UPDATED: Feb. 3, 2021 at 11:50 a.m.
The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard, in partnership with its regional office in Chile, launched an academic forum in December to examine the rewriting and potential adoption of a new constitution in Chile.
The forum follows a national referendum that occurred in Chile on Oct. 25, 2020, catalyzed by widespread protests. In the October vote, nearly 80 percent of voters supported writing a new constitution that would replace the one written by former dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1980.
Though preparatory efforts for the Rockefeller Centerâs âAcademic Forum for the New Constitution in Chileâ began in September 2019, it officially launched with a webinar on Dec. 2, 2020.