Abstract:
This article presents a study of the Chilean Social Outbreak, a set of social mobilizations that erupted in various cities of that country since October 2019. With harsh criticism of the neoliberal economic model, these mobilizations have denounced the illegitimacy of the current constitution, which is the result of the civil-military dictatorship. One of the claims of greater consensus was the demand for a new constitution through a Constituent Assembly. Based on the epistemological framework of decolonial thought, our aim is to identify the general bearings of the Social Outbreak; review the Chilean historical panorama and its articulation between political authoritarianism and neoliberalism, as well as examine the 1980´s Constitution –the mainstays that anchored the Pinochet model– and the potential perspectives of a new Constitution within the framework of the new Latin-American Constitutionalism.
Keywords:
State; Authoritarianism; Social Outbreak; Chile; New Latin-American Constitutionalism