"Two recent presidential elections in Latin America resulted in important milestones: Xiomara Castro is poised to become the first female president of Honduras, while Gabriel Boric, 35, will be Chile’s youngest president. Beyond those historic occasions, there’s another remarkable dimension to the two victories: They represent a huge win for the Latin American left — both in the richest and in one of the poorest countries in the region... [Boric] The president-elect has vowed to fight Chile’s growing and notorious income inequality. He wants to reform Chile’s free-market economic model and favors expanding social protections for the poor, raising taxes on the wealthy, canceling student debt, and overhauling the nation’s private pension system to replace it with one run by the state."
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Hopeful political signs from Central and South America, Marcela GarcĂa, Boston Globe, Jan 1, 2022
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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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