Chile Shelves Plans to Replace Constitution After Two Failed Votes, Nearly $200 Million Wasted
Chileans voted Sunday against replacing their nation’s constitution for a second time in as many years.
Chileans voted Sunday against replacing their nation’s constitution for a second time in as many years.
The cast and crew behind the film El Conde (“The Count”), debuting at the Venice International Film Festival this week, said depicting late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet as a vampire was “necessary” because the “extreme right” was gaining ground around the world.
Police responding to a shootout between drug-trafficking gangs in Valdivia, Chile, last week, identified one of the weapons confiscated on the scene as having been registered to late dictator Augusto Pinochet.
An overwhelming majority of Chileans voted Sunday to reject the proposed draft of a radical far-left constitution that would have replaced the nation’s 42-year-old constitution with the “world’s most progressive” core legal structure.
Violence, looting, and disorder erupted in Chile on Sunday evening after an overwhelming majority of people voted in favor of destroying the country’s constitution, replacing it with a new document more favorable to the nation’s left wing.