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Weekly Report - 28 May 2020 (WR-20-21)

CHILE: Looking for a new consensus to overcome virus

With the coronavirus (Covid-19) epidemic in Chile still wreaking havoc on the country’s health system, economy, and society, President Sebastián Piñera has reached out to all political actors and asked for help in finding solutions to the problems assailing his government. Piñera’s attempt to build a consensus over how to overcome the crisis is commendable. But it is also a tacit admission that the strategy adopted by this administration to tackle the public health emergency and its fallout has failed to contain the outbreak and to address all its consequences appropriately, including the economic and social impact of the measures implemented to try to contain the virus.

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