Abstract
Neil Vallelly interviews Chilean critical legal theorist and author of 'Systemic Corruption' (2019), Camila Vergara, about the origins of Chile's most recent political crisis, beginning with the violent overthrow of Salvador Allende’s Socialist Government in 1973 and the brutality and neoliberal economic reforms of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship that followed. The discussion outlines her work with cabildos (local councils) pushing for the inclusion of a variety of social and economic rights in the new constitution, how wealthy and powerful right-wing elites used the prospect of Indigenous rights to undermine constitutional reform, and the consequences of the defeat of the proposed constitution in the 2022 referendum.