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Chile’s left-wing alliance took power with huge optimism in 2022, but hopes of changing the constitution, or even securing reelection, soon
Pablo Castaño
It’s surprising that a candidate nostalgic for Pinochet’s dictatorship has won the elections. What influence does the memory of the dictatorship have on Chilean politics today?
Giorgio Jackson
Kast’s campaign was skillful in trying to push that issue into the background, not responding to any of the questions over potential pardons for people in prison for their role in the dictatorship’s crimes. In recent years there has been a partially successful right-wing attempt to create a false equivalence between Pinochet and Salvador Allende. It’s a setback compared to the first twenty years of the return to democracy regarding memory, where several right-wing actors had recognized the Pinochet dictatorship’s crimes.
If we conduct a survey in Chile on whether to pardon human rights violators from the dictatorship, a very high percentage of voters would be against it. These right-wing forces build their leadership not so much with regard to the specific facts of the dictatorship but more in terms of the resolve and determination they show. They appeal to people who say, “I like him because he says what he thinks.” It’s performative. In focus groups, voters come out saying, “Even though this guy is a far-rightist, a Pinochet supporter, I’m going to give him a chance because on my scale of concerns security comes before historical memory.” So even accepting that flaw in the candidate, there is a much more priority-driven impulse. I believe all of Chile knew this candidate was a Pinochet supporter, but that wasn’t their priority, the reason they voted for him.
I just remembered the time I tweeted the man who is now fucking president of Chile about fan fiction involving him and one of his politician buddies and he fucking answered me.
Pamela Jiles: "Boric y Jackson son menos inteligentes de lo que ellos creen y no tienen nada de mino"
Pamela Jiles: “Boric y Jackson son menos inteligentes de lo que ellos creen y no tienen nada de mino”
La excéntrica Pamela Jiles salió electa como diputada por el distrito 12 de La Florida que incluye las comunas de La Pintana, Pirque, Puente Alto y San José de Maipo: “Es hora de La Abuela y de los sin moneda”, dijo y confesó que su look infaltable para debut en el Congreso será imprescindible “la pluma fucsia”.
En una auto entrevista que realizó en Revista Paula, la periodista sostuvo que sus…
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Giorgio Jackson descartó que el Frente Amplio asuma responsabilidades políticas en eventual gobierno de Guillier
El diputado reelecto por Revolución Democrática, Giorgio Jackson se refirió a la posibilidad de sumarse a Alejandro Guillier en caso de que el candidato de Fuerza de la Mayoría derrote a Sebastián Piñera en la segunda vuelta.
Al respecto, en conversación con T13 Radio, dijo que “es una de las alternativas que no ha aparecido en ninguna de las orgánicas, ni siquiera como una opción. Por lo tanto,…
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