then we go to chile, where voters have overwhelming approved rewriting chile's pinochet dictatorship-era constitution following a year of mass protests. >> this is the beginning and the end. we are giving birth to a new constitution and leaving behind the constitution of pinochet and his entourage. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. the united states recorded nearly 75,000 coronavirus cases on tuesday as the confirmed death toll from covid-19 neared 227,000. the u.s. has recorded over a half-million new coronavirus cases over just the last week. more than half of states are at or near record levels of infections and no state in the union is seeing a decline in new cases. despite the grim news, the trump administration declared victory over the coronavirus on tuesday. in a news release accompanying the release of a 62 page report, the white house office of science and technology policy cited "ending the covid-19 pandemic" as one of president trump's first term accomplishments. in wisconsin, health officia

replace guiding principles imposed 4 decades ago under the military dictatorship of general augusto pinochet than 1900 to 2 sure was based on the neo liberal beliefs of a group of chalange conservatives who studied under american economist milton friedman a way the dark lord of economics i heard the theme of his 80th birthday party was the banality of evil is most famous for the quote hey look if i just carry the one on this equation a 1000000 people die isn't that exciting what the guardian article though fails to mention probably intentionally is that the coup that put the military despot pinochet in power was manufactured facilitated by our very own cia to force out socialist salvador allende and although authorities claim a yand killed himself during the coup. i think he did it the same way jeffrey abstained with a little help from his friends. anyway this constitutional rewrite never would have happened without large scale protests by the chilean people last year the people took to the streets and demanded change and the result is the cia is watching all their hard work get wiped away s

pinochet, that experiment in the 1970 s. was continued by democratic governments from 990 to the present day. pinochet's rule was an economic failure posted to ship the economy has performed better than its neighbors, but it has failed to address inequality, access to pensions, health care and education were left to the free market. the people finally got to vote on the constitution, the outcome, a landslide, to scrap the charter in favor of more government intervention in the state. so what now? well, there's a long way to go before the people of chile see any change or joining me now via skype from london is latin america economist at capital economics. good to have you with us. so chill, there's been this 6 steps, success rather story for developing countries for so long. what's gone wrong? well, i think if you look at chile over the last few decades it's, it's been a regional performer in latin america in aggregate sounds. but i think one of the issues is that, and all of the citizens of enjoying those gains in the econo

though fails to mention probably intentionally is that the coup that put the military desk bought pinochet in power was manufactured and facilitated by our very own cia to force out socialist salvador allende and although authorities claim a yand killed himself during the coup. i think he did it the same way jeffrey abstained with a little help from his friends. anyway this constitutional rewrite never would have happened without large scale protests by the chilean people last year the people took to the streets and demanded change and the result is the cia is watching all their hard work get wiped away sorry cia sorry mike pompei o donald trump nancy pelosi etc the people of latin america are just about done with your show don't let the screen door hitch in the on the way out for washing d.c. the belly the beast is a redacted i. welcome lee can now take the news from behind the big news coming from nastily creator of the world's most slave chocolat and owner of most of the world's freshwater we're really sure how they ended up owning all our water i think humanity wasn't paying attention

human rights commissioner is no stranger to be a having be schiz from chile grew up in the pinochet era. asia knows exactly what were crimes. looks like. this is what looks like to us. so that this, there are also reports that ethiopian police gave the order of identifying ethnic to grants from all government agencies and n.g.o.s. does that mean that this is turning into an ethnic conflict? that hasn't been confirmed so far. we've heard rumors we're checking. i know reuters did report on it and the government is denying that that's what's happening . but we have to check, we have to make sure that that's exactly what's happening. but we also have to know this ethnic conflicts in ethiopia is nothing new. you know, minorities have been attacked in the last a year ago and even under sea international, this is a 2nd report that it released within the month of november saying that minorities are being attacked not just integrate, but in many, many regions all across the country. this looks like at ethnic warfare from, from what, from, from what i see and what i hear it within living in ethio

when pinochet lost an election, he left office. you know, when indira ghandi lost an election, she left office. this is pretty out of bounds, anywhere in the world. >> i'm reading something. you wrote, trump's actions today will have a large and lasting effect for decades, creating a cancer that will metastasize in grus grusesome ways. what does that look like? >> well, he's planted the seed in the republican party that there is a conspiracy around the election of 2020, that it was stolen. if you believe the polls, somewhere between 60% and 80% of republicans now believe this. which means they're going to be utterly uncompromising towards biden. the party will be in this vengeful -- imagine a version of mccarthyism, with the fervor around that times ten. and remember, donald trump is not going to just have ceded this conspiracy theory and go away. he will still be around. he's going to be the most powerful republican, in this party, it's now become a personality cult. and he'll feed this conspiracy theory, but it's good for donald

