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A man cast his vote before the polls closed during the second day of the Constitutional Convention election to select assembly members that will draft a new constitution, in Santiago, Chile, Sunday, May 16, 2021
CHILEAN communists were among the big winners in elections to the country’s constitutional convention, taking 28 seats as the left scored a major victory in Sunday’s election.
Their success came as the centre-left Apruebo list won 24 of the 155 seats in the convention, with the right-wing Vamos por Chile list taking just 36 seats — less than a quarter of the total.
While it received the highest total number of votes (762,282), Vamos por Chile hoped to win at least a third of the seats in order to block significant changes to be included in the new constitution.
ENRIQUE SANTIAGO ROMERO says the Colombian far-right’s election victory is deeply suspect — and the United States has its fingerprints all over it
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
