Protestas y Disrupción Política y Social en Chile 2019: Crisis de Legitimidad del Modelo Neoliberal y Posible Salida Política por Acuerdo de Cambio Constitucional.

Protests and the Political and Social Disruption in Chile in 2019: The Crisis of Legitimacy of the Neoliberal Model and a Possible Political Resolution through the Agreement on Constutitonal Change.

The periods of global protest occurring in 2011 and 2019 could actually be the same cycle. In both cases, Chile has been the most disruptive case, despite being (at the same time) an emblematic country for social peace and institutional order throughout the post-dictatorship era, assuming that the Chilean political transition was hailed as an example. The incendiary October of protests in Chile gave rise to a crisis that was unprecedented in the almost thirty years since the end of the dictatorship, and which has led to a questioning which is not only discursive but also operational, with regard to the neoliberal model and the political model, both of which are anchored in the 1980 political Constitution, and which is currently undergoing a formal process for its exchange for a new one born from discussion in a Constitutional Convention chosen for the case. In our opinion, the most important thing lies in understanding the global scope of this particular crisis and noting the strange historical moment in which social unrest in the world seems to have no restraint. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]