Weekly Report - 22 March 2018 (WR-18-11)

CHILE: Piñera sparks first tensions with opposition

Brazil & Southern Cone by LatinNews 22 March 2018 Modified: 22 March 2018 1220 views

President Sebastián Piñera’s conciliatory rhetoric upon taking office for a second term earlier this month [WR-18-10] looks short-lived. Last week his interior minister, Andrés Chadwick, announced that the new right-of-centre Chile Vamos coalition government was ditching a draft constitutional proposal, put forward by Piñera’s predecessor, Michelle Bachelet (2006-2010; 2014-2018), days before she left office.

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