Chile’s Di Lampedusa Strategy: After Years of Debate, Has Anything Changed?
This is the dirty little secret of recent Chilean history: the agreement to change everything will end up changing nothing.
Robert Funk
December 15, 2023
Chile Shifts Rightward on the Eve of Another Constitutional Vote
With so many Chileans willing to limit rights to solve the country’s security problems, the main question for the future seems to be who will reap the benefits of the country’s malaise, Chile’s traditional right or a hard-right autocrat.
Cynthia Arnson
December 14, 2023
How Long Will Chile’s Dissatisfied Democrats Remain Democrats?
The faltering constitutional process indeed captures Chileans’ portrayal as ‘dissatisfied democrats’: they believe in democracy but dislike its results.
Jennifer Piscopo
December 13, 2023
Orwell’s Shadow? Chile’s Disinformation Commission Sparks Suspicion
Last September, Chileans voted overwhelmingly to reject a draft constitution that would have turbocharged President Gabriel Boric’s progressive agenda. Boric’s leftist allies blamed “fake news” for misleading the electorate. Ahead of another constitutional referendum this December, the government quietly published a decree to establish an Advisory Commission Against Disinformation. The initiative has sparked deep unease among free speech advocates and an outcry from Boric’s political opponents.
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June 30, 2023
Muerte Cruzada and Ecuadorian Democracy
Despite its novelty, the act did not plunge the country into crisis as some critics warned, nor did it mark a death knell for Ecuadorian democracy, as others argued. To the contrary, muerte cruzada acted as a constitutional release valve, helping dissipate popular discontent and providing a democratic exit for an unpopular president who was facing his second impeachment trial and third motion for impeachment in two years.
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June 7, 2023
Hemisphere Weekly: high hopes for a new Chilean constitution
After more than half of eligible voters showed for the national referendum, Chile is now on a two-year path toward a new constitution.
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November 4, 2020
The politics of Chile’s new constitution
Patricio Navia writes on the challenging path ahead to draft the new Constitution in Chile after the results of the referendum.
Patricio Navia
November 4, 2020
Chile’s populist moment?
“Chile’s compromise constitution may not satisfy anyone, but failure will satisfy no one.” While ignoring the reality of the government’s limitations would move the country further towards populism, ignoring the peoples’ demands could “reignite the streets.”
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October 29, 2020
Is a referendum necessary to investigate former Mexican presidents?
President AMLO’s proposal to investigate former Mexican presidents for possible past crimes has passed through the Supreme Court and will be scheduled for a vote in Congress amid concerns that the referendum may still be unconstitutional in the first place.
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October 23, 2020
Chile y la Constitución: modelo neoliberal “contra las cuerdas”
Muchas reformas se han hecho a la Constitución de Pinochet. Pero no acabaron con los problemas que detonaron las protestas. ¿Optará Chile por la redacción de una nueva Carta Fundamental?
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October 23, 2020