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Weekly Report - 08 January 2015 (WR-15-01)
CHILE: Abortion gaffe claims first cabinet casualty
President Michelle Bachelet has lost her first cabinet minister, since taking office last March, amid a scandal over one of the most contentious political issues in Chilean politics - abortion. The health minister, Helia Molina, resigned on 30 December shortly after she made the sort of candid remark rarely ascribed to a politician. Molina said she was resigning to avoid causing any damage to the Bachelet administration but she was effectively forced out after the executive disowned her.
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