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This week’s R&D from Prepd covers Chilean politics.  Gabriel Boric, a former student activist, was sworn in as Chile’s new president last week.  Boric campaigned on a platform of social and environmental justice, pledging to move Chile away from the free market economic model of General Augusto Pinochet, who led Chile from December 1974-March 1990.  Markets are wary of his plans because of his association with communist groups, but Boric argues that his reforms will create more growth in the nation’s economy and be budget neutral.