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Pink Tide 2.0? The Same Trap Awaits

Yannik John | September 22, 2022

The label “pink tide” was already misleading 20 years ago. Today, with even more pronounced distinctions between the left-wing presidents and diverse ...
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Challenges Facing Chile’s Next Government: Part 1

Evan Ellis | December 14, 2021

The Chilean election poses a positive, if selective, narrative about Chile’s past and its remarkable transformation, against a new generation’s discontent ...
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Patricio Navia: El Chile de la esperanza y de la frustración

Patricio Navia | April 2, 2021

Como evidenciando una cierta bipolaridad, la sociedad chilena ha transitado rápidamente entre la esperanza y la frustración en los últimos 3 años. Aunque ...
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Chile’s quest for constitutional reform: Risk or opportunity?

Anders Beal | March 19, 2020

Chile’s plebiscite has been pushed to October 25 after concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic. But as debate over reforming the country’s constitution ...
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Chile: Has President Sebastián Piñera’s political honeymoon come to an abrupt end?

Lucas Perelló | August 15, 2018

Five months into his second presidency, Sebastián Piñera has seen his popularity drop. Unrealistic expectations over economic growth and a series of ...
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Sebastián Piñera seems destined to win Chile’s presidential election in a stale political climate

Lucas Perelló | November 15, 2017

With former president Sebastián Piñera seemingly cruising to victory, Chile appears set to have been ruled by two people for 16 of the 32 years since its ...
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Chilean President Michelle Bachelet reshuffles her economic cabinet, again

Lucas Perelló | September 5, 2017

Disagreement over a mining project forced Bachelet’s economic advisers to resign from their posts, marking the president’s second break with a Secretary ...
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In Chile, a weakened left faces a strengthened right

Lucas Perelló | April 6, 2017

With primaries and general elections around the corner, the ruling center-left New Majority coalition has splintered and been dragged down by president ...
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