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Weekly Report - 07 July 2011 (WR-11-27)
CHILE : Piñera on the back foot
President Sebastián Piñera is struggling to confront the second
serious wave of protests in the last couple of months which is progressively
undermining his government's authority. First the streets of central Santiago
reverberated with the sound of tens of thousands of protesters demonstrating
against the government's imminent approval of the construction of the
controversial mega hydroelectric dam HidroAysén in Chilean Patagonia [WR-11-21].
Then, once a week over the last month tens of thousands of students have
demonstrated against higher education reforms. The Piñera administration,
desperate to be seen to be adopting a consensual approach, has looked very
uncertain about how to deal with the protests.
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