What’s in Store for Gabriel Boric? Consider 1980s Greece.
By
Nick Burns
An unexpected parallel carries a warning for Chile’s incoming president.
A charismatic activist who got his start in the university is elected amid calls for wide-reaching social and cultural change. With the memory of recent military rule still fresh in the minds of citizens, he sets out to promote progressive reforms on gender and other issues, and to build a more substantial social safety net. These words describe Gabriel Boric, who will take office as Chile’s next president in March. But they could just as easily describe another figure, from a very different time and place: Andreas Papandreou, Greece’s first socialist prime minister, who was swept...
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