Worth Repeating: Can a Broken Democracy Fix Itself?

New Thinking for a New World · Feb 16, 2023 · 37m

Isabel Aninat is fundamentally optimistic that Chilean democracy is headed in a good direction. What do you think?

After the tragedy of the Pinochet years, Chile had evolved into one of the most successful countries in the Americas in economic terms, but perhaps more importantly, in terms of the health of its democracy. Right and left-wing parties and presidents alternated power, the judicial system worked, corruption was low, Chilean political leaders were respected at home and abroad. All of that came to a screeching halt in 2019 when protests escalated into widespread violence.

Chile was…