"In a time when the news from Ukraine looks grim, a brighter beacon of political and social transformation may be emerging in another part of the world: Chile. The so-called “Land of Poets” has embarked on a journey in which everyday people are designing a new national constitution. The delegates are working their way through unknown territory, against a backdrop of entrenched political divides and bitter conflicts that go back decades. The result of their handiwork, which will be put to a national vote on September 4, is anything but certain."