Lucia Newman

Sep 8, 2023 | msn.com | Lucia Newman

Santiago, Chile – Jeannette Avila takes out a white handkerchief atop Cerro Chena, a hill overlooking Chile’s capital, Santiago. Waving it up and down, she begins to dance to the music of Chile’s national dance. “La cueca” is normally performed with a partner, but Avila is dancing alone. The photographs of Chilean political prisoners who were forcibly disappeared decades ago and whose remains have never been found are laid out at her feet.

Sep 8, 2023 | aljazeera.com | Lucia Newman

Santiago, Chile – Jeannette Avila takes out a white handkerchief atop Cerro Chena, a hill overlooking Chile’s capital, Santiago. Waving it up and down, she begins to dance to the music of Chile’s national dance. “La cueca” is normally performed with a partner, but Avila is dancing alone. list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3list 2 of 3list 3 of 3end of listThe photographs of Chilean political prisoners who were forcibly disappeared decades ago and whose remains have never been found are laid out at her feet.

Sep 6, 2023 | msn.com | Lucia Newman

Santiago, Chile – Next week marks 50 years since the September 11, 1973 coup d’etat in Chile, led by General Augusto Pinochet in the middle of the Cold War. One might think that after half a century, there is little left to know about the circumstances surrounding the overthrow of the world’s first democratically elected, Marxist president, Salvador Allende. But as details continue to emerge about what happened, nothing could be further from the truth.

Jun 2, 2023 | aljazeera.com | Lucia Newman

REPORTER'S NOTEBOOKBrazilian President Lula da Silva’s push for more integration across the region will need to overcome major challenges. Video Duration 27 minutes 49 seconds 27:49Published On 3 Jun 20233 Jun 2023Unlike other parts of the world, Latin America is free of war. Yet it is a region plagued by inequality, crime, corruption, drug trafficking and social upheaval. Political stability and strong democratic institutions are more the exception than the rule.

May 25, 2023 | aljazeera.com | Lucia Newman

With the exception of a couple of nearby Chilean islands with just a handful of people, the southernmost populated town on our planet is Puerto Williams, Chile. It is located on the island of Navarino, a UNESCO biosphere reserve north of Cape Horn, where the Pacific and Atlantic oceans meet. The sub-Antarctic is a region just above Antarctica, found between 48°S and 58°S in the Indian and Pacific Oceans and between 42°S and 48°S in the Atlantic Ocean.