BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:October 2019 marked a turning point in Chilean history. What\ns tarted as yet another protest became the country’s biggest social uprising \nsince the end of the Pinochet dictatorship in 1990. Within a month\, Con gress\nhad no choice but to authorize the start of a process that would ev entually\nlead to a new constitution and to the election of the youngest p resident in the\ncountry's history.The protests came to encompass a\nstagg ering array of social demands\, ranging from pension\, healthcare and\nedu cation reform\, to political corruption\, privatization of natural resourc es\,\nwomen’s rights\, indigenous rights. Former President Piñera was wide ly\ncriticized for his handling of the crisis\, and his approval rating hi t an\nall-time low of 6%. Conversely\, polls showed that between 70 and 85 % of\nChileans supported the demands of the social movement. \;Maurici o Paredes has been director of the Syracuse University Santiago Center in Chile since 2008. Formerly a member of the sociology faculty at Universida d de Chile\, Dr. Paredes currently teaches two SU program courses: "Contem porary Issues in Chile and Latin America" and "Dictatorships\, Human Right s and Historical Memory in Chile and the Southern Cone." His interest in h istorical memory and Latin American \;dictatorships is closely related to his personal experience as a former political prisoner of the Pinochet regime. His current research on the history of human rights in the region includes archival evidence of Japanese internment camps in Chile during W WII\, and his research has been recently published in book format by Lom E diciones. DTEND:20220404T181500Z DTSTAMP:20260512T002640Z DTSTART:20220404T164500Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Uprising and Change in Chile: From Social Protest to Institutional Transformation UID:RFCALITEM639141280001883968 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

October 2019 marked a turning point in Chil ean history. What\nstarted as yet another protest became the country’s big gest social uprising\nsince the end of the Pinochet dictatorship in 1990. Within a month\, Congress\nhad no choice but to authorize the start of a p rocess that would eventually\nlead to a new constitution and to the electi on of the youngest president in the\ncountry's history.

The protests came to encompass a\nstaggering array of social demands\, ranging from pe nsion\, healthcare and\neducation reform\, to political corruption\, priva tization of natural resources\,\nwomen’s rights\, indigenous rights. Forme r President Piñera was widely\ncriticized for his handling of the crisis\, and his approval rating hit an\nall-time low of 6%. Conversely\, polls sh owed that between 70 and 85% of\nChileans supported the demands of the soc ial movement. \;

Mauricio Paredes has been dire ctor of the Syracuse University Santiago Center in Chile since 2008. Forme rly a member of the sociology faculty at Universidad de Chile\, Dr. Parede s currently teaches two SU program courses: "Contemporary Issues in Chile and Latin America" and "Dictatorships\, Human Rights and Historical Memory in Chile and the Southern Cone." His interest in historical memory and La tin American \;dictatorships is closely related to his personal experi ence as a former political prisoner of the Pinochet regime. His current re search on the history of human rights in the region includes archival evid ence of Japanese internment camps in Chile during WWII\, and his research has been recently published in book format by Lom Ediciones.

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