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Weekly Report - 20 November 2014 (WR-14-46)

CHILE: No respite for Bachelet

President Michelle Bachelet had barely been back in the country for five minutes after taking part in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in China before being whisked to a primary school in a Santiago municipality on 13 November to throw her weight behind her government’s education reform. The very next day the transport network in Santiago was plunged into chaos as the Metro suffered a massive power failure for the whole working day, the worst since it was first launched 40 years ago. Bachelet was forced to make a public apology for the “tremendous seriousness” of the power cut.

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