Change from bryce to left. The former conservative president , sebastian pierre, has been replaced by a young Progressive Left his leader whos not from the party establishment. But from the Student Movement. He helped to lead to student protests that began in 2011 with thousands demanded educational reform. Ah 56 percent of chiles. Electric voted for breach and now theyre expecting him to deliver. Ah, we would have thought of it. The youngest president in chillies history has promised social justice, equality and action on the climate. His cabinet is made up of more women than men for the indigenous population, for each has promised a fair dialogue to resolve centuries old territorial conflicts. And the l g b t q i community is expecting him to put an end to the discrimination they face. Can the new president live up to peoples expectations . One long way, we need to redistribute the wealth that is produced by the men and women of children by all the people who live in our country with these. If the wealth is only restricted to a small number of people, its very difficult to have peace. Im with her. The gap between chiles rich and poor is one of the largest in the world. In his pointers is proud of her new home. Its the 1st time in her life that she has had a place, a parent, although its not legal, shes never had it easy in life. She comes from a poor farming family and had to work even as a child. I comalla matthew, be setting myself up in a small room and learning how to access water. And there are all things that i learned from my mother a she was a same stress. So she was always turning one thing into something else. Why . When i moved in here, i didnt have a single piece of furniture, for example, when the yet with and again of any other book on white. Ines only had a tent and a mattress when she decided to occupy this piece of land 2 years ago. One of our this is my Water Reserve in the tank. Its half empty. I still need to fill it. I built this wall with my own hands. Thats why like me, my house is small but nice. Rocky bed i go when the number of illegal settlements has doubled in chilly over the past 3 years, alongside the nurse, more than 2000 families now live here. The plot of land they occupied is 40 head, close in size and was once covered in debris. They cleared the land and began building houses, and so far, the private land owners have not sought legal action. If now the biggest illegal settlement in santiago de chilly, it was built in 2020 while in other parts of the capital paper were in lockdown at home. Its nearly 10 years since i last visited chile, south americas wealthiest country in terms of per capita income. But despite good economic growth, extreme poverty is still wide spread 30 years after the end of august, or pin a chaise, military dictatorship, actually has the lowest tax revenue of all o e c d countries. And the greatest inequality. The corona virus exacerbate of the problems. I arrived to find people queuing for their full shot of maxine, chilly, has one of the worlds highest vaccination writes for cove at 19 the previoUs Government took care of that. But economically it let many people in the lurch, Business Owners were given free reign to suspend employees and not pay wages. Gabe was joking. Most of the elderly are unable to live from their pensions, Pension Funds in chile, a managed by private sector companies, that invest the money according to gums and guidelines to help people manage. During the pandemic, workers were allowed to withdraw 10 percent of these pension savings. In his full enters was living with her daughter in a small municipal apartment. When she noticed people beginning to occupy the empty piece of land opposite, she immediately decided to join them. When the, when you, when you push it once i was able to withdraw 10 percent of my Retirement Savings vision, when i bought wooden boards for the walls job i saw and i was finally able to afford material for the roof and other things. Yeah. Company beach and when i bought everything 2nd hand, the hotel owner was he, luckless, if he dial out there, say one them a bit of anus gave the illegal settlement. The name on the weather amana said for a new dawn, its also does the 10 percent town, because most of the residents paid for their new homes by drawing out 10 percent of their pension. The withdrawals boosted inflation and further diminished workers may give pensions. But ines doesnt care figure la fleur a very good. In that sense the started, the pandemic was a stroke of luck i, we were able to occupy this area if you had it and then the option to withdraw 10 percent of our pension savings. Many, many families were able to build homes for themselves, lena, which i felt kinda fool. Many people lost their jobs because of the pandemic in here. On this land uniform, they were able to reduce their living costs, which is the pressure that the increased price of food and rental payments, coupled with high unemployment force, people to seek alternatives. You pull up on them a lot of because of the pandemic, we lost our jobs. So for 8 months we werent able to pay our rent. Okay. Have you come all . Yeah. So our landlady kicked us out over the summer. Thats when we occupied a piece of land here for c, l free. At 1st we just had a simple hut made of wooden planks. It was really cold for him, but then came the opportunity to withdraw 10 percent of our pension. My husband and son were then able to build this house, now were protected from the rain and the cold. You, me mila you viable . I have to admit, i didnt notice this poverty during my earlier trips to cheer. Yes, again, the one i think in the past, chile managed to keep the poverty hidden again. But now more people have started raising their voices. And not even this government