A Small Miracle of Civility in Chile
A new book featuring four Chilean ex-presidents offers clues on how to overcome polarization.
This week, Latin American presidents gathered in Mexico for the inauguration of Claudia Sheinbaum. All those present hailed from the ideological left, including Cuba’s dictator and the democratically elected leaders of Guatemala, Colombia, Brazil, Chile and Honduras. On the same day, 4,500 miles away in Buenos Aires, Nayib Bukele and Javier Milei, the two celebrity leaders of the Latin American right, were standing on the balcony of the Casa Rosada waving to a crowd below. These were two separate gatherings, happening in what might have been two separate worlds, at a time when...
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