Excerpt - PTO Extra! Chileans reject the new constitution w/ Camila Vergara

Earlier this month, the people of Chile voted to reject the new
draft constitution that promised to be the most progressive
constitution of any country on the planet, and which was the fruit
of the popular uprisings in the country that in December also swept
the left wing approved dignity coalition into government. Earlier
this year I spoke with Camila Vergara, who argued that for all the
potential benefits of the new constitution, it also risked
canalising popular ferment in the country in ways that were more
acceptable to the chiles economic and political elite, and she also
expressed serious reservations about Gabriel Boric's new
government, which even before the electoral victory had tacked to
the centre in order to win business confidence and support within
Chile's divided congress. In today's conversation we talked about
why Chileans voted to reject the draft constitution, the failure of
the government to popularise understanding of what the new document
actually contained, and we also discussed the scale and
effectiveness of the right's campaign of misinformation.