human rights commissioner is no stranger to theo, people having be schiz from chile, grew up in the pinochet era. and she knows exactly what we're crimes. looks like this is what looks like to us. so there are also reports that ethiopian police gave the order of identifying ethnic to grants from all government agencies and n.g.o.s . does that mean that this is turning into an ethnic conflict? that hasn't been confirmed so far? we've heard rumors, we're checking, i know reuters did report on it and the government is denying that that's what's happening. but we have to check, we have to make sure that that's exactly what's happening. but we also have to know this ethnic conflicts in ethiopia is nothing new. you know, minorities have been attacked in the last since a year ago. and even unless international, this is a 2nd report that it released within the month of november saying that minorities are being attacked not just integrate, but in many, many regions all across the country. this looks like at ethnic warfare from, from what, from, from what i see and what i hear it within living in ethi

the only night that i in my personal experience recall that feels like this one was the night that pinochet the country was going to return to democracy after 17 years of his autocratic rule and obviously donald trump is not him but the trump era was in such a departure from our traditions, democracy, our traditions of civility, our traditions of orderly transfer of power. our democratic traditions. that it feels like getting past that, getting rid of that is an enormous liberation and that's what it felt like today. i thought tonight in those speeches, there were two really stunning speeches. kamala harris spoke about ushering in a new day and she looked and sounded like a new day. she looked and sounded like the future, the first woman, woman of color to occupy the vice presidency. what an amazing thing and what a hopeful thing for the country. and joe biden i thought struck all the right notes in talking about how he intends to approach his presidency as the president for all americans. i think it's what a lot of people wanted to hear and you got the sense there will be a terrific team.

and the un human rights commissioner is no stranger to having be schiz from chile, grew up in the pinochet era a. she knows exactly what work looks like. this is what looks like to us so that there are also reports that ethiopian police gave the order of identifying ethnic to grants from all government agencies and n.g.o.s. does that mean that this is turning into an ethnic conflict? that hasn't been confirmed so far? we've heard rumors, we're checking, i know reuters did report on it and the government is denying that that's what's happening. but we have to check, we have to make sure that that's exactly what's happening. but we also have to know this ethnic conflicts in ethiopia is nothing new. you know, minorities have been attacked in the last since a year ago. and even under sea international, this is a 2nd report that it released within the month of november saying that minorities are being attacked not just integrate, but in many, many regions all across the country. this looks like at ethnic were fair from, from what, from, from what i see and what i hear it within living in ethiop

those on the right saw there was a democratic alternative to pinochet in chile. had an fact, they symbiotic relationship between the forces of the communist insurgency in the regimesm they needed each other -- and the regimes, they needed each other. as then opportunity, secretary talked about and president reagan talked about, there was a large section of society that wanted certain functioning democratic institutions and a political voice. was suddenly saw there was this alternative. on the left, we saw there was a challenge supported by the institutes of the authoritarian regimes on the right. it changed the entire debate in the congress. and so, as they go back to looking -- i reread this last night. it is as relevant today as it was back then. it led not only to the institution of democracy promotion in the u.s., but i think it led to the notion of democracy promotion by other intergovernmental organizations, networks of civil society organizations that had a profound effect on the sort of international democracy architecture that is still in existence today

emblematic national football stadium, which was used as a detention and torture center during the, the pinochet, dictators up. and there's, this is the place that hundreds of women have chosen to host a demonstration to demand the release of whom they call political prisoners. in chile, these are mostly young men, but also with young women who have been in prison. 7, sometimes in some cases from that here are charges of using violence 3 of these demonstrations. but these people say that they need an amnesty and they sat renee's to at once. right now they are shortly after they are going to satisfy. i don't like to say it was some dummies of the president of chile, the former head of the national guard who was fired actually just a few days ago because of his handling of the riot police. and one of the former interior minister also been dismissed. so it's a good thing, he didn't have evidence, that means you have more of our what this whole story is about that involving the so-called political prisoners of jello. this is 23 year old student your at a demonstration last year in santiago and prote