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Turn-key tyranny: For vassal states like Chile too?

Thursday, 13 June 2013 19:58
Written by Steve Anderson
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How will Chile’s leaders react after Edward Snowden’s leaks show the global reach of US Internet surveillance?

People in Chile and around the world learned last week that virtually all their private phone and Internet conversations are sucked up into a vast database operation run by the National Security Administration (NSA) in the United States and held for future reference.

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Bachelet: Not necessarily Chile’s next president

Monday, 03 June 2013 12:14
Written by Steve Anderson
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Opinion: Presidential front runner buffeted by adverse winds.

Since her return to Chile last month to begin her presidential primary campaign, favorite Michelle Bachelet — nominated by both the Socialist Party (PS) and the Party for Democracy (PPD) — has been facing unexpectedly strong headwinds.

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The illusion of participation in Chile’s presidential elections

Monday, 06 May 2013 13:13
Written by Raul H. Ojeda
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Opinion: Michelle Bachelet’s Concertación coalition fumbles badly; citizen blowback expected.
 
Patricio Aylwin, Chile’s president between 1990 and 1994, was the only leader of Chile’s center-left “Concertación for Democracy” coalition to receive the presidential nomination behind closed doors. All subsequent nominees during the Concertación’s 20-year reign of power were selected by primaries — making it the only political alliance to do so and thus giving the Concertción’s presidential candidates a symbolic legitimacy vitally needed in a country emerging from a horrible military dictatorship. 

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Chile’s presidential race off and running

Saturday, 06 April 2013 22:14
Written by Steve Anderson
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Opinion: Bachelet is but one of 12 candidates.

With former President Michelle Bachelet officially in the race, there are now 12 presidential candidates vying for the public’s attention. That number will soon be whittled down by about half, once the primaries take place mid-year in the right-leaning Alianza alliance and the left-leaning Concertación alliance. In addition to the primaries, several self-declared candidates either will or won’t get sufficient signatures gathered to officially put them on the ballot.

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Populism, MEO and Chile's future

Wednesday, 17 October 2012 15:13
Written by Steve Anderson
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The young progressive candidate may be the sum of the status quo's worst fears.

A poll by the Center for the Study of Contemporary Reality (CERC) released this week revealed, perhaps predictably, that Chileans were losing faith in their government. This study, however, included an added twist: not only are Chilean losing faith in the government, they are losing faith in the entire economic system the government seeks to hold up.

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