While the economies of various nations are sustained on the labor of migrants, the “ICE-ization” of immigration policy around the world criminalizes their very existence.

In less than three weeks in office, Kast has moved to criminalize migration, raise fuel prices, repeal environmental decrees, and halt the construction of memorial sites commemorating the dictatorship’s atrocities.

During his first week as president of Chile, the ultra-conservative leader has also ordered tax cuts and launched talks with the United States to explore the mining of rare earth metals.

Kast faces a complex challenge ahead: he has promised to align the government with the Trump administration, but China is Chile’s main trading partner. Furthermore, he does not have a secure parliamentary majority, so his government will have to be one of compromise.

La agenda de Kast no eliminará los disturbios, sino que los pospondrá por un tiempo, solo para agudizar su eventual regreso a las calles.

Kast’s agenda will not eliminate unrest but may postpone it for a while, only to sharpen its eventual return to the streets.

As disheartening as this reality may be, it is important to remember that history is not a straight line but a series of changing planes and cycles. The processes of emancipation carry on.

El documento de política de China apoya la “Proclamación de América Latina y el Caribe como Zona de Paz”, lo que contrasta marcadamente con la diplomacia de la fuerza militar que Estados Unidos ha practicado en el siglo XXI.

Las fuerzas progresistas se enfrentan a un desafío fundamental: redefinir un proyecto global para el país, revitalizar las organizaciones de base y resolver la siempre espinosa cuestión de la dirección y el liderazgo político.

China’s policy paper supports the “Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace” — a pointed contrast to US twenty-first century gunboat diplomacy.

Progressive forces face a fundamental challenge: redefining a global project for the country, revitalizing grassroots organizations, and resolving the always thorny issue of political direction and leadership.

José Antonio Kast, who has promised historic tax cuts and a tougher immigration policy, will be Chile’s next president. Center-left candidate Jeanette Jara has conceded defeat.