Category Archives: Chile Sin Queso

Piñera: schooled again!

Posted on January 22, 2010 by Sabina Becker

And this time, he gets spanked by a fellow Chilean (see above), one with actual governmental experience: The Chilean minister of exterior relations, Mariano Fernández, recommended on Thursday that the president-elect, Sebastián Piñera, not give any opinions on international matters … Continue reading →

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Chavecito schools Piñera (and US Dems, too)

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Sabina Becker

Watch the video, and you’ll hear a young voice yelling “We love you!” She speaks for a lot of people…And this is why we love him… The president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, warned his Chilean counterpart, Sebastián Piñera, not to … Continue reading →

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Opus Dei: A Silent Crusade

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Sabina Becker

Video in Spanish. A 2005 documentary about the secretive cult-within-Catholicism, Opus Dei, and specifically, its inordinate political and economic influence in Chile. Opus Dei, also known as La Obra (The Work) in Spanish, was founded in 1928 in Spain by … Continue reading →

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Chile election: Piñera wins. Now what?

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Sabina Becker

“Chile: Right-wing Pinochetist oligarchy in power.”I have a lot of feelings about this, and none of them are what I’d call good: After winning the second round of the presidential election in Chile by a slim margin, multimillionaire Sebastián Piñera … Continue reading →

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Evo just keeps callin’ it…

Posted on January 15, 2010 by Sabina Becker

Can you spot the parallels in this montage of awkward side-by-sides? Evo can, and he can also make a solid prediction based on it… The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, said today that the de facto leader of Honduras, Roberto … Continue reading →

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Vargas Loser gets booed in Chile

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Sabina Becker

Shoulda stuck to what you were good at, Mario…And he shoulda stayed on the left, too. Then maybe things like this wouldn’t be happening to him now: The heckling of writer Mario Vargas Llosa and the abrupt appearance of the … Continue reading →

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Barrick Gold disgraces Canada in Chile, too

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Sabina Becker

Part II of a program I posted here yesterday.This episode takes us to the Atacama Desert of Chile, the driest place on Earth, and the nearby Valle del Huasco, a small strip of green farmland in an arid region. We … Continue reading →

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Police brutality against indigenous Mapuches in Chile

Posted on October 22, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Shocking video, showing the carabineros kicking a young indigenous man in the head. Story by Aporrea: Before the doors of the Commissary of Ercilla in Wallmapu, the press recorded a brutal beating by military police (carabineros) of a young Mapuche, … Continue reading →

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A giant joke on the whole notion of world peace

Posted on October 9, 2009 by Sabina Becker

“The Right to Live in Peace”, by Víctor Jara. He wrote this song in honor of Vietnam when the war there was still raging. For speaking out for the Vietnamese, and for his own Chilean and Latin American brethren, Jara … Continue reading →

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Tu querida presencia, Comandante…

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Sabina Becker

A documentary of the life of Che Guevara. On this, the anniversary of his assassination by the CIA’s thugs in Bolivia, it’s useful to know who he really was, and why the moneyed interests wanted him dead. Contrary to popular … Continue reading →