Michelle Bachelet

EspañolChilean President Michelle Bachelet's administration has approved US $14 billion in foreign investments, making it the stingiest in the country's history, due in part to a concern over environmental impact reports that don't meet…
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EspañolChile President Michelle Bachelet has lost significant popularity following the wildfires that ravaged the country the last two months. Bachelet's approval rating fell four points in February, according to the survey Adimark,…
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Español With 2016 winding down, Chilean president Michelle Bachelet is about to complete her third year in office. The next presidential election, however, will be held in November next year, as the numbers coming out of the Chilean…
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Is Chile More Equal Today? Bachelet Pursues Legacy I recently heard an interview with Claudio Sapelli, a researcher who has been working on the issue of equality in Chile for decades, and has recently published the second…
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Español Civil servant protests in Chile show that the country is only going to keep going downhill unless its leaders learn how to govern effectively. President Michelle Bachelet's entourage of left-wing thinkers glorify a statist…
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By Andrea Kohen EspañolRecent surveys in Chile are revealing an interesting phenomenon. The "popular" Michelle Bachelet administration, the one that called itself the voice of the people and bragged about its progressive reforms, has…
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EspañolThe human rights crisis in Venezuela is revealing Latin American leaders' lack of commitment to the defense of basic liberties. Among the lies  that have been exposed is the claim that, during the gloomy years of military…
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By Andrea Kohen EspañolOne of President Michelle Bachelet’s goals from the beginning of her mandate in 2014 has been to revise or rewrite Chile's constitution. The ruling progressive coalition's idea is to rid the country of a…
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EspañolOn Tuesday, March 8, Chile’s Supreme Court decided unanimously to allow workers to go on strike outside a company's collective bargaining process. "The mere fact that the law regulates strikes by means of regulated collective…
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The year 2015 saw the largest decline in global freedom in the past decade — so asserts human-rights NGO Freedom House in their latest report, "Freedom in the World 2016: Anxious Dictators, Wavering Democracies." Each year, the US-based…
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EspañolIt appears that the public image of Chilean President Michelle Bachelet is in recovery mode, even if a considerable majority of Chileans still regard her unfavorably. According to the GFK Adimark polling firm, her favorability…
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EspañolWhen Chilean Finance Minister Rodrigo Valdés presented the government's budget for 2016, he finally cleared up some of the uncertainty surrounding the feasibility of cutting public-spending growth. He may even have revealed more…
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