Chile Sours on Boric, Constitution as Poll Finds Economic Alarm (Buenos Aires Times)

Chileans’ support for both their new president and the institution rewriting the constitution is fading fast, according to a poll that also highlighted mounting pessimism over the economy.

Forty-six percent of citizens said they would reject the charter based on the information currently available, up ten percentage points from the prior week. By contrast, 40 percent said they would back the document, according to the survey by Cadem. READ MORE

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