Voters should reject Chile’s new draft constitution

and took to the streets of Santiago, Chile’s capital, in 2019 and 2020, their grievances were manifold. Students marched against costly tuition; others demonstrated against the country’s and threadbare health care. Many blamed Chile’s ills on one document: the constitution adopted in 1980 under Augusto Pinochet, the dictator who ruled from 1973 to 1990. To quell the protests, in which at least 30 people died, the centre-right government of the day agreed to have a . A constituent assembly of 155 people was elected, many of them from social movements rather than established parties. The of their haggling was released on July 4th. It is absurdly long, with 388 articles. It is also fiscally irresponsible and sometimes dotty.