Aldo: Was there a consensus or hegemony of sorts at work? I think this, thisis a question about interpretation. What happened? At some point, the political elits that let the transition, at some point they thought that they tey ty, they had the room to change things. A very strong discourse of legitimation of those years emerges, and we see it even to day. And i think there's growingt lidifies among the elite. Rihd, and so just to finish, theewal isdisdete,. This growing detachment from that legid discourse of legitimisation of ovino self, complacency with what was going on, with that of
Dan interviews scholars Aldo Madariaga and Camila Vergara about how Chilean politics have been playing out since the massive popular uprisings that began in October 2019.
Further reading:
jacobinlat.com/2021/06/19/el-neoliberalismo-atenta-contra-la-democracia-2
newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/burying-pinochet
jacobinmag.com/2021/06/rene-rojas-interview-democracy-new-constitution-constituent-assembly-plebiscite-left-chile
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