Chile Constitutional Process

The ultra-conservative Republican Party won a majority on Chile's new Constitutional Council, delivering a major blow to President Gabriel Boric's transformative platform.

Hollowed-out political parties and the legacy of dictatorship once again leave Chile's constitutional process hindered by a crisis of representation.

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.

Throughout Chile's constitutional process, right-wing rhetoric has rejected Indigenous recognitions and representation in defense of the status quo.

A longtime analyst of Chilean social movements reflects on the country's multiple lefts and power relations within the ongoing "process of change."

Two Constitutional Convention representatives reflect on the process of drafting the world's most progressive constitution.

In post-revolt Chile, experiences in the Constitutional Convention provide a foundation for reinvigorating the process of change, with social movements at the helm.

Read the editor's introduction to the Winter 2022 issue of the NACLA Report, "Apruebo por Chile: Charting a Future in the Aftermath of Defeat."

At the outset of the constitutional process, it seemed certain that Chile would approve its new constitution. The opposition turned the tide.

Disinformation campaigns and fears that Indigenous rights would erode national identity and unity were leading factors in the charter's defeat.

The majority of Chileans voted against the proposed new constitution. How can we interpret the "no" vote's significant victory?

Although an overwhelming majority of Chileans supported the need for a Constitutional Convention, the results of the September 4 vote on the new charter remain unpredictable.