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Brazil & Southern Cone - June 2016 (ISSN 1741-4431)
More cracks at the top as Bachelet loses another interior minister
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.
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