| | Between 1975 and 2014, Chile followed the path of the [[free market]] and [[Capitalism]] been the best place to make business of [[Latin America]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iberglobal.com/files/2019-1/economic_freedom_index_2019.pdf|title=Economic Freedom Index 2019}}</ref> This has made the country the most developed of the Region according to the [[Human Development Index]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.economiaynegocios.cl/noticias/noticias.asp?id=505045|title=Chile sigue al tope de A. Latina en Índice de Desarrollo Humano|date=September 15, 2018|publisher=Economía y Negocios|language=es}}</ref> Chile went from a [[Gross domestic product]] of 100 in 1973 to 515 in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://gobierno.udd.cl/files/2016/05/PPT-FPP.pdf|author=Lucas Palacios Covarrubias|title=Pobreza vs Desigualdad|date=April 2016|publisher=[[Universidad del Desarrollo]] - Facultad de Gobierno|language=es}}</ref> However that was put at risk with the leftist insurrection from 2019 and, in [[Chile presidential election, 2021|Dec 2021]], [[Gabriel Boric]], was elected [[President of Chile|president]] at the age of 35. A former student radical "activist," a self-described [[communist]].<ref name=at22nov21>Monica Showalter, [https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/11/stunning_good_news_from_chile__and_not_just_for_them_but_for_us.html Stunning good news from Chile...], American Thinker, November 22, 2021</ref> | | Between 1975 and 2014, Chile followed the path of the [[free market]] and [[Capitalism]] been the best place to make business of [[Latin America]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iberglobal.com/files/2019-1/economic_freedom_index_2019.pdf|title=Economic Freedom Index 2019}}</ref> This has made the country the most developed of the Region according to the [[Human Development Index]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.economiaynegocios.cl/noticias/noticias.asp?id=505045|title=Chile sigue al tope de A. Latina en Índice de Desarrollo Humano|date=September 15, 2018|publisher=Economía y Negocios|language=es}}</ref> Chile went from a [[Gross domestic product]] of 100 in 1973 to 515 in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://gobierno.udd.cl/files/2016/05/PPT-FPP.pdf|author=Lucas Palacios Covarrubias|title=Pobreza vs Desigualdad|date=April 2016|publisher=[[Universidad del Desarrollo]] - Facultad de Gobierno|language=es}}</ref> However that was put at risk with the leftist insurrection from 2019 and, in [[Chile presidential election, 2021|Dec 2021]], [[Gabriel Boric]], was elected [[President of Chile|president]] at the age of 35. A former student radical "activist," a self-described [[communist]].<ref name=at22nov21>Monica Showalter, [https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/11/stunning_good_news_from_chile__and_not_just_for_them_but_for_us.html Stunning good news from Chile...], American Thinker, November 22, 2021</ref> |
| − | In early September 2022, by a resounding 62-38% landslide margin, Chileans rejected a progressive new constitution proposal and thereby decided to retain the one written under [[conservative]] leader [[Augusto Pinochet]] in 1980, which was reformed in democracy in more than half of its content.<ref>https://www.npr.org/2022/09/04/1121065756/chile-constitution-referendum</ref><ref>[https://www.uandes.cl/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CPR-Edicio%CC%81n-Histo%CC%81rica.pdf]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20220929111026/https://plataformacontexto.cl/contexto_factual/cuanto-queda-de-la-constitucion-de-pinochet/ Cuánto queda de “la Constitución de Pinochet”]</ref> A new proposal from the center-right with globalist elements was rejected on December 2023 with a 56-44% landslide margin. | + | In early September 2022, by a resounding 62-38% landslide margin, Chileans rejected a progressive new constitution proposal and thereby decided to retain [[Chilean Constitution of 1980|the one written under]] [[conservative]] leader [[Augusto Pinochet]] in 1980, which was reformed in democracy in more than half of its content.<ref>https://www.npr.org/2022/09/04/1121065756/chile-constitution-referendum</ref><ref>[https://www.uandes.cl/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CPR-Edicio%CC%81n-Histo%CC%81rica.pdf]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20220929111026/https://plataformacontexto.cl/contexto_factual/cuanto-queda-de-la-constitucion-de-pinochet/ Cuánto queda de “la Constitución de Pinochet”]</ref> A new proposal from the center-right with globalist elements was rejected on December 2023 with a 56-44% landslide margin. |