# Camila Vergara

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The Chilean coup and Zanzibar’s most famous singer

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. We hear from Chilean politician Hermógenes Pérez de Arce, who helped oust President Allende in 1973. We also hear from the widow of folk singer Victor Jara, who was killed during the military coup…

The Polarizing Struggle for a New Constitution: Chile's Upcoming Referendum

Veronica Undurraga was the President of the Expert Commission created in December 2022 to draft a new constitution for Chile.  She is a professor of Law at Universidad Adolfo Ibañez and author of many scholarly articles on Chile's constitutional process, including Engendering a constitutional momen…

Camila Vergara's Vision of Plebeian Constitutionalism

Chilean political philosopher Camila Vergara boldly argues in her book 'Systemic Corruption' that decay and corruption are inevitable even in liberal, representative systems because oligarchs end up capturing state governance and law. Ordinary people rarely have their own plebeian institutions to e…

Democracy from Below: How to Defeat Oligarchy | Camila Vergara & Clara Mattei

Why does democracy feel powerless against billionaires, war, and corruption?We all feel it: democracy doesn’t work the way it’s supposed to. The wealth of the few grows, while the majority struggles to survive. Wars rage, children starve, and our voices barely register.In this first FREE Forum even…

Legal Corruption: How Power Really Works | Camila Vergara & Clara Mattei

Corruption isn’t a scandal, it’s the law.Economist Clara Mattei and political theorist Camila Vergara expose how our democracy is designed to protect the wealthy. The constitution itself sets the rules of the game, rules that funnel power upward, reproduce inequality, and leave people powerless.Thi…

On Politics: Latin America’s Right-Wing Shift

At the end of the 20th century and across the first decade of the 21st, a swathe of countries across Latin America elected left-wing governments in what became known internationally as the Pink Tide. In more recent years, what many have seen as a second wave of progressive governments have collapse…

The Alternative to Capitalism Nobody Talks About | Eleanor Finley & Camila Vergara

War, austerity, and a political class that offers no way out. What does an actual alternative look like — one that's already being built?Dr. Camila Vergara sits down with Eleanor Finley, author of Practicing Social Ecology (Pluto Press), to trace how democratic, ecological alternatives to capitalis…

S3 E6 SYSTEM CORRUPTION with Camila Vergara_Part 1

Welcome to another episode of the Peaceful Political Revolution in America podcast. I want to begin today with a passage that has been sitting with me for some time. It comes from the Swiss scholar Pascal Lottaz, host of the Neutrality Studies podcast, in his March 2026 introduction to an intervie…

S3 E7 SYSTEM CORRUPTION with Camila Vergara_Part 2

Welcome back to another episode of the Peaceful Political Revolution in America podcast. Today I will share part two of my conversation with Camila Vergara, political theorist and author of Systemic Corruption: Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic. Camila is one of the leading theor…

S3 E9 Science Under Siege with Michael Mann

Welcome to the Peaceful Political Revolution in America podcast. In the last episode, Beau Breslin and I imagined what might have happened, had Thomas Jefferson won his famous argument with James Madison — if every generation of Americans had claimed the right to draft its own constitution. Jeffers…