Charis McGowan

As Chile’s pres­i­den­tial runoff nears, some women fear vic­to­ry for Jose An­to­nio Kast may roll back their rights.

Pro­gres­sive rep­re­sen­ta­tives elect­ed to draft a new Chilean con­sti­tu­tion say en­vi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion will be para­mount.

De­spite suc­cess­ful vac­ci­na­tion dri­ve, in­fec­tions are in­creas­ing across Chile, ex­ac­er­bat­ing deep-seat­ed in­equal­i­ties.

From bang­ing pots to vir­tu­al art, ac­tivists are or­gan­is­ing at home and on­line to con­tin­ue protests over in­equal­i­ty.

In Chile’s drought-rid­den Petor­ca, even the sim­ple di­rec­tive of wash­ing one’s hands is near­ly im­pos­si­ble.

Rober­to Cam­pos Weiss faces up to 10 years in jail un­der con­tro­ver­sial state se­cu­ri­ty law for hit­ting a sub­way turn­stile.

Against a back­drop of dai­ly protests, Chileans are or­gan­is­ing neigh­bour­hood gath­er­ings to dis­cuss a way for­ward.

At least 20 peo­ple have been killed in protests over in­equal­i­ty in the worst un­rest to hit the coun­try in decades.

Pro­test­ers de­scribe be­ing beat­en, shot at by po­lice in worst un­rest to hit Chile since dur­ing the Pinochet dic­ta­tor­ship.

Over the last decade, sev­er­al open­ly queer mu­si­cians have emerged in Latin Amer­i­ca. They use their mu­sic to com­bat hate.