This chapter analyzes Chilean President Gabriel Borage's role in addressing the 2019 social explosion through convening a constituent assembly for a new constitution. The chapter also examines the risks associated with not filling the representational void and compares Borage's actions to the horizontalist mass movement in Hong Kong.
Featuring Vincent Bevins on If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution. The second of a two-part interview on this important new book.
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