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Weekly Report - 20 August 2015 (WR-15-33)
Chile’s Bachelet in fight-back mode
Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet, struggling with low opinion poll ratings, concern over corruption, and a weaker-than-expected economy, is trying to get back on track and get the balance right between adjusting her policies where necessary, on the one hand, and sticking to her guns, on the other. The government’s slogan of the moment is ‘realismo sin renuncia’. This can be roughly translated as ‘realism without surrender’. The big problem for Bachelet is that not all parties within the ruling Nueva Mayoría coalition have interpreted its meaning in the same way.
- Chile’s Bachelet in fight-back mode
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- ARGENTINA: Floods prompt accusations of dirty tricks
- ECUADOR: Correa confronts protests and strike
- COLOMBIA: Santos and Farc proposals incite criticism
- MEXICO: Stung into action by human rights criticism
- CUBA: Dissidents complain of abandonment
- SURINAME: Bouterse faces much tougher term in office
- PANAMA: Averting Canal threats
- NICARAGUA: Closing a chapter with the US
- Support for Paraguay’s Cartes starts to wane
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