marta seems positive about this and says -- eric farnsworth in. marta seems positive about this. have citizens elected to change the constitution, there will be political influence that will have to be managed. we have seen this in other countries did what can the international community do to help chilean or is this an internal matter? eric: it depends on who is at the table to draft this constitution and to see what the delegates come up with paired that is a process that will begin sometime later next year. what can the international community do? not much, to be honest, nor should we. this is a chilean issue for chileans and certainly from the u.s. perspective, to the extent we can be supportive of the democratic process, i think that is appropriate. i think there is also a role for the international community to have a sensitivity to the moment of change in chile, but also of the economic model that chile has had, which has been proven to be a success and proven to be supported by particularly north americans but also investors and folks who are working to help the economy a

let's bring in our guests marta losses a political analyst and she joins us from santiago eric farnsworth is a vice president of the council of the americas and he joins us from washington d.c. boris vander spec is the editor in chief of the english language news site chalet today and he also joins us from chile's capital welcome all i'd like to begin with you. there's been a lot of talk about this being a complete fresh change for chile that this is dismantling the legacy of general augusto pinochet but what is the real driving force behind this was that is it the constitution was unfair or did people just want a change. well i think one must understand what the constitution meant for the century yes the constitution had is. very high majorities of 4 fifths 5 sevenths tooth. that were necessary to pass an enormous amount of subjects and noles in order to produce change so that we have had for example laws that have taken 3 parliaments 10 years to be passed in parliament. i think this this constitution has slowed the pace of the pace of change that it would have needed in order to become