Chile inspires us….
It surrounds us with its capacity for memory, with its historical upheavals, with its re-invented hope, with its joy in spite of everything. It inspires us with its young people, its “penguins”, its new avenues, its capacity for struggle, its colourful feminisms. And it challenges us, it forces us to reinterpret, to reinvent our dreams, however difficult they may be. With the healthy joy of the clean victory…
(*President Salvador Allende’s expression in his speech of 4 September 1970, taken up by the new President Gabriel Boric, in his first speech on 19 December 2021.)