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An existential choice awaits the Chilean people in a referendum on Sunday to approve (apruebo) a new constitution or reject it (rechazo), leaving in place a national charter fraudulently imposed on the country in 1980 by dictator Augusto Pinochet. Put in those stark terms and considering the origins of the referendum, its outcome would seem a More

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This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by Ariel Dorfman.

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