Publisher's Synopsis
The book is a window into the events taking place in Chile from the so-called social outburst of October 2019 until the days before November 21, 2021, the date of Chile's most relevant presidential election, after recovering democracy in 1989.
Civil protests took place throughout Chile in October 2019 in response to a rise in the Santiago Metro's subway fare, the increased corruption, cost of living, indigenous people's rights privatization, the economic model, and inequality prevalent in the country. The protests that became violent appeared to be an organized movement, more consistent with a revolution, where the first battle was the rebellion. The protests subsided when agreements were reached to draft a new constitution and a peaceful solution was negotiated, but now the battle is on the institutions of the state. The left-wing group that controls the Constitution Convention wants to demolish the country and build it from scratch, ignoring the shared history and the fact that one of the few countries in Latin America where the level of poverty decreased from 60% to 10% in thirty years. The country's future governance is at stake in high polarization and political tensions.
