Gabriel Boric is the new president of Chile.
He beat the far-right candidate José Antonio Kast by almost 11% of the vote, almost 1 million more ballots than his competitor.
At 35, he is the youngest president in the history of Chile.
He was only 4 years old when Pinochet left office.
He is part of the first political generation which did not know the persecutions of the dictatorship, the “
generation without fear
” as it is qualified in Chile.
He got his start in politics during the student movements of 2011, which protested against the Chilean education system.
The very high cost of studies at the time forced students to take on heavy debt.
One of the legacies of the Pinochet regime, for which only the private sector should act, because it was more effective, whether in education, health or pensions.
A policy borrowed from the Chicago Boys, ultraliberal economists who will then inspire the governments of Ronald Reagan and ...
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