Amid a year of contagion and turmoil, Chileans turned out Sunday (Monday NZT) to vote overwhelmingly in favor of having a constitutional convention draft a new charter to replace guiding principles imposed four decades ago under the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.
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The country’s conservative government had agreed with the center-left opposition to allowing the plebiscite after the outbreak of vast street protests that erupted a year ago in frustration over inequality in pensions, education, and health care in what has long been one of South America’s most developed nations.