Professor Camila Vergara draws on her experience living under the Pinochet regime in Chile to warn about the oligarchic trends within the United States over the intervening fifty years and the dangers posed to a healthy democracy. She advocates that only a strong civil society can keep things in check.
” Scholar Camila Vergara, author of Systemic Corruption:Constitutional Ideas For An Anti-Oligarchic Republic, speaks at a virtual event hosted by the Oregon Community Rights Network. [She] explains how the United States became Oligarchic and what regular folks can do to take their power […]”
