Right-Wing Businessman Sebastián Piñera Is Chile’s New President

January 18, 2010

Right-wing businessman Sebastián Piñera is Chile’s next president, after his rival from the governing party, Eduardo Frei, conceded defeat, putting an end to twenty years of center-left governments, in power since the end of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship.

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For decades, Ecuador was perceived as an exception in a region plagued by drug trafficking, armed violence, and criminal capture of the state. While neighboring countries faced open wars between cartels and state forces, Ecuador seemed to remain on the sidelines of these dynamics. That image began to slowly crack and finally collapsed in January […]

Right-Wing Businessman Sebastián Piñera Is Chile’s New President

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