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Weekly Report - 18 September 2014 (WR-14-37)
CHILE: Highs and lows for Bachelet
Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet has just endured a week of very mixed emotions. In the space of a few days she had to contend with the explosion of a bomb in a fast-food restaurant outside a metro station in Santiago, just before the 41st anniversary of the military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet which resulted in the death of President Salvador Allende on 11 September 1973. The explosion injured 14 people. This act of terrorism somewhat dampened celebrations of the passage through congress of one of the Bachelet administration’s flagship policy proposals – a radical tax reform which seeks to redress social inequality in Chile and fund an overhaul of the education system.
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