A convention set up after the social explosion of 2019 to write a new constitution has declared water a public good and given more clout to environmental regulators. The Pinochet dictatorship of 1973-90 made water rights into private property and allowed uncontrolled pollution in “sacrifice areas”. Chile, which is highly dependent on natural resources, is suffering worsening droughts. Polls have long shown greater awareness of climate change in Latin America than elsewhere, perhaps because of the region’s vulnerability. But there is growing demand for other rights, ranging from the environment to the situation of women and people of indigenous or African descent.Įnvironmental consciousness is growing. It has since expanded to include socio-economic rights and a social safety-net. The cause of human rights was central to the establishment of democracy. “This isn’t about parties or ideologies, it’s about dignity.” The impact of the pandemic on school closures has made matters worse. “If young people don’t take the reins of this country, nobody will save us,” Álvaro Herrera, a music student from Colombia told El País, a Spanish newspaper, after he was beaten by police for taking part in a peaceful demonstration. The sense of unfairness lies at the root of many social explosions. Much of the expansion of higher education took place in poor-quality private institutions whose graduates may never recoup their investment through higher salaries. “The poor and lower-middle classes live in different neighbourhoods, attend different schools, visit different health clinics and make do with…pensions and health schemes that are less generous,” concluded researchers at the Inter-American Development Bank in 2020. Latin America has failed to redistribute enough or offer anything resembling equal opportunities. Yet this generation has grown up in a badly fractured society. Poverty fell from 45.3% in 2002 to 29.81% in 2018 and the lower-middle class grew. By 2013 that figure had leapt to 43%, according to the World Bank. In 2000 only 21% of 18- to 24-year-olds in the region were enrolled in higher education. They also have a greater sense of rights and freedoms, the result of urbanisation, more disposable income, the expansion of higher education and, more recently, exposure to the digital world. Marcela’s generation of Latin Americans are not only more diverse religiously, with the rise of evangelical Protestantism and secularism.
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Her grandparents’ generation grew up in a hierarchical and more deferential society, where public policies about family, gender and sex were ruled by a monolithic Roman Catholic morality. “Things are changing now, each generation thinks differently,” she said.
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She would prefer looking at Mexican urban architecture. Standing outside the basilica, Marcela, a young architect from Cusco in Peru, waited for her grandparents and father, who wanted to visit on the first day of their holiday.