I see a strong scepticism of, you know, any kind of political power or machinery that will come and rule. So i think if near liberalism is going to be undone, it needs to be from the ground up. The crisis is so deep that, asalgo was saying, across the board, in a way, congress executed. There's no institution that has more than 20 % approval in chile to day. We still don't see the missing part of the iceberg: 50% who didn't even go to vote to say approve or reject. I have argued that this is a populous moment without a populise leader,. because ore the people themselves are fighting for changing the system
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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