"Ten years ago, Gabriel Boric was a 25 year-old student protester... leading tens of thousands of young people through the streets of Santiago. As head of a major student union, he shook Chile’s establishment by leading rallies that brought reforms to Chile’s privatized education system. Today... Boric is within striking distance of Chile’s presidency. Chile’s Dec. 19 election, where Boric holds a narrow lead, is the most high-stakes moment yet in a tumultuous two year national debate over the market-centered economic model established by military dictator Augusto Pinochet in the 1980s. With deregulated business and privatized public services and natural resources, the system helped make Chile a haven for foreign investors and one of the richest countries in South America. But it has also generated the highest rate of inequality in the OECD group of developed nations and untenable living costs for poorer Chileans, with six in ten households earning too little to cover monthly expenses..."
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The Leftist Millennial Who Could Lead One of Latin America's Wealthiest and Most Unequal Countries, by Ciara Nugent, Time.com, November 19, 2021
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Gabriel Boric
Gabriel Boric Font (born 11 February 1986) is a Chilean politician currently serving as the President of Chile since 11 March 2022. Boric studied in the Faculty of Law at the University of Chile, and was the President of the University of Chile Student Federation in 2012. As a student representative, he became one of the leading figures of the 2011–2013 Chilean student protests. During the 2019 civil unrest in Chile, Boric was one of the politicians negotiating the agreement that paved the way f
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