How do today's movements compare to the popular movements that brought savador aende to power in 19 70? There is a very different scenario between the seventies and now. The political parties that were supposed to be left, they were linea liberal, you know, so where they're not really lest ther were just socialists in name. And people kept voting for them in diminishing numbers.
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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