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(Bloomberg) Sebastian Pinera’s sudden death deprives Chile’s right wing of a unifying force, leaving those parties with a stark choice between pursuing the former president’s liberal, pragmatic view, or shifting to a new more conservative and populist agenda.Most Read from BloombergGermany’s Days as an Industrial Superpower Are Coming to an EndTop Nigerian Banker Killed in California Helicopter CrashWhite House Calls Trump’s Remarks About NATO Allies ‘Appalling’Trump Says War in Ukraine Must
A national referendum will be held on Dec. 17 to either approve or reject the document. This is Chile’s second attempt to put an end to the Constitution of 1980, which came into effect during Pinochet’s dictatorship
Santiago de Chile, Sep 15 (Prensa Latina) The council in charge of drawing up the project of Chile’s Constitution began a new stage amidst criticism regarding the direction the process has taken, and doubts that it can come to a successful conclusion.
The president of Chile issued a fervent defense of democracy on Monday. It was the 50th anniversary of the coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet, a coup that ushered in a brutal military dictatorship for almost two decades. The problems of democracy must be addressed through more democracy, President Gabriel Boric said. He spoke at the La Moneda presidential palace, which was bombed by warplanes at the start of the coup half a century ago. ‘A coup d’état or the violation of the human rights of those who think differently is never justifiable,’ Boric said in his address to the nation. But many people in Chile believe the 1973 coup was justified, according to numerous polls.