Chileans have voted — deciding that 155 citizens will rewrite the country’s constitution, replacing the one drafted during the region of dictator Augusto Pinochet. The decision to write a new constitution followed fierce protests in 2019 over inequality and elitism. The World’s host Carol Hills speaks to Julieta Suarez-Cao, a political science professor at the Catholic University of Chile in Santiago.
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