Beth Pearson

Beth Pearson is a PhD candidate in Politics at the University of Glasgow and a freelance journalist. She is interested in media, democracy and civil society in Latin America.

'Marca tu voto' for a constitutional assembly: Direct democracy in Chile’s 2013 presidential election

‘Marca tu Voto’ has been accused of being a leftist movement that wants to transform Chile into a Chavez-like political project. These claims are hotly contested, and 410,000 people marked the first ballot - the biggest instance of political activism since the student protests of 2011.

By Pablo Marshall and Beth Pearson

/ 4 Dec 2013