Episode notes
In which Ben and Jacob welcome back Jose Muñoz to discuss the election of Gabriel Boric as the next president of Chile. Boric defeated the Pinochetista Jose Antonio Kast to become the youngest person to be elected president at the age of 35, and has declared that Chile will become the tomb of neoliberalism.
We read from Rene Rojas' article "Will Neoliberalism Finally End in Chile?" in Jacobin: https://jacobinmag.com/2021/06/rene-rojas-interview-democracy-new-constitution-constituent-assembly-plebiscite-left-chile
Keywords
democracysocialismleftpoliticsprotestsocialistelectionchilesouth america