Chile’s Ephemeral October Revolution
Five years on, the problems that fueled the 2019 social uprising have been overtaken by public safety concerns.
SANTIAGO — It is not an exaggeration to call the events of October 2019 in Chile a revolution, or at least an attempted one. The scale of the social and political changes demanded in large-scale protests against the status quo would have represented a transformation of the country on the level of the “social revolutions” that theorist Theda Skocpol discusses in a renowned 1979 book. And those changes might have materialized, had the first constitutional proposal been approved in September 2022. But that did not occur. The Chilean people twice rejected extreme constitutional...
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