chile

Yeah, attempts to nationalize the mining sector in Chile have not historically gone without complications...

But there are 499 articles in the draft, and even if the entire document is rejected (as looks likely) in the September plebiscite, we don't know to what extent its tenets (such as recognition of greater autonomy of indigenous nations) will be implemented via other means.

This story ain't over.

Yeah, things are built stone by stone. A lot of anarchists ofc are writing it off (see also Peru) because voting, but my distanced sense is that these things won't go away.

Few things messier in the world than trying to finalize a constitution (hell, it's a nightmare just trying to agree on a non-profit's Mission Statement).

It's definitely not as fun as crowding into the Plaza de Italia and singing your lungs out.

Ugh. ^ I’d like to take that last sentence back. Comes off totally disrespectful.

Cry more bitch!

It is a woke and fiscally irresponsible mess https://t.co/TlzZriYrqs

— The Economist (@TheEconomist) July 6, 2022

they really need to stop calling things woke

Does the Economist do this a lot? It's a bit of a surprise..

Is that a joke

Instructive to compare this to their enthusiastic support of the Pinochet coup.

https://www.economist.com/news/2008/07/03/the-end-of-allende

the editorial does not in fact deploy the word "woke" in the headline or in the text

I didn't want to register (Esp after that picture of a bog roll).

It's not only a much better constitution than the precedent one (imo), but would look to be pretty dope on its own regards (imo again).

I assume you were joking xyzzzz__ but I guess if anyone didn’t know

At various points in its storied history, @TheEconomist opposed famine relief to Ireland, expressed sympathy for the Confederate States of America, was lukewarm about universal suffrage, opposed Britain's entry into World War I, and cheered the coup against Allende in Chile.

— Dhruva Jaishankar (@d_jaishankar) April 1, 2020

Xpost

Wokeness is a clear subtext in the piece ("lol, talking about gender, being nice to animals and the right to housing??"). I guess it's the mullet approach to editorial: business at the front in print, party at the back on social media.

Or just saying the quiet bit out loud for the clicks.

Beautiful.

I don't know guys, I think the new Chilean constitution actually sounds pretty good! https://t.co/Wp8QMKTDpt pic.twitter.com/gofKzsCWGC

— Gary McQuiggin (@ggaaarrryyyy) July 7, 2022

Thinking it's too good to get passed.

I'm sure The Economist patted Sri Lanka on the back.

sri lanka has been under 16 IMF programs and none have worked

— jude 🌍 (@whoajude) July 7, 2022

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FXG6xgKVsAEKLKL?format=jpg&name=medium

sick burn

I guess it's the mullet approach to editorial: business at the front in print, party at the back on social media.

Finally done decent reporting on the constitution.

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/chile-constitution/

*some

🚨🇨🇱 Scores of UChicago professors and alumni have written to President @gabrielboric to slam the "shameful legacy" of the Chicago Boys that collaborated with Dictator Pinochet to write the 1980 constitution that has strangled Chile https://t.co/BaywoAfgEq

— David Adler (@davidrkadler) September 2, 2022

Don't forget: 80% of Chileans voted to bury Pinochet's constitution back in October 2020. The plebiscite today will come down to the wire, no doubt. But regardless of the outcome, there is no going back. Only steps forward on the path to a new Chilean republic.

— David Adler (@davidrkadler) September 4, 2022

not quite down to the wire

Yup, Adler is in "fight continues" mode. And the only reason we've had this vote is because of street protests.

The proposed new Chilean constitution began the year with majority support, which then crumbled as the disinformation specialists got to work and rumors spread that it would legalize abortion up to the moment of birth, allow people's homes to be confiscated, etc. pic.twitter.com/4eDDIHqUVg

— 🦀 Jon 🦀 Schwarz 🦀 (@schwarz) September 5, 2022

The Mapuches were colonized in the Occupation of the Araucanía (1883) and the Quechuas and Aymaras in the War of the Pacific (1884). Pinochet passed terror laws to steal Mapuche lands in the 1980s. The plurinational constitution would've returned Native self-determination. 2/

— New Amauta (@AmautaNew) September 5, 2022

Like so many Chileans, I'm painfully disappointed that the majority could reject principles of equality and respect outlined in #NuevaConstitucion - principles that came out of a direct cry from the estallido https://t.co/WDjz470DdW

— Naomi Larsson Piñeda (@naomilars) September 6, 2022

https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Constitutional-Council-in-Chile-Remains-in-the-Center-Right-20230508-0001.html