Security & Strategic Review - December 2003

The saying goes that even the paranoid have enemies, and many Chileans have recently been proclaiming that most of the region is plotting against them. A number of events involving relations with its three closest neighbours, and other countries further away, have created this situation over recent months, and though senior government officials have been trying to defuse a situation they had largely helped create, many analysts, the media and opposition politicians have been helping fuel public apprehension.