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Will the Experts Fail as the Independents did in Chile?

The role of political parties, civil society organizations and the media should be to strongly contribute to citizen education.

A new Constitution needs to represent the vast majority of Chile, so they vote in a referendum with an overwhelming majority.

Wanting to carry out the process for drafting a new constitution without basic democratic standards, is extreme stubbornness.

Day by day we see news bulletins about women accused of drug-related crimes. Underneath these crimes is a problematic of large proportions…

People who defend the existing model are screaming bloody murder saying cutting its budget will mean dropping the level of education.

The right thing would be to condemn every form of violence, both from the State when this is the case, as well as from society as a whole.

Initiating a new process seems blocked by the right’s complete denial of what occurred in Chile in October 2019.

This is especially so for those who believe in the urgent need of a change of direction in the way we’ve traditionally understood sociology.

Petro intelligently used the expression war against the Amazon jungle to illustrate the damage that ecocide policies have left the region…

The underlying problem is that the Chilean identity was historically constructed on the idea of a neutral mestizaje…