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Coming write-up: Chile votes to overhaul its constitution

The Intelligence from The Economist

The Economist

Global News, Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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The country has roundly rejected its dictatorship-era charter and mapped out how to fashion a new one. What do Chileans stand to gain—and to lose? Rising populations of the elderly in the world’s prisons are creating deepening problems, both for jailers and the jailed. And we explore a theory that blames political chaos on too many would-be elites.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the EY Health Sciences and Wellness Experience Podcast series. A series dedicated

0:08.6

to exploring the trends that are reshaping the industry.

0:12.6

No one is completely blowing up their existing supply chain and rebalancing it. It's fairly

0:17.1

globally distributed on an end-to-end basis already and they're really assessing is there

0:21.3

a risk to the existing supply chain. Join us to examine and embrace the age of health

0:27.2

experience.

0:30.0

Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host Jason Palmer.

0:42.4

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. People

0:50.6

are living longer and longer and that has demographic effects in every corner of society.

0:57.2

We look into the many challenges that growing elderly populations present for the prison

1:01.7

system which was never designed to deal with them. And there's an intriguing theory that

1:07.7

may help explain rising political instability that seems to have taken hold all over. Maybe

1:13.8

these aren't battles that start from the bottom of unequal societies. Maybe it's too

1:18.3

much jostling at the top.

1:28.2

But first, the votes are in. Yesterday, Chileans decided by an overwhelming majority to scrap

1:39.8

and replace their dictatorship era constitution.

1:48.3

President Sebastian Piñera said it was the beginning of a new path for the country.

1:55.4

Chile's constitution was introduced under Augusto Pinochet, the dictator who ruled by terror

2:00.6

for nearly two decades. He lost power after a plebiscite in 1988. All of them united in

2:07.3

opposition to the regime of general Pinochet. It was the biggest political rally yet seen

2:13.1

in the capital. But the constitution remained. Later governments amended it dozens of times.

2:18.6

But for many Chileans, the constitution's most fundamental provisions were to blame for

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