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    Swings and extremes: Chile votes on new constitution – again

    by Naomi Larsson Piñeda Dec 15, 2023 4 minutes

    Chileans will head to the polls this weekend to vote for the fourth time in as many years on the future of their nation’s constitution. The referendum is testing a population increasingly exhausted by the democratic experiment – and its political swings.

    The Dec. 17 vote will be the final attempt, at least under the current administration, to rewrite Chile’s dictatorship-era constitution. The effort came about following widespread protests over inequality in 2019, and a vote last September failed, in part, because of the divide over a progressive document in a deeply conservative society. 

    The current iteration, however, could backtrack Chile on hard-fought human and social rights, critics say. Drafted by far-right and right-wing

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