Explainer: How Chile is rewriting its Pinochet-era constitution


  • World
  • Friday, 14 May 2021

People gather to protest against Chiles government and react to the results of a referendum on a new Chilean constitution in Santiago Chile October 25 2020. REUTERSIvan Alvarado

People gather to protest against Chile's government and react to the results of a referendum on a new Chilean constitution in Santiago, Chile, October 25, 2020. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile will pen a new constitution to replace its magna carta from the era of dictator Augusto Pinochet, which is credited with underpinning decades of growth, but also stoking inequality.

The Andean country, the world's top producer of copper, will vote this weekend for 155 delegates who will steer the historic redraft of the text that dates back to 1980.

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