Paul McDonnold: What Zimbabwe Can Learn From Chile - A Tale of Two Data Series

In 1988, when Robert Lawson was a first-year economics graduate student at Florida State University, he was surprised one day to look up and see Dr. James D. Gwartney standing in front of him. He had come down from a different floor of the Bellamy Building to find Lawson. That was unusual, because grad students were normally summoned by tenured professors, not sought out by them.

DTNZ: Chile makes Antarctica sovereignty claim

The Chilean president and defense chief visited a US base during a historic South Pole trip.

Chilean President Gabriel Boric has made history as the first Latin American leader to visit the South Pole, reaffirming Chile’s sovereignty claim over part of Antarctica.

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 12/11/24

The govt says sorry – and then a slew of legislative changes is introduced to Parliament to better protect people in state care

The Beehive has been abuzz with apologies and announcements related to the 200,000-plus people who are estimated to have been abused in state and faith-based care institutions over decades.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon delivered a speech in which he apologised to all New Zealanders who were abused and – along with Erica Stanford – he issued a press statement which reiterated the apology.

Chris Trotter: Imagining Away The Opposition.

How quickly things change. Three years ago Chile was racked by massive protest demonstrations. Hundreds of thousands of mostly young, mostly poor, Chileans served notice on their government that the moment had arrived for their country to execute a decisive break with its recent past. Politically, economically, and culturally, they said, Chile was ready to ditch the debilitating legacy of General Augusto Pinochet’s 17-year-long dictatorship. Most particularly, “Pinochet’s Straightjacket” – the 1980 constitution he imposed upon Chile as the price it must pay for even a limited restoration of democracy – must go.

James Taylor: Expensive Climate Policies Sparked Chile Riots

Climate activists and the United Nations are suffering a major black eye this week as protests and riots resulting from high energy prices have erupted in Santiago, Chile.

Chile, which will host a major U.N. climate conference in December, earned praise from climate activists for recently imposing a carbon dioxide tax on conventional energy sources and switching the Santiago Metro system to renewable power. Now, the people of Chile are rising up and firing a shot across the bow of other nations considering similar energy taxes and expensive renewable energy programs.