Tuesday, sinking by the most in eight years, to a new record low at 800/USD. Bearish market sentiment, political chaos, and a national strike intended to ratchet up pressure on the government and its plans to […]
How to Survive Riots and Civil Unrest
How to Survive Riots and Civil Unrest As the world seems to be on fire in countries across the planet, the threat of civil unrest and riots certainly feels like it’s increasing. People are responding with rage to perceived injustices, and whether that rage is warranted or not isn’t the point of this article. Often when […]
Over 1 Million Chileans Take to the Streets to Demand Political Reforms, Change to Country’s Neoliberal Economic System
Over 1 Million Chileans Take to the Streets to Demand Political Reforms, Change to Country’s Neoliberal Economic System “Chile is not the same as it was yesterday.” Chilean President Sebastián Piñera on Saturday said he would reshuffle his cabinet after over 1 million Chileans poured into city streets across the country Friday to demand structural reforms to the […]
The 12-Step Method of Regime Change
The 12-Step Method of Regime Change On 15 September 1970, US President Richard Nixon and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger authorised the US government to do everything possible to undermine the incoming government of the socialist president of Chile, Salvador Allende. Nixon and Kissinger, according to the notes kept by CIA Director Richard Helms, wanted […]
Batteries, mine production, lithium and the “cobalt crunch”
Batteries, mine production, lithium and the “cobalt crunch” Growth in Li-ion batteries depends on a number of imponderables, such as how rapidly the world converts to electric vehicles, how quickly battery manufacturing capacity can be ramped up and where the electricity to power millions of EVs will come from. This post ignores these issues, concentrating […]
CHILE, WORLD’S FOURTH LARGEST SILVER PRODUCER: Mine Supply Down 20%
CHILE, WORLD’S FOURTH LARGEST SILVER PRODUCER: Mine Supply Down 20% Silver mine supply from the world’s fourth-largest silver producer fell significantly at the beginning of 2018. According to Chile’s Ministry of Mines, domestic silver production in January declined 20% versus the same month last year. Chile’s silver production has been falling considerably since its recent […]
Americans Trust ‘Our’ Intelligence Agencies. Should We?
Americans Trust ‘Our’ Intelligence Agencies. Should We? The record is clear that ‘our’ (that is, the ruling Establishment’s) intelligence agencies, such as the CIA, have lied to the public many times, actually lie routinely — but these lies are always revealed only decades later, by historians, which is too late, because the damage was already […]
How Chile’s electricity sector can go 100% renewable
How Chile’s electricity sector can go 100% renewable If pumped hydro plants that use the sea as the lower reservoir can be put into large-scale operation Chile would be able to install at least 10 TWh of pumped hydro storage along its northern coast. With it Chile could convert enough intermittent solar into dispatchable form […]
The Valhalla solar/pumped hydro project
The Valhalla solar/pumped hydro project When and if it gets built the Valhalla project will consist of a 600 MW solar farm and a 300 MW pumped hydro plant which, it is claimed, will in combination deliver continuous baseload power to Northern Chile. If the project works as planned it will indeed deliver continuous baseload […]
Where the TPP Could Lose
Where the TPP Could Lose After years of secret negotiations and silence in the media, the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) has risen to headline news. Now that Congress has voted to give President Obama “fast-track” trade promotion authority to push the deal through the House and Senate with limited debate and no amendments, efforts to finalize the agreement […]
7 Fascist Regimes Enthusiastically Supported by America
7 Fascist Regimes Enthusiastically Supported by America The U.S. treated Cuba as an enemy while backing deeply oppressive Latin American regimes. President Barack Obama inspired a great deal of debate when, in December, he asserted that it was time for the United States to begin to normalize relations with Cuba and start loosening the embargo […]
The Three Types of US ‘Regime Change’
January 22, 2022
The Three Types of US ‘Regime Change’ When the U.S. overthrows a foreign government it either works from the top down, the bottom up, or through military invasion, writes Joe Lauria. Chilean presidential palace during U.S.-backed coup, Sept. 11, 1973. (Library of the Chilean National Congress/Wikipedia) Throughout the long, documented history of the United States illegally overthrowing […]
Continue Reading →