In Chile, Elisa Loncón, indigenous Mapuche academic and activist, is elected president of constitutional convention

Mapuche leader Elisa Loncón, a Ph.D. in humanities holder from the Dutch University of Leiden, has been chosen Sunday to preside over the Constituent Convention which will re-write Chile's new Fundamental Law to replace the current text from 1980 passed under the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. After being supported by leftwing delegates in the second round of voting, Loncón hailed the occasion as the start of “a new Chile, plural, multilingual, with women, with territories.”
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