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Biography
Vanessa Olimpia Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen (born 25 October 1977) is a Chilean columnist and politician serving as a councilwoman of Las Condes. She is the host of the Esfera Pública YouTube Channel and a political commentator with strong republican, democratic and libertarian tendencies.
Biography
She has a Master of Arts in philosophy and a PhD in political sciences.
She is the CEO of the Libertarian Centre of Studies of Chile (Spanish: Centro de Estudios Libertarios CEL), and a columnist of El Líbero and El Mostrador. Her brothers are Axel Kaiser, a Chilean lawyer and author, and of Johannes Kaiser, a congressman and YouTuber. Kaiser has given at the Fundación para el Progreso (FPP), where she has denounced liberalism as the "true bailout [of society]".
She holds the Hannah Arendt chair of the Autonomous University of Chile.
She was elected as councilman of Las Condes in 2021.
On 18 October 2021, she was mentioned by Radio Bío-Bío as a possible minister of an eventual government of José Antonio Kast. She signed the Madrid Charter, a document drafted by the far-right Spanish party Vox that describes left-wing groups as enemies of Ibero-America involved in a "criminal project" that are "under the umbrella of the Cuban regime".
Works
Books
- «En vez de una sola mirada». Santiago, RIL Editorial, 2011.
- «Que no te rompan el corazón». Santiago, 2018.
Articles
- «Populismo en América Latina. Una revisión de la literatura y la agenda». Austral University Social Sciences Magazine. N°17. 2017.
- «La pluralidad humana en tanto conditio per quan de la vida política». Academy of Christian Humanism University Scholar Magazine. N°20. Vol. 85. 2015.
- «George Kateb, Dignidad Humana». Vol. 32. N°1. Harvard University Press, 2011.
- «El Neomercantilismo como modelo de mercado en Latinoamérica». Pléyade Magazine (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile). N°5. 2010.