Our fifth Alborada Online event explored Chile’s coronavirus crisis and its effect on the country’s uprising against neoliberalism.
Event held on Sunday 14 June – for more info, click here.
Chile exceeded 105 thousand cases of COVID-19 and registered a new peak of deaths and daily infections on Monday 1 June. According to the Ministry of Health, 5,471 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours, the highest daily number, reaching a total of 105,159 cases. According to the Piñera government 59 people died in the 24 hours before Monday, this being a new peak of daily deaths, giving a total of 1,113 deaths from the disease. How does this scenario impact on the mass calls for reform to the neoliberal system that erupted in October 2019?
Speakers:
Héctor Ríos Jara is Phd research student in social science at University College London, University of London. He is a member of Social Theory and Latinamerican thought CLACSO and the Chilean London Assembly (Asamblea Chilena en Londres).
Dr Bárbara Fernández Melleda is a Chilean academic, currently working as Assistant Professor in Latin American Studies at The University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on a variety of topics that analyse Chilean literature, such as intersections between articulations of the female psyche, and the criticism of neoliberal principles within a post-dictatorship context.
> Alejandro Kirk is a journalist with HispanTV and teleSUR/teleSUR English
Chaired by Dr Rodrigo Acuña (Alborada contributing editor)
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