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« It’s all on fire » : Looking back at Chile’s protest movement 3 years later
Chile’s recent student-led revolution is a beacon of hope in a continent shaken by political and economic turmoil. And Icaro Darío Núñez Ruiz has been a leading voice for that movement from the very start, since he was just 16 years old. A student and activist from Valparaiso who is now studying politics and governance at Sciences Po, Núñez provides first-hand insight from the protest’s frontlines. “It was my birthday. I was having tacos with my friends. And seeing everything getting burned,” Núñez recalled, thinking back on how the demonstrations began in 2019. “We said, ‘Okay we’ll eat – and…
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A voice of hope for Belarus : a conference with oppposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
“I want you to imagine the place where the best minds of my country are currently gathered: the politicians, the intellectuals, the human rights defenders, the journalists. It’s not a university like this. This place is prison.” Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Sciences Po, October 7, 2022 A mood of celebration rippled through the amphitheater Émile Boutmy at Sciences Po Friday afternoon. News had broken earlier in the morning that Ales Bialiatski, the jailed Belarusian human rights activist, was among those who had won the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize. The announcement seemed to brighten the spirits of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the leader of the democratic…
