La expansión de las facultades de la víctima en la Reforma Procesal Penal y con posterioridad a ella.

This paper contrasts the process of recognition of the victim's rights in the Chilean criminal procedure reform, which was introduced alongside the new accusatorial system in the year 2000, with the one that has occurred after that, which has consisted in several proposals for legal reforms, in a constitutional reform and in litigation before the Constitutional Court. The paper discusses the hypothesis that there is no continuity among the two phenomena, which are based in opposing understandings of the issues at hand. Finally, there is a description of how, if some or all of the new reform proposals that affect the victim's rights are implemented, the Chilean criminal procedure will face a unique situation, and one that was in no way foreseen by promoters of the original reforms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]