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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.
On Friday, Gabriel Boric was officially sworn in as Chile’s president.
— World Politics Review (@WPReview) March 14, 2022
His success will depend on “his ability to forge partnerships beyond the ranks of the far-left political family from which he has emerged,” wrote Cristóbal Kaltwasser last December.https://t.co/ghth7TptEv
For now, all eyes will be on Chile’s boyish Gabriel Boric https://t.co/gcW2S4xmEe
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) March 14, 2022
Chile’s Boric pledges to balance social reforms with fiscal caution https://t.co/9hIXOEsyrh pic.twitter.com/TGWkTdqEUq
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 15, 2022
New Chilean President Gabriel Boric is set to be sworn in on Friday as the country’s youngest ever president. Mr. Boric has big plans to transform the country’s market-oriented economic model with progressive social reform and a focus on fighting … https://t.co/H09B21fZkQ
— The Christian Science Monitor (@csmonitor) March 11, 2022
Gabriel Boric: The president on a mission to breakaway from Chile’s Pinochet past https://t.co/qOrMKVMTK4
— The Times (@thetimes) March 12, 2022
Chile’s latest revolution: President Boric pledges gender equality https://t.co/nP9DTo9HO8
— The Independent (@Independent) March 13, 2022
Left-leaning former student leader Gabriel Boric vowed to improve the lives of all Chileans and attack deep inequality that has sparked massive protests, hours after being inaugurated Friday as the youngest president in the country’s historyhttps://t.co/ayVAIU0GVY
— The Hindu (@the_hindu) March 12, 2022
Boric sworn in as Chile’s youngest-ever President: “Violation of Human Rights will never happen again” https://t.co/Sr2Wq50Og2
— MercoPress (@MercoPressNews) March 12, 2022
Gabriel Boric’s government may waste money on industrial policy and regulate business so much that it cannot prosper https://t.co/Vr49VBvC26
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) March 12, 2022
Chile’s moderate central bank chief, Mario Marcel, has been appointed finance minister by incoming president Gabriel Boric. Analysts say the move signals Boric, the social democrat, is more modern and pragmatic than anti-market https://t.co/jvqg1ilNI6
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) January 21, 2022