#Chile: Two steps forward, two steps back. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ
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🗓️ 22 December 2023
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#Chile: Two steps forward, two steps back. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-chile-escape-stagnation-new-constitution-economic-deregulation-freedom-6c165b0c
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| 0:38.0 | Chilly. My memory is in the fall of 2019 there was tumult in Santiago and perhaps other Chilean cities |
| 0:48.4 | protests against the Constitution against the status quo against the status quo, against the elite, leading to violence, fires, |
| 0:56.4 | explosions. |
| 0:57.4 | Mary Anastasio Grady joins me. |
| 1:00.2 | Mary wrote about that and that was when I was introduced to the Chilean economy. |
| 1:04.1 | What is this? |
| 1:05.1 | A natural resource-rich country in South America and it looks like a revolution. |
| 1:10.7 | All these years later, Mary, a very good evening to you. That was then, but as I recall |
| 1:16.4 | the elements that spoke after that violence said we need a new constitution, we need a new order of battle, we need a new constitution we need a new order of battle we need a new leader well all of |
| 1:25.7 | that in between part was the pandemic and then the election of Gabriel Borich |
| 1:31.3 | the very young classical Marxist, and then one or two constitutional |
| 1:37.4 | drafts now to replace the original draft of 2019. |
| 1:42.1 | And we're back to the beginning. What's happened Mary? Good evening to you. Oh goodness good evening John that's a lot |
| 1:49.7 | Okay, yes starting in October 2019, |
| 1:52.7 | there was kind of a social explosion. |
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