Voters should reject Chile’s new draft constitution
It is a fiscally irresponsible left-wing wish list
When angry and occasionally violent protesters took to the streets of Santiago, Chile’s capital, in 2019 and 2020, their grievances were manifold. Students marched against costly tuition; others demonstrated against the country’s private pension system and threadbare health care. Many blamed Chile’s ills on one document: the constitution adopted in 1980 under Augusto Pinochet, the dictator who ruled from 1973 to 1990.
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “Magna mistake”
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