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El Líbero
El Líbero is a Chilean online newspaper formed in 2014. Its founders include journalist and former editor of ''Investigation and Politics'' of '' El Mercurio'' Eduardo Sepúlveda, the commercial engineer Carlos Kubick O., José Antonio Guzmán A., former Chilean minister of sports Gabriel Ruiz-Tagle, and economist Hernán Büchi. ''El Líbero'' currently has 88 shareholders and is a member of the National Press Association (ANP), a conglomerate with 71 years of history that covers the main newspapers in the country. Eduardo Sepúlveda, director at ''El Líbero'', is the association's vice president. Despite its denounced bias—identified as neoconservative by scholar Luis Navarro—the newspaper has received awards for some of its content, such as the investigation by journalist Emily Avendaño into links between Brazilian conglomerate Odebrecht and Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, which was recognized by the Inter American Press Association in 2018. In October 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Online Newspaper
An online newspaper (or electronic news or electronic news publication) is the electronic publishing, online version of a newspaper, either as a stand-alone publication or as the online version of a printed periodical literature, periodical. Going online created more opportunities for newspapers, such as competing with broadcast journalism in presenting breaking news in a more timely manner. The credibility and strong brand recognition of well established newspapers, and the close relationships they have with advertisers, are also seen by many in the newspaper industry as strengthening their chances of survival. The movement away from the printing process can also help decrease costs. Online newspapers, like printed newspapers, have legal restrictions regarding libel, privacy, and copyright, also apply to online publications in most countries as in the UK. Also, the UK Data Protection Act 1998, Data Protection Act applies to online newspapers and news pages. Up to 2014, the Pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canal 13 (Chilean TV Channel)
Canal 13 is a Chilean free-to-air television network. Informally known in Chile as El 13 (The Thirteen), it is the second oldest television station in the country. Launched on August 21, 1959, on VHF channel 2 in Santiago, it was founded by a group of engineers from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. The station later moved its frequency to VHF channel 13, which gave rise to its current name. One of its most significant milestones was broadcasting the 1962 FIFA World Cup, hosted in Chile. It was originally named ''Corporación de Televisión de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile'' (Television Corporation of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile) until 2010, when the university sold most of its shares to Andrónico Luksic Craig's . In 2017, Grupo Luksic acquired full ownership of the channel. Its central studios are located in the Eleodoro Rodríguez Matte Television Centre, which has housed the channel's production and broadcast facilities since the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CNN Chile
Cable News Network Chile (known as CNN Chile and abbreviated as CNN CL) is a Chilean pay television news channel and news website launched on 4 December 2008. It was originally a joint venture between VTR Chile and WarnerMedia. The channel is based in Santiago, Chile. It is the local version of popular TV news channel CNN, which had previously shown interest in the Chilean market when it covered the 2005 presidential elections through CNN en Español. History The news channel is partnered with free-to-air network Chilevisión since 2010, when Turner Broadcasting System purchased it for US Dollar, $145 million to Sebastian Piñera's family. Since 2016, it is completely owned by Turner Broadcasting System Latin America as VTR sold its participation in the channel to them. Programming Notable current on-air staff * Mónica Rincón – weekdays on ''CNN Prime'', Fridays on ''Conciencia Inclusiva'' * Daniel Matamala – weekdays on ''CNN Prime'' * Sebastián Aguirre (broadcast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Desbordes
Mario Guillermo Desbordes Jiménez (born 15 October 1968) is a Chilean people, Chilean politician and former police officer of Carabineros de Chile who is the mayor-elect of the Santiago (commune), commune of Santiago. He also was Ministry of Defense of Chile, Minister of Defense (2020–2021). Desbordes previously served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile, Chamber of Deputies in Congress and was the president of National Renewal (Chile), National Renewal from 2018 to 2020. He also held the position of Secretary-General of his political party from 2010 to 2018 and was Undersecretary of Investigations during President of Chile, President Sebastián Piñera's first administration. In July 2021, Desbordes finished last in a four-way primary for the Chile Vamos coalition, ending his bid for the presidency. Then, in 2024, he was elected as mayor of Santiago Centro. Biography Born in 1968, Desbordes spent part of his childhood in Los Andes, Chile, Los Andes, his native t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristián Larroulet
Cristián Patricio Larroulet Vignau (born 1953 in Temuco) was the Minister General Secretariat of the Presidency of Chile under President Sebastián Piñera. He served as the Head of Advisors to the Presidency of the Republic in the second administration of Sebastián Piñera. Larroulet graduated from high school at Colegio Sagrados Corazones de Manquehue, and he obtained his Business Administration degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and a master's degree in economics from the University of Chicago, United States of America. He was present in the Acto de Chacarillas in 1977, a ritualized pro-Pinochet act reminiscent of Francoist Spain. Larroulet was a professor at the Universidad Católica, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, and at the School of Economics of the Universidad de Chile. He was a visiting researcher at the Institute of The Americas, the University of California, San Diego, United States of America. He was dean of the Economics and Business Faculty at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastián Piñera
Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique (; 1 December 1949 – 6 February 2024) was a Chilean businessman and politician who served as President of Chile from 2010 to 2014 and again from 2018 to 2022. The son of a Christian Democratic Party (Chile), Christian Democratic politician and diplomat, he studied business administration at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and economics at Harvard University. At the time of his death, he had an estimated net worth of US$2.7 billion, according to ''Forbes'', making him the third richest person in Chile. A member of the liberal-conservative National Renewal (Chile), National Renewal party, he served as a senator for the East Santiago district from 1990 to 1998, running for the presidency in the 2005–06 Chilean presidential election, 2005 election, which he lost to Michelle Bachelet, and again, successfully, 2009–10 Chilean presidential election, in 2010. As a result, he became Chile's first conservative president to be demo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reactionary
In politics, a reactionary is a person who favors a return to a previous state of society which they believe possessed positive characteristics absent from contemporary.''The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought'' Third Edition, (1999) p. 729. As a descriptor term, ''reactionary'' derives from the ideological context of the left–right political spectrum. As an adjective, the word ''reactionary'' describes points of view and policies meant to restore a ''wiktionary:status_quo_ante, status quo ante''. As an ideology, reactionism is a tradition in right-wing politics; the reactionary stance opposes policies for the social transformation of society, whereas conservatives seek to preserve the socio-economic structure and order that exists in the present. In popular usage, ''reactionary'' refers to a strong traditionalist conservative political perspective of a person opposed to social, political, and economic change. In the 20th century, reactionary politics was associated with r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Izquierda Diario
La Izquierda Diario is an online newspaper network that publishes news and opinion pieces. The newspaper was created by Socialist Workers' Party, a Trotskyist Trotskyism (, ) is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Russian revolutionary and intellectual Leon Trotsky along with some other members of the Left Opposition and the Fourth International. Trotsky described himself as an ... political party in Argentina. La Izquierda Diario has been credited for gaining a non-Trotskyist reader base among the left. By 2014 the Socialist Workers' Party declared to have an international network of Trotskyist rapporteurs in 15 countries. The network declares to publish 15 local editions written in one of seven languages; Spanish, French, English, German, Catalan, Italian and Portuguese. References {{SouthAm-newspaper-stub Spanish-language websites Argentine news websites Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Far-left Politics
Far-left politics, also known as extreme left politics or left-wing extremism, are politics further to the left on the left–right political spectrum than the standard political left. The term does not have a single, coherent definition; some scholars consider it to be the left of communist parties, while others broaden it to include the left of social democracy. In certain instances—especially in the news media—''far left'' has been associated with some forms of authoritarianism, anarchism, communism, and Marxism, or are characterized as groups that advocate for revolutionary socialism and related communist ideologies, or anti-capitalism and anti-globalization. Far-left terrorism consists of extremist, militant, or insurgent groups that attempt to realize their ideals through political violence rather than using democratic processes. Ideologies Far-left politics are the leftmost ideologies on the left of the left–right political spectrum. They are a hete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unión Demócrata Independiente
The Independent Democratic Union (''Unión Demócrata Independiente'', UDI) is a conservative and right-wing political party in Chile, founded in 1983. Its founder was the lawyer, politician, law professor and senator Jaime Guzmán, a civilian allied with Augusto Pinochet. Its ideological origins date back to Guzmán's Guildist Movement, born out of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in 1966, espousing the independence and depoliticization of intermediate bodies of civil society. The UDI is today a conservative political party with strong links to the Opus Dei, that opposes abortion in nearly all or all cases. UDI has for most of its history formed coalitions with National Renewal (RN) and other minor movements under different names such as; Participación y Progreso (1992), Unión por el Progreso de Chile (1993), Alliance for Chile (1999–2009, 2013), Coalition for Change (2009–2012) and Chile Vamos (2015–present). UDI was the largest political party in Congress ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Álvaro Elizalde
Álvaro Antonio Elizalde Soto (born 15 October 1969) is a Chilean politician and lawyer. He assumed the office of Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency on 19 April 2023. He was minister of Michelle Bachelet. On 11 March 2022 to 15 March 2023, he was elected President of the Senate in the LVI legislative period of the Chilean Congress. References External links Profile at BCN 1969 births Living people 20th-century Chilean lawyers Christian Left (Chile) politicians University of Chile alumni Socialist Party of Chile politicians People from Talca Chilean Ministers Secretary General of Government Senators of the LV Legislative Period of the National Congress of Chile Senators of the LVI Legislative Period of the National Congress of Chile Presidents of the Senate of Chile {{Chile-Senator-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centre-left Politics
Centre-left politics is the range of left-wing political ideologies that lean closer to the political centre. Ideologies commonly associated with it include social democracy, social liberalism, progressivism, and green politics. Ideas commonly supported by the centre-left include welfare capitalism, social justice, liberal internationalism, and multiculturalism. Economically, the centre-left supports a mixed economy in a democratic capitalist system, often including economic interventionism, progressive taxation, and the right to unionize. Centre-left politics are contrasted with far-left politics that reject capitalism or advocate revolution. The centre-left developed with the rest of the left–right political spectrum in 18th and 19th century France, where the centre-left included those who supported transfer of powers from the French monarchy, monarchy to parliament or endorsed Moderate Republicans (France, 1848–1870), moderate republicanism. Early progressivism and left ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
