by Eileen | Mar 10, 2019 | chile, march, photography, santiago, video
“Casi me emociono” said a woman standing next to me as I used the back of my hands to dry my own eyes. She “almost” got emotional. It was her way of saying it brought tears to her eyes, as it had mine. I was tempted to tell her “Y no soy...
by Eileen | Apr 12, 2013 | chile, march, photography, santiago, video
I’m tired of hearing about encapuchados, those malfeasor, hangers-on to the Chilean student protest movement. It’s not clever, it’s not interesting. Social discontent is important, and I’m not sure what these two years of protests will...
by Eileen | Oct 28, 2012 | chile, march, santiago
So this year, for the first year since the dictatorship two important things happened. One, is that compulsory voting was eradicated. It used to be that if you were registered to vote (which many people were not, and you’ll see why in a second), and you were...