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Brazil & Southern Cone - August 2011 (ISSN 1741-4431)
CHILE: Implications of the student protests
The big political beneficiary of the three months of protests is an independent politician currently outside congress, Marco Enríquez-Ominami. Enríquez-Ominami, a former socialist deputy, ran for the presidency in 2009 and claims that both the left-of-centre Concertación (which ruled Chile from 1990 to 2010) and the current right-wing government led by President Sebastián Piñera are much the same.
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