will silence them again. Will they will demand what is due to them by extra him. Then again, i got a one me on International Labor day protest is marched peacefully, calling for workers to be given greater rights, our cameraman, pablo silas has filmed many such valleys. In 2019, he witnessed and filmed st. Thatll see as protest turn violent, that it is, there was a very, at the violence came from the government that was in power, then the establishment and the elite wanted to continue as though nothing was happening. They did everything they could to suppress the protests with the army and tanks, yearning had been in the 1st month alone, demonstrators were attacked with over 2000000 rubber bullets. The repression was terrible, but the uprising was unstoppable yet. I think, by now, oh wow. It began in october 2019, when High School Students protested against the increased Ticket Process on public transport. The demonstration soon spread with people from across chilion society venting the anger of economic and social injustice. The protest turned into riot. The conservative government called in the army more than 30 people, were killed and 100 sustained bullet wounds. I, you know, when a woman and a young 22 year old man went blind as a result, they lost their site forever than your damage is irreparable. He said, then you divide out of that, id say the repression under president vignette. I was as brutal as under the dictatorship. Them without my resume, it today and pablos alice knows what hes talking about. In the 1980s he filmed protests against the re, jean val castile pinochets, who came to power and a u. S. Backed military, too old resistance against pinochets me. A liberal policies was brutally put down. Ignoring the protests, the dictatorship introduced the constitution that shrunk the state to a minimum relinquishing many rights and responsibilities to private businesses. The education system, the health system, and the pension system, will all privatized more than 30 years later in 2019, the protest is called for that constitution to be abolished. They demanded a dignified standard of living for all and attacked symbols of a late rule patriarchy and colonialism. The focal point for the protests, a square, commonly known as plaza. Italia has been renamed dignity square by the protesters law for when it was that, unlike us adults, the young people dare to demand justice at regular money of the federal exit. He only then did we older people think if the Younger Generation can do this lot. So can we, when thought that they helped us to lose our fear, dunphy, i gail, i cant bear m better yet. And neither the Popular Uprising was inevitable, says political scientist, david outman. He told me it was only ever going to be a matter of time. A university professor, an expert in direct democracy, he took part in the protests himself young standing side by side with the students. A kind of wiggle, woke up no one called for these demonstrations to happen here. Thats why theyre referred to as a social explosions. She will in the loop was eating, there were various groups, various people taking to the streets for various reasons. I was the one common denominator. Was there longing for a more just and less cruel system of society . I mean them, horton, all men grill libya, died and there was a desire to put limits on the brutality of the unrestricted market economy. You will go, but if you had asked each demonstrator which political measures should be taken, youd have gotten a huge mishmash of ideas. But in the former congress building, the results of the uprising was soon evident. Work began on a new constitution. For me, it was a unique opportunity to see such a document in the making. I discovered very dedicated people immersed in their work. They were given one year to re shaped chiles foundations to negotiate the Legal Framework for social justice, equal opportunities, protection of minorities affair economy, the rule of law and democracy. This hugely Important Mission was not entrusted to lawmakers. Instead, an assembly of citizens directly elected by the people worked on the constitution without political intervention. Half the delegates were women. If passed, it will be the 1st gender parity constitution in Human History. Minorities that have traditionally suffered discrimination such as Indigenous Peoples were also part of the assembly. I spot elisa lawn con, the 1st president of the Constitutional Convention, elissa on cowen, elise is a linguist and she belongs to chill his largest indigenous group. The more picture. After centuries of discrimination, her election was a huge cause. The celebration amongst the indigenous population look at you. What we have witnessed is a deep crisis of Political Representation in the government and congress were no longer representing the interests of the people. And today we know that power must be shared, that women need to be in government, and that Indigenous People and the regions must also be involved in the democratic process. So they will that add people her people, the map who chair and demanding the return of their Ancestral Lands in the south of the country. President gabrielle bull reach has made efforts to resolve the conflict through dialogue. But so far without success. I said, are you, weve been fighting against the state for more than 200 years, but new generations come and we see peoples are able to liberate themselves. So Human History teaches us at repression, cant last forever. That gives us hope elected answer getting it was the new president wants to involve the Indigenous Peoples in the political process as equals his voice support for chile becoming a so called plural National State. Where different groups have certain rights. Yet again i think them are