ABSTRACT
The idea was to prevent Chile from falling into the well-known ‘middle income trap’, as had occurred so many times before in other parts of the world. On October 18th 2019, Chile was plunged into its worst political, economic and institutional crisis since the fall of the Unidad Popular government in 1973. In effect, the recent protests in Colombia have been very similar to those occurring in Chile since October 2019. The case of Chile is, however, an exception in this scenario and this is perhaps why it is an interesting case study. The social uprising in Chile, for example, happened months before the pandemic. It is more likely that the modernisation the country has experienced – and the defects that have accompanied it – has changed Chilean society for good. The seminars on ‘the Chile that is coming’ were an effort to explain what was to come.
