NACLA Report on the Americas, Volume 54, Issue 4 (2022)

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Apruebo por Chile: Charting a Future in the Aftermath of Defeat

EDITOR’S NOTE

Editorial
After Apruebo’s Defeat
Romina Green Rioja & Joshua Frens-String
Pages: 361-364
Published online: 16 Nov 2022
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AROUND THE REGION

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IMF Holds Argentina Hostage Again
As more than a third of Argentines live in poverty, debt and austerity threaten to push politics toward further polarization.
Graciela Monteagudo
Pages: 365-368
Published online: 16 Nov 2022
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Panamá, Exhausted
In one of Latin America’s fastest growing economies of the last decade, inequality has reached a breaking point. Panamanians will no longer stand for corruption and misery.
Jorge Cuéllar
Pages: 369-375
Published online: 16 Nov 2022
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REPORT

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A Memory for the Future
In post-revolt Chile, experiences in the Constitutional Convention provide a foundation for reinvigorating the process of change, with social movements at the helm.
Pablo Abufom
Pages: 376-381
Published online: 16 Nov 2022
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Transforming Chile from the Ground Up
Two Constitutional Convention representatives reflect on the process of drafting the world’s most progressive constitution.
Romina Green Rioja, Elisa Loncon & Alondra Carrillo Vidal
Pages: 382-388
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Fighting for the Right to Decent Work
Chile’s draft constitution proposed measures to improve labor conditions, empower unions, and combat precarity. The struggle for dignified livelihoods is far from over.
Ángela Vergara
Pages: 389-394
Published online: 16 Nov 2022
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Navigating Apathy and Attacks in the Struggle for Migrant Rights in Chile
For one activist, Chile’s proposed constitution missed a historic opportunity to defend migrant rights amid a right-wing backlash that ultimately defeated the new progressive charter.
Pablo Seward Delaporte
Pages: 395-403
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Hopes for Afrodescendant Inclusion Betrayed
Despite years of activism and attaining legal recognition, Afro-Chileans remained sidelined in the drafting of a new plurinational constitution.
Juan Eduardo Wolf
Pages: 404-409
Published online: 16 Nov 2022
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Diversity and Dissidences on the Agenda
Although next steps remain uncertain, the drafting of the now-rejected constitution undeniably pushed forward debate on LGBtQi+ rights in Chile.
Carl Fischer
Pages: 410-414
Published online: 16 Nov 2022
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“We Didn’t See It Coming”
The rejection of the draft constitution reveals the powerful sway neoliberalism and nationalism continue to hold over Chilean politics and society.
Hillary Hiner
Pages: 415-423
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The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born
A longtime analyst of Chilean social movements reflects on the country’s multiple lefts and power relations within the ongoing “process of change.”
Marian Schlotterbeck & Mario Garcés Durán
Pages: 424-429
Published online: 16 Nov 2022
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Untangling Elite Opposition to Indigenous Rights
Throughout Chile’s constitutional process, right-wing rhetoric has rejected indigenous recognitions and representation in defense of the status quo.
Kelly Bauer
Pages: 430-437
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Colonial Recognition and Militarized Accumulation in Mapuche Territory
As capitalism and colonialism realign in Chile, Mapuche communities continue the struggle to reclaim their ancestral lands.
Héctor Nahuelpán, Álvaro Hofflinger, Edgars Martínez & Pablo Millalen
Pages: 438-444
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The Resource Curse Returns?
As lithium drives renewed promises of natural resource-based development, Chile confronts the power of private corporations eager to cash in on a global green transition.
Sebastián Carrasco & Aldo Madariaga
Pages: 445-452
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The Oligarchic Takeover of the Constituent Process
As Chile navigates its path to a new constitution, political elites seek to limit structural change. Can the revolutionary spirit that sparked the process return to the fore?
Camila Vergara
Pages: 453-457
Published online: 16 Nov 2022
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A New Road to Reform
Amid right-wing recalcitrance and popular resurgence against the neoliberal status quo, Chile’s new left faces many challenges. Still, social democratic progress remains within reach.
René Rojas
Pages: 458-466
Published online: 16 Nov 2022
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Diary of a Feminist Street Artist
Ahead of the September 4 plebiscite, the propaganda war over accepting or rejecting Chile’s draft constitution played out on the walls of Santiago.
Bree Johnson
Pages: 467-477
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ARTS AND REVIEWS

Review
Feminism in Chile’s Past and Future Constituent Process
Manuela Badilla
Pages: 478-480
Published online: 16 Nov 2022
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