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#NewWorldReport: Chile still disordered. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

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🗓️ 11 May 2023

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#NewWorldReport: Chile still disordered. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/chiles-constitution-will-struggle-escape-pinochets-shadow-2023-05-08/



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0:00.0

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0:25.0

This is the New World Report with Professor Abinallus of the OST Army War College.

0:29.0

And anywhere we look in the continent of South America, there's a fragile democracy or no democracy at all being used by cynical men.

0:40.0

However, there's no cynicism to my reading in San Diego. There's an honest search for a new constitution.

0:47.0

Gabriel Borch was elected. Is it very young and ambitious and ideological man?

0:53.0

Was elected on the basis of the push for a new constitution in 2019 before the pandemic.

1:00.0

Now this from San Diego, Chile's new constitution may end up looking a lot like the current text which dates back to Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.

1:10.0

But without his name on it, after the political right took charge of the redraft process and harsh nationwide electoral defeat for left of center president Gabriel Borch.

1:21.0

Professor, we have a couple of minutes and I know this will take a great deal of time, but it looks like the argument is just beginning.

1:27.0

Who's taking charge of the constitutional writing? I'm on prepare for this twist in the road.

1:32.0

Great question, John. And the broader context in Chile and in other places in Argentina, et cetera, is that the push looking to leftist populist solutions has led to its own brand of chaos, which little by little we're beginning to see in certain parts of the region.

1:49.0

Leading a push back to now looking to the right. And in Chile, what had happened is again, idealistic, Gabriel Borch came in.

1:58.0

One of there is a sense of dissatisfaction with the previous Chilean constitution, which came out of the era of dictatorship, the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

2:08.0

So, you know, if only we can have a new constitution, all things will be good in Chile. And so the discontent in Chile that really overwhelmed the country in October 2019 led to a constitutional referendum process and brought Borch into power.

2:23.0

The original group that was elected was a very left of center and came up with a constitution that went far beyond where most Chileans were comfortable with.

2:32.0

And so in the referendum to adopt the constitution, they actually rejected it, which meant that Chileans said, okay, we have to go back to the drawing board, elect basically a new oversight organization and essentially try this again.

2:46.0

So they just had elections for that new group of people who would oversee the constitutional experts who are drafting the constitution.

2:54.0

And in a notable surprise, instead of electing a group of very much non-traditional to the left, this would happen last time.

3:02.0

So this time of the 50 people voted to oversee, 34 of those people were actually of the two major right wing coalitions in Chile, including the Republican coalitions led by the prior contender, Jose Antonio Cascade.

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