La belleza del desierto florido chileno en las paginas de The Observer de hoy. John Bartlett

Outside the presidential debate last night I bumped into a Lula supporter whose parents fled from Pinochet’s Chile to Brazil when he was a child. “I lived in a country devastated by dictatorship and I don’t want to see this again in a country as beautiful as this one,” he told me

El diario británico The Guardian destaca hoy el maravilloso fenómeno del desierto florido🌸
En la nota, la ministra Maisa se refirió al anuncio del Presidente Gabriel Boric Font de crear parque nacional para protegerlo: “Va en línea con el compromiso de ser un gobierno ecológico”

“All extreme biological systems are right on the edge of survival – that’s why it’s so important to protect them”

Chile has moved to create the Desierto Florido national park to protect a colourful floral bloom in the Atacama Desert theguardian.com/world/2022/oct…

Not all negotiations end well.

Research shows that new constitutions are accepted 94% of the time—but recently, Chile overwhelmingly rejected a new, progressive constitution. On The Negotiators, John Bartlett and 👻 Jenn Williams 🦇 examine what went wrong:  link.chtbl.com/dRQd2gz3

I reported for this episode of Foreign Policy's The Negotiators on Chile's constitutional process and the lessons learned (so far). Thanks to Jaime Bassa, Elisa Loncon Antileo and Marcela Cubillos Sigall for the conversations open.spotify.com/episode/7IHqV3…

“My Imaginary Country” depicts the police’s brutal response to the protests of 2019. Patricio Guzmán, the film-maker, interviews a photographer who all but lost her sight in one eye during the marches econ.st/3DxkKbp

I travelled to Minas Gerais to discover uai the (beautiful) bellwether state could have Brazil’s future in its hands 👇🏼 theguardian.com/world/2022/oct…

Last night in Copacabana 🇧🇷

Santiago, 25 de octubre de 2019.

Not all negotiations end well.

Research shows that new constitutions are accepted 94% of the time—but recently, Chile overwhelmingly rejected a new, progressive constitution. Today on The Negotiators, John Bartlett and 👻 Jenn Williams 🦇 examine what went wrong:  link.chtbl.com/dRQd2gz3

Just slipping into my tennis gear, see you down at the plaza ☂️

Today marks the anniversary of the 18 October 2019 protests which brought millions onto the streets in Chile. With the failure of the resulting constitutional process, very little has changed three years on

When a president claims to be 'at war with a dangerous and uncompromising enemy'—his own people—and an institution is violating the human rights of the people it is supposed to protect, shouldn't we be focusing on the ones who stayed silent?

“The prime minister is not under a desk,” explains Penny Mordaunt, edifyingly

The World Bank says that poverty in Chile could reach 10.5% this year cooperativa.cl/noticias/pais/…

'arqueología tuitera' es frase de la semana