Chileans Reject Their New Draft Constitution

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On September 4, 2022, Chileans voted on whether to accept or reject the new constitution written by the Constituent Assembly elected to replace the constitution imposed on the country in 1980 by the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. As polls predicted, Chileans rejected the new charter by a huge margin, offering a serious defeat to Chile’s new left-leaning leader, President Gabriel Boric. Pundits throughout the region and across the ideological spectrum crowded in to explain what happened, and what it means for the future of Chile, and even Latin America as a whole.

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