Chile's lessons and failures in writing a new constitution
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In 2020, Chileans overwhelmingly supported writing a new constitution. Two years later, Chileans overwhelmingly rejected it. This month, they will vote on a different version, but many say it’s worse than what they already have.
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| 0:32.0 | In October of 2019, mass protests erupted in Chile. Hundreds of thousands of chilaeans toeos |
| 0:52.0 | hundreds of thousands of chilaeans took to the streets nationwide. The protests paralyzed the country for months, shutting down the subway, |
| 0:56.7 | closing stores, leading to property damage, and the enforcement of military curfews. |
| 1:08.1 | What caused this massive uprising? A coup or a war or something terribly violent like that? Well nothing like that in fact, |
| 1:12.6 | Chileans staged a national uprising because of a hike in subway fares. |
| 1:18.6 | The metro system in Santiago, Chile's capital city, increased fares by 4%. |
| 1:25.0 | 30 Chile and pesos, to be exact. |
| 1:27.5 | In 2019 US dollars, that's about four pennies. |
| 1:32.1 | Now, while that might not seem like much for many |
| 1:34.8 | Chileans it crossed a line. On-point producer Paige Sutherland was |
| 1:38.7 | reporting from Chile at the time and she spoke with protesters like then 25 year old |
| 1:43.4 | Javier Aguilo. |
| 1:45.1 | The great problem here is the inequality. |
| 1:48.6 | There's two chiles here. |
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