Macarena Soler speaking at Tompkins Conservation in Puerto Varas. Photo: Amigos de los Parques de Chile
By Caterinna del Rio Giovannini
After four weeks of widespread protests in Chile over income inequity, political exclusion and the high cost of health and education, on November 15 Chilean politicians representing almost all of the country’s political parties signed an agreement aimed at slowing the social unrest by holding a referendum in April 2020 on a new constitution. To replace the current version fashioned in 1980 by the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, Chileans will answer two questions: Do you want a new constitution? And what kind of body should be set up to write the new constitution?
