How Chile Can Avoid Brazil's Fate
How Chile Can Avoid Brazil's Fate
By
Oliver Stuenkel
Chile's challenges are more than skin deep. As things stand, the political establishment will be hard-pressed to face them.
During a recent visit to Santiago, as massive street protests in the city entered their third month, most of the journalists, activists, academics and politicians I spoke to conceded that Chile was in far deeper trouble than many observers abroad seemed to realize.
The demonstrations and resulting government crackdown that made global headlines in October have largely fallen off the international radar, as Latin America watchers have moved on to social unrest in Colombia,...
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