Fernando Atria Lemaitre (born 1968) is a Chilean intellectual, lawyer, university teacher and politician. Atria has been an avid participant of the intellectual debates about reforms in the Chilean education system and the

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. He has been called by ''

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'' "the ideologue of the 2011 Chilean student protests". Writing in ''El Desconcierto'' in 2018 pundit Rodrigo Karmy Bolton posits that Fernando Atria is

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's main "intellectual enemy". Similarly, there have been centre-right intellectuals like Hugo Eduardo Herrera who have been strong critics of Atria. In the

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Atria won a seat into the

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that drafted a new constitution proposal for Chile. During this time Atria made frequent TV appearances defending the work of the convention and the proposed constitution.

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