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CARDENAS GRACIA, Jaime. The end of Pinochet´s authoritarian Constitution. Bol. Mex. Der. Comp. [online]. 2021, vol.54, n.162, e16981.  Epub 05-Jun-2021. ISSN 2448-4873.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iij.24484873e.2021.162.16981.

In this essay we give an account on the Chilean Constitutional Convention in progress that will put an end to the neoliberal and authoritarian Constitution of Pinochet. We maintain that the institutional design of 1980 and its reforms of 1989 and 2005 fostered social movements that led to the constituent process that South American country is experiencing because that legal structure formulated and materialized the foundations of neoliberalism and authoritarianism. We consider that when the Constitutions are conceived from parameters of social inequality and reduction of political pluralism, the drifts conclude not without difficulties in constituent process to transform the statu quo.

Palavras-chave : Chile; New Constitution; neoliberalism; authoritarianism.