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Weekly Report - 04 August 2016 (WR-16-30)
CHILE: Bachelet under attack on new fronts
Chile is facing its worst political and institutional crisis, aside from the 1973 coup d’état that overthrew President Salvador Allende (1970-1973). This was the conclusion of former president Ricardo Lagos (2000-2006) who, in a recent interview with a leading national daily, La Tercera, launched an attack on the Nueva Mayoría coalition government led by President Michelle Bachelet (which includes Lagos’s own Partido por la Democracia [PPD]). This was an allusion to the credibility crisis afflicting the political and business establishment alike stemming from various corruption scandals. His attack came as Bachelet is facing fresh unrest over another unfulfilled 2013 electoral pledge –overhauling the country’s current pension system which dates back to the military dictatorship led by General Augusto Pinochet [1973-1990]).
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