Chile's left turn w/ Camila Vergara

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Camila Vergara joins PTO to talk about Chile's new left wing government and the new president elect, former student leader Gabriel Boric. We talked about what to expect from the new government in the context of a divided congress, how the protest movements that first emerged in 2011 has given rise to both the election of the new government and the constitutional convention - which has been tasked with re-rewriting the Pinochet era constitution. We also talked about the presidential campaign of Boric's opponent, the far-right José Antonio Kast - who, despite losing the election, has displaced the less extreme conservative currents in Chilean electoral politics.