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Weekly Report - 06 August 2020 (WR-20-31)

CHILE: No respite for Piñera

Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera delivered the annual state-of-the-nation address before a sparsely filled congress in Valparaíso on 31 July (for sanitary reasons, most lawmakers joined the event remotely). If Piñera had hoped that his third annual balance, delivered within a week of him conducting a major cabinet reshuffle and bowing to congress and public opinion by promulgating a pension bill he opposed [WR-20-30], might have been an opportunity to wipe the slate clean after a year marked by social unrest and the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, he will have been disappointed. The tone and content of his speech were immediately slammed by the political opposition, while his government must now also contend with a flare-up in the long-running tensions between public authorities and the Mapuche indigenous people in the south of the country.

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