poacher, are like us people of the land. They are fighters and bold. They defend their views and traditions their laws and their rights. Thats why i can identify with them. And them i put a women are definitely fighters. Yeah. And well get him up. Would you from get ah, appearing National State would recognize the existence of different groups within its borders, affording them Political Rights and autonomy in certain territories. But the idea is facing a lot of resistance in the capital santiago. And not just among the elite or in conservative circles, ah, even form a president ricardo lagossi, the socialist party, is skeptical about its inclusion in the dropped constitution. But you did get a few years older than the call it a poor National State, if you must. But strictly speaking, to be true to history, that one should add before we were in origin of flora National State. But since then, theres been a lot of intermarriage and mixing. I mean, what they can, you know, have you ever seen a difference between she lands when the National Team qualifies for the world cup of the blue. Dallas, wheres the flora National State then a little bit. Do you see any group thats not on board gonna play with . No, but were all united behind our team and we fight together against our neighbors, the argentinians, but equally m. O, they were provoked with them. One would love to lift the lid, were convenient, all it do seek key officials. So what is this actually, are we a poor National State or a state that has found a Common National identity called the chalet, a nation emma . Let us really actually ah, when acquisitions and video local nasa, looking for them, its good to recognise and understand the differences between the chileans or rather, between the people who live in this republic, in this territory. Mulatto, bit of the nazi, but to applies different Legal Systems depending on a persons ethnic origins. Who now, what are the values . I dont know about that. No, sir. Ah, ive come to the coast. The strongest opposition to the new constitution is in conservative and far right circles chiles. Congress is in the port city of val powder e. So here are the arrange to meet with a senator whos known as the closest adviser to president vo reach his fall. Right rival, who he narrowly defeated in the last election. Jose Manuel Russell edwards is a Firm Believer in chiles, neo liberal system inherited from the dictatorship. He passionately upholds the ideal of a privatized world, in which the state has hardly anything to say. No thought that was needed. I would love sandra tassel in law. We are leading the movement to oppose the new constitution will soon embed in our eyes. The Constitutional Convention is not acting in the interests of the people youre looking at. Its proposals are strongly ideological and that will, thats why its lost credibility authority. And that its gone from an Approval Rating of 80 percent that are now just 30 or 35 percent laguna because the delegates have distanced themselves from the people at least fell today. And she lay all power as being transferred into the state lee, but these rights and freedoms dont belong to the state law. They belong to the people. I like the right to education well to health and to work in the ritual. Pow wow. If the lever slona the new left Us Government is facing an uphill battle, although it has a broad alliance, it doesnt have a majority in congress. Emilia schneider is a member of congress. Her party belongs to gabrielle breeches governing coalition broad front. She often criticizes senator rural high edwards and his right wing policies. Accusing him of hypocrisy. Griffin, im a woman who had firmly left wing that i dont believe we leftists are in the majority, but i do think peoples views the general are becoming more cosmopolitan. More progressive and less conservative, i think wont have and i question how sen raw has conservative outlook, which allows the state to interfere in our private lives and our sex lives that can be reconciled with the arguments of freedom that he so cries as the right wing actually wants to restrict everyones lives and freedom of the yet say that had said that a blue 26 year old Emilia Schneider is the 1st Transgender Lawmaker in chiles. History. President burridge believes and diversity, and thats reflected in his cabinet. 2 of his ministers, a homosexual, ah, if in im a transsexual woman, it were witnessing the dawn of a new era until now, chile was considered very conservative, but its becoming more open. Were just experiencing turbulence because of this change in moment of babylon. Books are now no justice, no peace. Schneider began her political career as a feminist spokesperson for the Student Movement, rejecting the old country uncle system has become one of the cornerstones of the new government. Who would get em. We come from the popular protest movement. We mustnt forget that, he mumbled moving forward slowly because we want to go far to what give im only one good boy g the current generation and power and she les believes it knows about everything from junky. Is sheila only slowly . Are they beginning to realize that being in power is different . Its not what they expected. Indeed, months after being sworn into office, the new left Us Government is now getting pushed back from all sides. I happened to interest straight. Thats cordoned off by the police. Its yet another protest by students over the conditions in their school. They plan to spend the night here. They say they will hold out until they complaints a hood. What is the 22nd of this month . We cant go that weve been pointing out the problems for a long time, for decades actually, under previoUs Governments to them can go to more the conditions are intolerable. And we have to keep making