2023
December
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December 15, 2023
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Mark Sappenfield
Senior global correspondent

Chile looks a lot like the United States, politically – deeply polarized with wild swings between left and right. This weekend the country will vote on a new constitution for a second time. The first was too left. This one might be too right. 

The push for a new constitution came from protests demanding a more just society. But after decades of harsh dictatorship, the trust to drive political change comes slowly. There’s a saying: “La tercera la vencida” – roughly, we’ll agree the third time around. 

“As a nation, our values are more in the center,” says one expert in today’s Daily. This weekend we’ll see if finding that center requires the patience and cooperation of a third time around.


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Copies of the proposed draft of a new constitution sit outside a metro stop in Santiago, Chile, Dec. 14. Chileans have until Dec. 17 to study the articles and decide whether it will replace the current constitution.
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A woman bakes bread for customers in a wood-fire oven outside her home. Flour has become almost impossible to find and even harder to afford in Gaza.

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Craig Elmore gives a tour of his farmland in Imperial County, California, Feb. 20, 2023. The community volunteered deep cuts in water consumption under a new state plan to restore the Colorado River.

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People take pictures of the rooster that sat atop the spire of Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral, at the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine museum in Paris, Dec. 15, 2023. The rooster, a symbol of France, plunged to the ground in the April 2019 fire that felled the spire and consumed the roof. Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron visited Notre Dame and announced that the cathedral will reopen to worshippers and tourists Dec. 8, 2024. “It is a formidable image of hope and of a France that has rebuilt itself,” he said.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Karen Norris. )

A look ahead

Thank you for joining us today. Monday will bring the final installment of our Climate Generation series, with Sara Miller Llana visiting the Canadian Arctic. We’ll also have a photo gallery of the amazing trip she and photographer Melanie Stetson Freeman took to the village of Taloyoak. 

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