The lithium tender that will be awarded less than two months before the term of Sebastián Piñera’s government in Chile, the world’s second largest producer of the metal, raised suspicions in the opposition and in the team of the president-elect, the leftist Gabriel Boric. The auction seeks to award 400,000 tons of metallic lithium or […]
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Boric has the opportunity to reconfigure Chile (and to the Latin American left)
By Shannon O’Neil Leaders of the Latin American left celebrated the election of Gabriel Boric in Chile in December, while investors fell back, causing the country’s currency and stock market to crash. However, Boric has the opportunity to surprise both sides, charting a different left political path. Instead of selling the economic populism of Argentina […]
The Government of Mexico agrees with the president-elect of Chile on a future “strategic alliance”
Updated on 06/01/2022 04:25 pm The government of Mexico announced that it agreed with the president-elect of Chile, Gabriel Boric, establish a “strategic alliance” between the two countries once the left-wing politician takes office in March. The announcement was made by the Foreign Ministry in a statement on the content of the visit of its […]
Left-wing deputies present judicial appeal to stop the tender for new lithium contracts in Chile
Updated on 04/01/2022 04:25 pm A group of Chilean left-wing deputies presented before the courts a protection appeal to stop the bidding of contracts for the operation of lithium promoted by the government, in which the world’s two largest light metal producers are in the running. Lawmakers from the center-left opposition party PPD presented the […]
Boric’s triumph opens a new scenario in the relationship between Chile and Argentina
The triumph of the leftist Gabriel Boric in the recent presidential elections in Chile awakens several unknowns in Argentina on the future of the economic relationship between both countries and the South American regional integration process. The victory of Boric, who will succeed the conservative Sebastián Piñera in the Presidency of Chile from March, was […]
Arce talks by phone with Boric about the bilateral relationship Bolivia-Chile
Updated 12/30/2021 08:21 pm The President of Bolivia, Luis Arce, spoke by phone with the elected president of Chile, Gabriel Boric, on the importance of deepening the bilateral agenda between both countries, informed the Bolivian leader. “We had a pleasant telephone conversation with the brother president-elect of Chile, @gabrielboric, with whom we agreed on the […]
The ten challenges that Chile will have to face in 2022
Chile says goodbye to another particularly turbulent year with important pending tasks for 2022, including taking care of and completing the constituent process, facing the migration crisis on the northern border, tackling rising inflation or, in football terms, achieving qualification for Qatar 2022. Take care of the constituent process The social outbreak of 2019, the […]
Boric says his future government in Chile will prioritize the Pacific Alliance
The elected president of Chile, Gabriel Boric, affirmed that in matters of foreign policy, his future government, which takes office on March 11, 2022, will prioritize the relationship with the Pacific Alliance, which the country integrates together with Colombia, Mexico and Peru. “We are going to give priority to the Pacific Alliance in the future. […]
BofA: Chile’s Boric must reduce magnitude of tax reform
Updated on 12/24/2021 04:14 am Chile’s president-elect Gabriel Boric will be forced to moderate his plans, reduce the size of his tax reform and gradually advance on some spending problems, Bank of America analysts, including Sebastián Rondeau, Christian González, said in a note. and Gabriel Tenorio. Boric has shown some signs of restraint. Congressional restrictions […]
After Boric’s resounding triumph, the Chilean right seeks its direction
After the overwhelming triumph of the leftist Gabriel Boric, big questions are now being opened on the Chilean right, which is debating whether to take flight by establishing the conservative José Antonio Kast as the main leader of the opposition, second in the elections, or looking for new faces. “This unity around certain principles is […]