Ex-student protest leader, Gabriel Boric, becomes Chile's youngest president
2 years, 9 months ago

Ex-student protest leader, Gabriel Boric, becomes Chile's youngest president

The Hindu  

Left-leaning former student leader Gabriel Boric vowed to improve the lives of all Chileans and attack deep inequality that has sparked massive protests, hours after being inaugurated Friday as the youngest president in the country's history. Mr. Boric takes office as well at a moment when large-scale immigration from Venezuela and other countries has caused unrest in northern Chile while violent protests by some Indigenous rights activists demanding historic territories have caused clashes in the south. Mr. Boric has called for greater taxes on the wealthy to help finance improved health care, education and a universal pension plan to replace a privately run system that has proven inadequate for many. In his speech Friday, Mr. Boric said he hopes when his term ends in four years, we “feel that it is a country that protects us, that welcomes us, that takes care of us and guarantees our rights and justly rewards contribution and sacrifice."

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Chile’s leftist president vows to seek repeal of dictatorship-era amnesty law
3 months, 1 week ago

Chile’s leftist president vows to seek repeal of dictatorship-era amnesty law

Associated Press  

SANTIAGO, Chile — Chile’s left-wing president President Gabriel Boric on Wednesday promised to push for the repeal of an iron-clad amnesty that has for years ruled out most investigation of crimes against humanity committed by Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship. President Boric’s vow — during a speech commemorating the 51st anniversary of Gen. Pinochet’s bloody U.S.-backed putsch that ended Chilean …

Chile’s Boric reshuffles cabinet after new constitution rejected
2 years, 3 months ago

Chile’s Boric reshuffles cabinet after new constitution rejected

Al Jazeera  

President Gabriel Boric changes leadership of six ministries in first cabinet shake-up since he took office in March. Chile’s President Gabriel Boric has shaken up his cabinet, less than 48 hours after he was dealt a resounding blow when citizens overwhelmingly rejected a new progressive constitution he had championed. Boric, 36, changed the leadership of six government ministries on Tuesday …

Ex-student protest leader becomes Chile’s youngest president
2 years, 9 months ago

Ex-student protest leader becomes Chile’s youngest president

Associated Press  

SANTIAGO, Chile — Left-leaning former student leader Gabriel Boric vowed to improve the lives of all Chileans and attack deep inequality that has sparked massive protests, hours after being inaugurated Friday as the youngest president in the country’s history. Boric takes office as well at a moment when large-scale immigration from Venezuela and other countries has caused unrest in northern …

Chile swears in new President Gabriel Boric in ‘historic shift’
2 years, 9 months ago

Chile swears in new President Gabriel Boric in ‘historic shift’

Al Jazeera  

Boric, elected on an ambitious social-democratic agenda, will oversee a referendum on Chile’s new constitution. “What we’re seeing here is really an historic shift, a real sign of the changing times in this country,” Al Jazeera’s Latin America editor Lucia Newman reported from outside the Senate building in Valparaiso. “It’s a sign that it’s going to be an inclusive government,” …

Chile president-elect Boric unveils women-majority cabinet
2 years, 11 months ago

Chile president-elect Boric unveils women-majority cabinet

Al Jazeera  

Fourteen of Chile’s 24 new cabinet ministers are women, while several are former student protest leaders. Gabriel Boric, Chile’s left-wing president-elect, has announced his first cabinet, giving a majority of the posts to women and several to former student protest leaders. “This Cabinet’s mission is to lay the foundations for the great reforms that we have proposed in our programme,” …

Change in Chile: The Hindu Editorial on left-wing leader Gabriel Boric’s win
3 years ago

Change in Chile: The Hindu Editorial on left-wing leader Gabriel Boric’s win

The Hindu  

The sweeping victory of Gabriel Boric, the 35-year-old left-wing leader, in Sunday’s presidential run-off election, is a testimony to how Chile has changed. Mr. Boric, one of the protest leaders who promised to “bury neoliberalism” during his campaign, built an alliance of social democrats and communists that took on the Republican Party’s José Antonio Kast. While Mr. Boric promised to …

Leftist millennial vows to remake Chile after historic win
3 years ago

Leftist millennial vows to remake Chile after historic win

Associated Press  

SANTIAGO, Chile — Former leftist student leader Gabriel Boric will be under quick pressure from his youthful supporters to fulfill his promises to remake Chile after the millennial politician scored a historic victory in the country’s presidential runoff election. With 56% of the votes, Boric on Sunday handily defeated his opponent, far right lawmaker José Antonio Kast, and at age …

