Coming write-up: Chile votes to overhaul its constitution
Economist Podcasts26 Loka 2020

Coming write-up: Chile votes to overhaul its constitution

The country has roundly rejected its dictatorship-era charter and mapped out how to fashion a new one. What do Chileans stand to gain—and to lose? Rising populations of the elderly in the world’s prisons are creating deepening problems, both for jailers and the jailed. And we explore a theory that blames political chaos on too many would-be elites.

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