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2/3rds of Chilean voters back rewriting their constitution

by Eva Vergara
| October 26, 2020 12:06 AM

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Amid a year of contagion and turmoil, Chileans turned out Sunday to vote overwhelmingly in favor of having a constitutional convention draft a new charter to replace guiding principles imposed four decades ago under the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.

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