Leftist millennial wins election as Chile's next president
3 years ago

Leftist millennial wins election as Chile's next president

India TV News  

A leftist millennial who rose to prominence during anti-government protests was elected Chile's next president Sunday after a bruising campaign against a free-market firebrand likened to Donald Trump. With 56 per cent of the votes, Gabriel Boric handily defeated by more than 10 points lawmaker José Antonio Kast, who tried unsuccessfully to scare voters that his young, inexperienced opponent would …

Gabriel Boric to become Chile’s next President
3 years ago

Gabriel Boric to become Chile’s next President

The Hindu  

A leftist millennial who rose to prominence during anti-government protests was elected Chile’s next President on December 19 after a bruising campaign against a free-market firebrand likened to Donald Trump. In a model of democratic civility that broke from the polarizing rhetoric of the campaign, Mr. Kast immediately conceded defeat, tweeting a photo of himself on the phone congratulating his …

Chile’s president-elect Boric meets with outgoing leader Pinera
3 years ago

Chile’s president-elect Boric meets with outgoing leader Pinera

Al Jazeera  

Chilean President-elect Gabriel Boric has met with outgoing President Sebastian Pinera in Santiago, just hours after the left-wing candidate’s historic election victory. Al Jazeera’s Latin America editor Lucia Newman, reporting from Santiago, said Boric took time to greet his supporters outside the presidential palace before his meeting with Pinera. Kast, whose campaign also fuelled fears among Chilean women and members …

Gabriel Boric wins Chile’s presidential election
3 years ago

Gabriel Boric wins Chile’s presidential election

Al Jazeera  

Former student activist pledges to be a president ‘for all Chileans’ after stunning election win. pic.twitter.com/u51WyRuheN — Boris van der Spek December 20, 2021 Boric, who will take office in March, has tapped into public anger at Chile’s market-oriented economic model, widely considered to have helped drive decades of rapid economic growth but stoking inequality. “Boric is promising to be …

Chile assets slump after left-wing leader Boric wins presidency
3 years ago

Chile assets slump after left-wing leader Boric wins presidency

Al Jazeera  

Investors are concerned Gabriel Boric’s policies will upend one of the wealthiest economies in Latin America with higher taxes, increased social spending and more government regulation of business. Chilean assets tumbled after left-wing candidate Gabriel Boric rolled to a blowout victory in Sunday’s presidential election, giving him a broad mandate to push ahead with an overhaul of Latin America’s most …

Leftist Gabriel Boric, 35, wins Chile’s presidential election
3 years ago

Leftist Gabriel Boric, 35, wins Chile’s presidential election

CNN  

CNN — Leftist and former student leader Gabriel Boric, 35, will become Chile’s youngest President after he won a presidential runoff election on Sunday. Earlier Sunday, Kast conceded the election to Boric and congratulated his opponent “on his great triumph.” “From today he is the elected President of Chile and deserves all our respect and constructive collaboration. “It doesn’t matter …

Gabriel Boric | The face of Chile’s new Left
3 years ago

Gabriel Boric | The face of Chile’s new Left

The Hindu  

Chileans will go out to vote today in the second — and decisive — round of the country’s most consequential presidential elections in over three decades. Far-right candidate Jose Antonio Kast, 55, of the Republican Party finished on top with 28% of the vote while the left-wing alliance’s Gabriel Boric, 35, a former student leader and two-time Congressman, came second …

From student protester to leftist hero: Meet the shaggy-haired millennial vying for Chile’s presidency
3 years ago

From student protester to leftist hero: Meet the shaggy-haired millennial vying for Chile’s presidency

CNN  

CNN — Just ten years ago, Gabriel Boric was a student leader in the Chilean capital, rallying against the country’s privatized education system alongside thousands of other students in Santiago. Economist Raphael Bergoeing, who is also the president of Chile´s National Productivity Commission told CNN that many of Boric’s policies “go in the right direction, but I am afraid that …

Runoff looms in Chile as far-right Kast leads presidential vote
3 years, 1 month ago

Runoff looms in Chile as far-right Kast leads presidential vote

Al Jazeera  

Far-right former legislator Jose Antonio Kast will meet left-wing activist Gabriel Boric in Chile’s presidential runoff on December 19. “They are playing songs that are talking about security and freedom – the two main planks of Kast’s campaign.” At Boric’s offices in Santiago, the mood was equally festive. “I am not going to vote for Gabriel Boric’s candidacy, and I …

Gabriel Boric and José Antonio Kast head to run-off vote in Chile
3 years, 1 month ago

Gabriel Boric and José Antonio Kast head to run-off vote in Chile

CNN  

CNN — The race to replace Chilean President Sebastián Piñera is now down to two candidates after a general election was held on Sunday. José Antonio Kast, a candidate of the hard right, garnered 28 percent of the vote during Sunday’s election in Chile, missing the necessary 50 percent needed to avoid a runoff. Kast, whose recent surge in popularity …

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