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April 2010
Video: Communist Party Convention Kick-off, with Sam Webb
See the official convention documents here:Main Convention Discussion Document: U.S. Politics at a Transition PointInternational Issues and US Foreign PolicyThe Party Program in a Period of TransitionNew Opportunities to Grow the Communist Party
Chileans Seek Change: Interview with the Pres. of the Communist Party of Chile, Guillermo Teillier
Editor's note: On December 13, Chile held elections, with four candidates for President: billionaire center-right candidate Sebastian Pinera, (44 percent), Eduardo Frei (30 percent), from the center-left Concertacion, which has governed in Chile since the end of Pinochet’s dictatorship, Marco Enriquez Ominami, (19 percent), an independent who has attracted a large vote due to his criticism from the left of the failures of the Concertacion, and Jorge Arrate (six percent), the candidate of “Juntos Podemos,” a coalition that included the Communist Party.Since no candidate received more than 50 percent of the vote, there will be a runoff election on January 17.As notable was the historic election of three Communists to the Congress, for the first time since 1973.
