Jeanette Jara Returns Home: What a Pity

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During the last presidential campaign, journalist Paula Escobar asked me why I was flatly dismissing voting for Jeannette Jara. When asking the question, she pointed out that the candidate had made an effort to represent the ideas of the centre-left and social democracy. My answer was direct: “Deleting a 40-year militancy in a party as orthodox as the Communist Party of Chile is impossible. Based on the doctrines of Lenin and Marx, its militants…