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Chile heads into presidential runoff with a transformed political landscape

  • Written by Cristóbal Bellolio, Adjunct Professor, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

It took some time, but it seems Chile has finally entered a new political era.

For 27 years after the end of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, politics in this South American country were dominated by the same faces. The generation that, starting in 1990, led Chile through one of the world’s most celebrated democratic transitions stayed...

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