Chile's left turn w/ Camila Vergara

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🗓️ 11 February 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Camila Vergara joins PTO to talk about Chile's new left wing government and the new president elect, former student leader Gabriel Boric. We talked about what to expect from the new government in the context of a divided congress, how the protest movements that first emerged in 2011 has given rise to both the election of the new government and the constitutional convention - which has been tasked with re-rewriting the Pinochet era constitution. We also talked about the presidential campaign of Boric's opponent, the far-right José Antonio Kast - who, despite losing the election, has displaced the less extreme conservative currents in Chilean electoral politics.

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0:00.0	The first cut on this record has been cross-format focused for Airplay success.
0:05.0	The men beat on their drums. I'm going to be. I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to I'm the ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha so I'm so and so so you know I'm Hello and welcome to another episode of Politics Theory Other, a podcast from Tribune magazine.
0:49.7	Today's guest is Camila Vigaro.
0:51.7	We talked about Chile's new left-wing government and the new
0:54.6	president-elect, former student leader Gabriel Borage. We chatted about what to expect from the
1:00.3	new government in the context of a divided Congress, how the protest movements that first
1:05.3	emerged in 2011 have given rise to both the election of the new government and the constitutional
1:10.7	convention,
1:11.7	which has been tasked with rewriting the Pinnissue-era constitution. We also talked about
1:16.8	the presidential campaign of Boruch's opponent, the far-right Jose Antonio Cast, who despite losing
1:23.0	the election, has displaced some of the less extreme conservative currents in Chilean electoral
1:28.0	politics.
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