Chile democracy dignity - A Radical Recentering of Dignity
This article is also available in: Español (Spanish) In an interview during October of 2019, Chilean President Sebastián Piñera made a statement that would soon come back to haunt him. “Look at Latin America,” he said. “Argentina and Paraguay are in recession, Mexico and Brazil in stagnation, Peru and Ecuador in deep political crisis, and in this context, Chile looks like an oasis because we have [a] stable democracy.” A day later, Chile was in flames. What began as a group of students jumping turnstiles in response to a 30 peso increase in metro fares soon became a nationwide...