Chile's constitutional convention rejected on Thursday night a set of proposals focused on expanding environmental protections, especially around the major mining sector, a blow to reformers which will push the articles back to committees to be reworked.
"Regretfully, our commission's [full proposal] was rejected," Camila Zarate, an environmental commission coordinator, told reporters after the vote. "We regret that [the assembly] gave its back to citizens, communities, the population and territories that have been mobilizing for years to make these great changes in this constitutional text."
