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Weekly Report - 03 July 2014 (WR-14-26)
CHILE: Remodelling “model of democracy”
US President Barack Obama showered praise on Chile during a visit by President Michelle Bachelet to the White House this week. It was noteworthy that while Obama was hailing Chile as “a model of democracy in Latin America […] respectful of democratic traditions” and explaining how Bachelet “knows as well as anybody how difficult it was to bring about democracy”, back home Chile’s ruling Nueva Mayoría coalition was busy forging an alliance which could finally dismantle one of the last vestiges of the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) – the binominal electoral system which Bachelet recently described as “a thorn in the heart of our democracy [which] perpetuates exclusion”.
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