Blogs
Medics now wear capes
Marcelo Montecinos THE death of the first Chilean doctor, José René Sánchez, due to Covid-19 yesterday was a sad reminder of what medics have to go through on a daily work basis nowadays. That same […]
Opinion
Blogs
The New Degrees of Separation
Marcelo Montecinos/The Santiago Times Staff Covid-19 has separated the world, friends and family members, and now communities in its spread. The separation process has almost reached hysterical levels. “We have to maintain the Chinese Wall […]
Blogs
The Current Chilean AFP Pension System Could Be On Its Way Out
Marcelo Montecinos A new law project has been introduced into the Chilean Parliament that could change how the actual AFP pension system is run, and by whom. Senator Alejandro Navarro and the NO+AFP Movimiento introduced […]
Opinion
Paraguay May Trigger Diplomatic Avalanche for Taiwan
The Senate of Paraguay voted to maintain diplomatic recognition of Taiwan. But long-term prospects do not look bright. Antonio C. Hsiang Paraguay was one of the first countries to receive a donation of 100,000 face […]
COVID-19
COVID-19 Coronavirus: Unity for Survival
Arlene J. Schar and Dr. David Leffler As the COVID-19 virus pandemic impacts peoples’ lives worldwide, society shuts down in an effort to contain it. People find themselves isolated at home, seemingly powerless. Unity is […]
Letters to the Editor
Chile’s Constitutional Court “on the verge of corruption”
Gonzalo Díaz Ponce “Before I arrived, there were suspended causes in the TC (Constitutional Court) for a long time, on the verge of corruption’’ these were Maria Luisa Brahm’s words, the President of the Constitutional […]
Brazil
Why The Amazon Is Not Our Lungs, And What Conceding Otherwise Reveals About Humanity
PITAMBER KAUSHIK Unless you have been living under a rock, you would have definitely come across one of the stock headlines or earnest tweets about “The Earth’s lungs burning”, or some convenient alternative paraphrasing of […]
Opinion
“He Seems More Amenable Toward Dictators than Democrats”
“He was all too often more amenable to dictators than democrats.” One would hardly be remiss in thinking this passage referred to Donald Trump, particularly given the way he conducts himself, for example picking fights […]
Human Rights & Law News
Jammu & Kashmir: Universal Human Rights Day
SYED SHARIF HUSSAIN BOKHARI The United Nations Charter declared: “We the peoples of the United Nations determined to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the […]
Opinion
Trump’s Immigration Policy and Why Americans Distrust Government
“I was the only Republican who had run a presidential campaign and not gone to jail.” Surprisingly enough, for the time being, those words were not uttered by Corey Lewandowski or Paul Manafort, but rather […]