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Newly elected Chilean Constitutional Assembly President Elisa Loncón / credit: Instagram/Elisa.Loncon

First Indigenous Woman to Preside Over Chilean Constitutional Assembly Rocks Political Establishment

Carole Concha Bell July 16, 2021 Carole Concha Bell

In a stunning election that was centuries in the making, a 58-year-old Mapuche academic named Elisa Loncón took the helm of a strategic political body in Chile.

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