Jacobin Radio: 50 Years of Chilean Politics w/ Marc Cooper
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What's the Difference Between Right Voting and the Indigenous?
For the assembly, it was somewhat of a self-selecting audience. You had some conservatives voting and some conservatives got votes to be in the assembly as did some people from the old center left. But the overwhelming majority were independents and they were young people who had nothing to do with the political system which means they didn't have much experience. They made it eager. So their volunteerism, if you will, their enthusiasm, the ability for the first time to talk about gender and the environment and the indigenous in a constitutional setting. This is the first time in Chiliate history.
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