{"id":806161,"date":"2022-09-21T05:52:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T05:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=255641"},"modified":"2022-09-21T05:52:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T05:52:02","slug":"how-could-chile-reject-a-perfectly-progressive-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/09\/21\/how-could-chile-reject-a-perfectly-progressive-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"How could Chile reject a perfectly progressive constitution?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month, through a public vote, Chileans overwhelmingly rejected a new left-leaning constitution. Reuters described it as being one of the world&#8217;s most progressive charters. The vote to approve it wasn&#8217;t organized by some elite group managing a phony election under an authoritarian government. It was a fair election, with both the left- and right-wing  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/21\/how-could-chile-reject-a-perfectly-progressive-constitution\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/21\/how-could-chile-reject-a-perfectly-progressive-constitution\/\">How could Chile reject a perfectly progressive constitution?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/21\/how-could-chile-reject-a-perfectly-progressive-constitution\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month, through a public vote, Chileans overwhelmingly rejected a new left-leaning constitution. Reuters described it as being one of the world&#8217;s most progressive charters. The vote to approve it wasn&#8217;t organized by some elite group man&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":806162,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806161\/revisions\/806162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}