Chile shifts left to rewrite Pinochet-era constitution, as Goldman Sachs eyes its copper reserves

(español abajo) Ben Norton speaks with activist and politician Pablo Sepúlveda Allende, a grandson of Chile’s legendary socialist President Salvador Allende, about the historic May 15/16 elections in which left-wing and independent candidates won two-thirds of the seats for a convention to rewrite the constitution, which dates back to the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Sepúlveda Allende also discusses Chile’s enormous copper reserves, which are some of the largest in the world, and are now being targeted by US corporations, after Goldman Sachs dubbed copper “the new oil.“ // En esta entrevista, Benjamin Norton habla con el activista y político Pablo Sepúlveda Allende, nieto del legendario presidente socialista Salvador Allende, sobre las elecciones históricas del 15 y 16 de mayo en las que candidaturas de los partidos de izquierda e independientes se hicieron con dos tercios de los escaños para la convención que re-escribir