A New Chile - which could re-found Chile as a feminist, ecological, and plurinational Republic.

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Premiered Aug 18, 2022 After decades under dictator Pinochet's constitution, Chile has written a new founding document for a feminist, ecologist, plurinational Republic. Today, a global movement is born to defend Chile's right to re-foundation. Join us: Join us: https://bit.ly/3QAXyxW

Join us live on Sunday 4 September as we report on the historic constitutional plebiscite, which could re-found Chile as a feminist, ecological, and plurinational Republic.

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1. Let's hope the CIA and some corporation with a bug up its ass

don't give them another Pinochet, and you know at least one of those is skulking in his mansion, waiting for his chance.

I'm just glad this is happening when TFG is OUT and the rest of his rotten party are running scared.

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2. Bernie: I am proud to support this effort.

On Sunday the Chilean people can vote for a new constitution, replacing the old anti-democratic one written by the dictator Pinochet with a new one guaranteeing rights to health, housing, education, and a habitable planet. I am proud to support this effort.

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This Sunday, the people of Chile will decide: Approve a new constitution or default to the old written under dictator Augusto Pinochet by a group of economists known as the ‘Chicago Boys’. Who were they? Why did they matter? And how can we bury their bloody legacy?

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The ‘Chicago Boys’, a group of Chilean economists who had studied at the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman, wrote the El Ladrillo (or The Brick), during the campaign of Jorge Alessandri, the right-wing presidential candidate in the 1970 elections.

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This document, finished just weeks before the US-backed coup of 1973, defined the Chilean neoliberal model, inspiring Pinochet's Constitution of 1980, and charting a path of misery that would define Pinochet’s 17-year rule.

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The coup d'état of June 1973 removed socialist president Salvador Allende from power — and empowered the Chicago Boys. They promoted their neoliberal economic program vociferously, with newspapers running headlines like ‘Constitution will protect Chileans from Marxism.’


This program became a reality during the military junta’s 1980 plebiscite — and the devastation began. The constitution protected big business and attacked workers. Freedoms disappeared and social rights previously guaranteed by the state were left to the whim of the market.


42 years later, as Chile prepares for another constitutional plebiscite, faculty and alumni from the University of Chicago unite to bury the bloody legacy of the Chicago Boys, and celebrate the inauguration of a new era of “social, economic, and ecological justice” in Chile.

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7. Sept 4 at 3PM ET - LIVE FROM SANTIAGO

Join us live on Sunday 4 September as we report on the historic constitutional plebiscite, which could re-found Chile as a feminist, ecological, and plurinational Republic.