Wine with Leslie: Chilean wines
Chileans (and lovers of democracy) have had reason to celebrate in recent weeks with the landslide passing of a referendum in favour of creating a new constitution for Chile. The previous constitution is largely responsible for the income inequality in the country, and was drafted under the brutal dictator, Augusto Pinochet, who liked to torture and throw his political opponents out of helicopters.
When I visited Chile a few years ago I was pleased to see a statue of former president, Salvador Allende, in front of the Parliament building as a permanent reminder of the fact that Democracy can be fragile. Allende was deposed by a CIA-backed coup on September 11, 1973 and died at his desk.
