Gabriel Boric’s Unlikely Legacy
By
Patricia Garip
Chile’s president is steering the country back to its tradition of moderate politics.
SANTIAGO — Fresh off his 2021 primary victory, President Gabriel Boric famously predicted that “if Chile was the cradle of neoliberalism, it would also be its tomb.” Three years later, his ambition to remake Chile got buried instead. Now approaching his final year in office, the former student activist often sounds less like Marxist icon Salvador Allende and more like the traditional center-left politicians he once derided. He espouses growing the economic pie, vows “mano dura” against crime, and blasts Venezuela as a dictatorship....
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