Grace Livingstone

Conference on Development and Democracy in Latin America

Looking forward to speaking on Latin America, the USA and the world at this conference in Oxford this Thursday

www.lac.ox.ac.uk/event/confer...

For more on multinationals rush to make green fuels

& danger that Chile’s natural resources will be used for transition in Global North

Report by @gcabana.bsky.social

www.chilesustentable.net/wp-content/u...

‘It’s green colonialism, using Chilean natural resources for a so-called green transition in the global north.’

My report from Chile:

PREGUNTA: ¿Está usted de acuerdo con que se elimine la prohibición de establecer bases militares extranjeras o instalaciones extranjeras con propósitos militares, y de ceder bases militares nacionales a fuerzas armadas o de seguridad extranjeras, reformando parcialmente la Constitución de conformidad con el Anexo de la pregunta? REFERÉNDUM Y CONSULTA POPULAR Fecha Corte: domingo, 16 de noviembre de 2025 21:45:04 Votos SI: 3255228 (39.45 %) REFERÉNDUM - CASILLERO A Votos NO: 4996500 (60.55 %) 25 50 75 100 Pregunta Actas Validadas Actas Novedad Actas Pendientes Total Actas REFERÉNDUM - CASILLERO A 32558 6908 2593 42059

Ecuador voters just rejected allowing foreign military bases by a 20-point margin.

See Reuters: www.reuters.com/world/americ...

‘Will it change the weather? Will wildlife cope?’: Europe’s rush to build energy projects in Chile might not be as green as it seems The country’s government is upbeat about the economic prospects of the growing number of windfarms, solar parks and industrial complexes but others warn of ‘green colonialism’

'It's green colonialism'

Thousands of miles in Patagonia could be covered in wind farms & industrial infrastructure - as European and British firms invest in green fuel mega-projects

My report from Chile

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

@criordor.bsky.social @triofrancos.bsky.social

Far right candidate Jose Kast likely to win run-off in Chile's elections

it would be a govt 'further to the right than any other since the Pinochet dictatorship'

www.reuters.com/world/americ...

For more on multinationals rush to make green fuels

& danger that Chile’s natural resources will be used for transition in Global North

Report by @gcabana.bsky.social

www.chilesustentable.net/wp-content/u...

‘Will it change the weather? Will wildlife cope?’: Europe’s rush to build energy projects in Chile might not be as green as it seems The country’s government is upbeat about the economic prospects of the growing number of windfarms, solar parks and industrial complexes but others warn of ‘green colonialism’

@graceliv.bsky.social reporteó sobre la fiebre del hidrógeno en Chile. Me quedo con las palabras de cierre de la lideres changa Brenda Gutiérrez: “el mar es nuestra vida” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

'All these green fuels are for export; they won’t benefit us. It’s green colonialism, using Chilean natural resources for a so-called green transition in the global north.

Carmen Espoz Larrain, Chilean biologist

‘Will it change the weather? Will wildlife cope?’: Europe’s rush to build energy projects in Chile might not be as green as it seems The country’s government is upbeat about the economic prospects of the growing number of windfarms, solar parks and industrial complexes but others warn of ‘green colonialism’

'It's green colonialism'

Thousands of miles in Patagonia could be covered in wind farms & industrial infrastructure - as European and British firms invest in green fuel mega-projects

My report from Chile

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

@criordor.bsky.social @triofrancos.bsky.social

After elections in Chile on Sunday, and in Colombia early next year -
pronounced swing to the right likely in Latin America

Big question is what happens in Brazil's elections 2026 - but left has greater chance of winning there

Se amplía la brecha entre Jara (27% +1pto) y Kast (20%, -2pts), mientras que Kaiser (14%, +2pts), Matthei (13%, -1pto) y Parisi (11%) se disputan el tercer lugar - Sitio Web Cadem En base 100, si la elección fuera el próximo domingo, 30% (+1pto) votaría por Jara, 22% (-2pts) por Kast, 15% (+2pts) por Kaiser, 14% (-2pts) por Matthei, 12% por Parisi, 5% (+1pto) por Mayne-Nicholls...

Chile presidential elections on Sunday.

