Photo source: The Economist By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe Upfront To find a solution for discontent among the masses, Chile embarked on a risky and courageous path, to rewrite the constitution in order to face myriad challenges. Quite lately, they did in October 2020, but it sadly has been rejected by the masses. It is mainly because maximum of the Chilean voters identify themselves as centrist. Its failure was something extraordinary, as rarely in the modern world has the public rebuffed a constitution-replacement project. It was also a pointer to watchers that Chile, at this moment in time, rejects a plurinational state, as autonomy would have been provided to its indigenous groups. If the constitution would have been drafted, it would have resulted in one of the most progressive constitutions in the world. According to a Foreign Policy Oped by Catherine Osborne, it would have paved the way for stronger protections for indigenous Chileans, empowered labour unions, given enviro...

Photo source: Council on Foreign Relations By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe Upfront A   constitutional convention election happened in Chile in May 2021, after a 2020 national plebiscite was called, where majority of voters voted in favour of writing the new constitution. Most of the members in the convention were independent candidates, there was gender equality in membership, and seventeen seats were reserved for Chilean indigenous people, who were allocated proportionally, according to the number of people identified in the 2017 census: seven seats for Mapuche, two for Aymara, and one each for Diaguita, Quechua, Atacameno, Colla, Chango, Rapa Nui, Kawesgar and Yaghan peoples. Originally, an additional seat was set for the Afro-Chilean tribal group, but the proposal didn't meet the assemblage for approval in Congress. The reforms for the constitution might be the biggest political change in Chile in its history. The result of the constitutional convention election was a blow to th...

Source: Internet By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe Upfront C hile has been known in history as the world’s second-largest copper mine pit. There was a time when the copper minefields at Chuquicamata, El Salvador mine and El Teniente became to be known as “ Chile’s salary .” The area had self-sustained settlements, own rail networks, schools, stores, and even their own police forces. Che Guevara’s memoirs, The Motorcycle Diaries , present an anguish of sorts after visiting the place which he had read about only in books, where mining workers were ill-treated by their bosses. When he and his friend, Granada visit the mining country, they meet a homeless communist couple searching for work. “ By the light of the single candle … the contracted features of the worker gave off a mysterious and tragic air … the couple, frozen stiff in the desert night, hugging one another, was a live representation of the proletariat of any part of the world ,” Che wrote. These moments in Chile ...