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Chileans vote in Sandy as Chile’s proposed new constitution goes down in defeat
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SANDY — Patricia North, originally from Santiago, Chile, but now living in Vineyard, is a long way away from the South American nation.
But she still cares about what happens there, and on Sunday she was one of perhaps hundreds from around Utah who cast a ballot in the nation’s plebiscite on a proposed new Chilean constitution. “My family’s still there. I want them to be safe,” she said after casting her vote at the balloting site set up in Sandy for Chilean expatriates.
Chile’s constitution, drawn up in 1980 during the regime of former dictator Augusto Pinochet, has been the focus of intense debate dating to national protests in 2019 focused on a range of social issues. Chileans last year overwhelming rejected a proposed new constitution perceived as left-leaning that emerged from the debate. The new proposal, drawn up by a group of right-leaning officials, was similarly headed toward defeat as of late Sunday afternoon, the Associated Press and other media outlets reported.
Whatever the case, Sunday’s voting in Sandy drew a passionate contingent of Chilean expatriates in Utah. The Chilean Consulate of Los Angeles, California, which covers Utah, Colorado, Southern California and other parts of the Southwestern United States, set up the site, one of many remote balloting places across the United States and around the world.
Kathleen Frez, now living in Lehi but originally from Santiago, was among the voters in Sandy, like North. She called it a civic duty to vote, even if she is so far from Chile. “We all want the best for our country,” Frez said.
Some 15 million Chileans in all went to the polls on Sunday, including expatriates in Utah and the rest of the world. Since 2017, Chileans living abroad have had the right to vote remotely in presidential elections and national referendums, according to Francisco Leal, consul general of the Chilean Consulate in Los Angeles, California, which covers Utah. Some 1,300 Chileans now living in Utah and Colorado were properly registered to vote on Sunday, he said, and they formed a steady stream at the polling place in Sandy.
Fernando Maluenda and his wife Priscila Maluenda, now living in South Jordan, took part. “We still feel Chilean,” Priscila Maluenda said.
Maybe their votes won’t sway things, Fernando Maluenda added, but still, he wanted to have his say. “You always have the hope that Chile will have a better future,” he said.
Several departing the Sandy voting place inside the Best Western Plus Cottontree Inn expressed support for the proposed new constitution.
North worries the nation has been on a downward spiral with increasing crime and more and more undocumented immigrants entering the nation from Venezuela and Colombia. She saw the proposed new constitution as a way to help counter those trends.
“I want my country to keep going, even if I stay here,” she said.
After so much protesting and instability in Chile in recent years, Karoll Adonis, originally from Santiago and now living in Provo, similarly viewed the proposed constitution as a way of bringing stability back to the country. “Now with everything that’s happening, I think we’re going backward,” she said.
Camila Gonzalez, now living in Midvale but originally from the northern Chilean city of Antofagasta, voted against the proposed constitution. It doesn’t do enough to protect the environment, a big concern for her, she said, and she also worries it chips away at abortion rights in the nation, already limited. What’s more, she doesn’t think the public had enough say in putting the proposal together.
Mulling the prospect of defeat, however, Gonzalez wouldn’t favor moves to put a third proposal to the public anytime soon. “I think we’re tired of voting so much. We’ve gone through a lot of votes in so little time,” she said.
Sandy was one of 10 U.S. cities where expatriate Chileans could vote and among many more locations all around the world. More than 127,000 Chileans in all outside the South American nation were eligible to vote, including just over 20,000 in the United States, according to the Chilean Electoral Service.
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Utah Hockey Club at Toronto Maple Leafs (7 p.m. ET; TVAS, TSN4, NHLN, Utah16)
Mitch Marner, William Nylander and John Tavares have all stepped up for the Maple Leafs (12-6-2) in the absence of captain Auston Matthews and look to continue the trend against Utah (8-9-3) at Scotiabank Arena. Marner has 12 points (four goals, eight assists), Nylander nine points (four goals, five assists) and Tavares eight points (four goals, four assists) in the seven games without Matthews, who is out with an upper-body injury. Toronto has won three in a row and is 6-1-0 without Matthews, who skated prior to practice Saturday and said he could return from an upper-body injury this upcoming week. Marner leads Toronto with 26 points (six goals, 20 assists) in 20 games and has points in six of the seven games Matthews has missed. Maple Leafs goalie Joseph Wall made 31 saves in a 3-0 win against the Vegas Golden Knights on Wednesday for his first shutout of the season and second in the NHL. Utah is playing the second game of a back-to-back for the first time in team history and will look to build on a 6-1 win at the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday. Dylan Guenther had two goals and an assist, and Clayton Keller had three assists, helping Utah end a three-game losing streak. Goalie Jaxson Stauber could make his Utah debut after being recalled from Tucson of the American Hockey League on Wednesday; the 25-year-old has not played an NHL game since Feb. 22, 2023, with the Chicago Blackhawks. No. 1 goalie Connor Ingram has missed the past two games with an upper-body injury.
