This month Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet was forced to replace her interior minister, Jorge Burgos, after he quit citing “personal reasons”. The departure of Burgos – Bachelet’s second interior minister since she took office in March 2014 – follows other signs of crisis in the Nueva Mayoría coalition government, which remains deeply unpopular due to various corruption scandals implicating the political and business establishment alike; its perceived foot-dragging on electoral pledges such as education reform; and its failure to effectively address the domestic economic slowdown.End of preview - This article contains approximately 1885 words.
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