Left might be top in first round, but rightwinger Jose Kast likely to win the run-off, polls show

An unknown is how extra 5m people obligated to vote will swing - but likely to go towards the right

cadem.cl/estudios/se-...

www.bbc.com/mundo/articl...

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch heaps praise on extreme right president Javier Milei of Argentina in speech in London today

‘I think he’s fantastic… We should take a leaf out of his book’.

Informe de la DGA sugiere que relave de Anglo American contaminó el río Mapocho y sus afluentes

Chile's water regulator has found arsenic, copper & molybdenum in Santiago's main river

It says an Anglo American tailings dam is the only mining operation nearby

interferencia.cl/articulos/in...

Anglo is accused of many other pollution cases in Chile
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Maybe you could do a guided tour one day

Yes, it's such a pleasure to read. I'm going to visit the places in London you mention.
Also planning to go to BA soon, so will look at the cafes and buildings you highlight there too

Richard Gott was a groundbreaking, schmooz-proof journalist | Letters Letters: Grace Livingstone and Martin Hamilton reflect on the work and interests of the late writer and historian

Remembering Richard Gott

After Pinochet's coup, the UK Embassy pushed a pro-junta slant

One UK official hoped ‘The hours of Embassy briefings & the gin and tonics on the patio' would prevent anti-junta reporting

But Gott ignored it & exposed Pinochet's abuses

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

I’m loving this book by @shafikmeghji.bsky.social
On history of UK and South America
What’s so nice is he highlights all the places you can see in London, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Patagonia and elsewhere that show the forgotten history

This explains why British Library staff are on strike

The union says - managers take home up to £170k with £15k bonuses, while staff offered below-inflation pay rise

Meanwhile, frontline staff take abuse for the massive data breach - which managers failed to foresee

@pcsunion.bsky.social

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum pressing charges in groping incident Mexico’s first female president said she is pressing charges against her assailant, sending a message in a country where harassment of women is common.

Claudia Sheinbaum says she's pressing charges against the man who groped her this week outside Mexico's presidential palace.

“It is something that all women in our country experience,” she said. “If I do not report the crime ... what condition will all Mexican women be left in?”

wapo.st/4852563

Britain exports banned pesticide to Paraguay | Latin America Bureau Paraquat, manufactured by British company Syngenta, is banned in the UK and the EU. But it is widely used on Paraguay's booming soya farms, with often terrible effects on the crops and health of local...

I've written about the impacts of paraquat on small farmers in Latin America
lab.org.uk/britain-expo...

'the Junta, who, far from being ogres...are exerting themselves particularly to establish contacts with...those living in the peripheric areas in which Marxist terrorism previously held total sway. They have been warmly welcomed'

Of workers who had supported the elected Allende govt:

'Almost all Chilean workers have now reverted to normal, those who had been drawn into political activities feeling thoroughly ashamed of themselves - rather as the German people who joined the Nazi party felt after the fall of Hitler

'The Military are not hungry for power, and after putting the country back on its feet morally and financially, they will stand down. If political parties have been banned momentarily, it is for obvious reasons'

In 1973, the British-Chilean Chamber of Commerce circulated a booklet defending Pinochet's coup

it said 'there has been no evidence of torture or anything like it'

'Yes, the present government is authoritarian, but it is the essential antidote for the totalitarian Marxist period just ended'

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U.S. poised to strike military targets in Venezuela in escalation against Maduro regime The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald...

US military strikes on Venezuela could come in ‘days or even hours’

www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Journalists in Peru seek protection from justice system amid rising threats, harassment by officials - ICIJ A verbal threat by Lima’s mayor against veteran reporter and ICIJ member Gustavo Gorriti rocked the journalism community.

www.icij.org/news/2025/09...

Join PEN International, @sanmiguelpen.bsky.social, @englishpen.bsky.social and other PEN Centres with @amnesty.org and @article19.bsky.social. Together, we will gather in front of the Mexican Embassy in London to demand justice for murdered and disappeared journalists.

#NoOneIsGuaranteedSafety

Inspiring film about the women's movement in Argentina and the fight for abortion rights

Based on the book by @anaecorrea.bsky.social about a woman imprisoned after having a miscarriage

Belén is in UK cinemas now

Brilliant performances by Dolores Fonzi & Camila Plaate

Pennie Quinton & I are standing for a seat on NUJ national executive

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