It takes a complete football team to win a championship. Iowa State is finding that out with each passing week.
Seemingly left for dead in the heated Big 12 Conference race, the Cyclones now find themselves one win away from competing for the league title following a thrilling 31-28 victory over Utah Saturday night.
Iowa State (9-2, 7-2) reached the nine-win mark before a bowl game for the first time in program history, and could end one of the longest droughts in NCAA history by reaching 10 wins. The Cyclones and Vanderbilt are the only remaining Power 5 programs to never reach 10 wins, as Indiana did earlier this year.
After taking a 24-13 lead on Utah midway through the third quarter, the Cyclones needed a rally, scoring the game-winning touchdown with 91 seconds to go. The defense forced a missed field goal to seal the win.
Here are three stars from Iowa State’s win over Utah:
Known for his power running, Carson Hansen showed off his arm on a key third-down trick play that led to his second rushing touchdown. Hansen, a sophomore, took a halfback pass and found Gabe Burkle for a 26-yard completion.
That put the ball at the Utah 3 and Hansen would plow his way into the end zone on the next play for the game-winning points. He finished the night with a team-high 57 yards on 14 carries to go along with the 26-yard pass while also catching two balls for another 28 yards.
At 6-2 and over 220 pounds, Hansen is the thunder to Abu Sama’s lightning. He now has 11 rushing touchdowns on the year to go along with 560 yards after rushing for just 67 last season as a freshman.
Anytime Rocco Becht needed to make a big play in the passing game, he looked in the direction of Jayden Higgins. And Higgins stepped up for his quarterback, who was not quite as sharp as he typically has been.
Higgins finished with nine receptions for 155 yards and a touchdown, surpassing 1,000 yards for the season. The 6-foot-4 senior out of South Miami became just the seventh different Cyclone to reach the number after missing out last year with 983 yards.
With at least two, and maybe more, games to go, Higgins sits sixth on the school’s single-season list for yards with 1,015. Hakeem Butler is first with 1,318. Higgins and teammate Jaylin Noel, who has 976 yards, are set to become the first Cyclone teammates to eclipse 1,000 yards in the same season in school history.
Higgins is also just two yards away from becoming just the 10th Iowa State receiver to reach 2,000 career yards, joining the likes of Allen Lazard, Xavier Hutchinson and Charlie Kolar, along with Noel.
It’s been a difficult season in regards to injuries on both sides of the ball for Iowa State. But the defense has really been hurt with Malik Verdon out.
Verdon, a junior, recorded a team-leading 12 tackles including a sack, as the Cyclones held Utah to just 99 yards of total offense through three quarters.
And while the Utes were able to finally put together sustained drives in the fourth, when they needed to make a play, Iowa State did. Verdon went out for a short time after appearing to reinjure his arm that has a cast due to a hairline fracture, but would return to the field later in the fourth.
The Iowa State football team has two weeks to solidify themselves and possibly land a spot in the Big 12 championship game in December.
Part one of the two-piece series starts Saturday night, as the Cyclones (8-2, 5-2) make a visit to Salt Lake City to play Utah (4-6, 1-6).
Sitting a game behind co-conference leaders BYU and Colorado, Iowa State is in position but on the outside looking in for the time being. They also have red-hot Arizona State to contend with, as the Sun Devils have quickly climbed the standings and sit tied with ISU.
Utah has dropped six straight since starting the season off 4-0 as preseason favorites to win the Big 12. Of those six losses, four have been decided by eight points or less. Last Saturday, though, they suffered a 25-point setback to Colorado.
Along with several tough losses, the Utes have been without star quarterback Cam Rising since the losing skid began. Rising is out for the season following multiple injuries, as Isaac Wilson – the brother of NFL QB Zack Wilson – has replaced him.
Iowa State and Utah have a bit of a history, playing each other five times between 1970-2010. The Cyclones won the first four meetings between the two while the Utes won the most recent, claiming a 68-27 victory. Utah was undefeated and ranked 10th in the country during that encounter.
The oddsmakers have the Cyclones set as a 6.5-point favorite. ESPN’s FPI puts them at just over 63 percent to win the game.
Here are the details on how to watch, stream and follow Iowa State’s game at Utah on Saturday night:
Iowa State at Utah TV Channel, Live Stream, Odds
Who: Iowa State at Utah in a Big 12 football game
When: 6:30 p.m. CT | Saturday, November 23
Where: Rice-Eccles Stadium | Salt Lake City, Utah
Live Stream: Stream Iowa State-Cincinnati live on fuboTV (Start your free trial)
TV Channel: FOX
Betting Odds: Iowa State is favored by 6.5 points. Odds courtesy of FanDuel Sportbook
Our Prediction: Iowa State 24, Utah 10
Live Updates, Highlights: Follow the game on Iowa State on SI for live updates, in-game analysis and big-play highlights throughout Saturday’s matchup.
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