Paola Romero rushes into a maze of brick dwellings with the faith of the new convert. Leaflets in hand, the energetic 50-year-old combs Nocedal at a run. To hear it, this disadvantaged neighborhood of Puente Alto, in the southern outskirts of Santiago de Chile, is a concentrate of the ills from which the country suffers.
“Those excluded from the alleged Chilean miracle are there. Young people fall under the control of drug traffickers, under the complicit gaze of corrupt carabinieri. People live in poverty and eat from the soup kitchen. Services are non
-
existent, she
lists.
We have to change the rules of the game in depth. ”
This lawyer by training is one of the 1,373 candidates running for the election of the Constituent Assembly, scheduled for Saturday and Sunday in the Andean country.
The ballot is historic.
For the first time in the history of Chile, 155 citizens will be democratically appointed to draft the new fundamental law.
The joint body - a first
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