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...Delegate Felipe Harboe, a former senator who was part of the centre-left coalition led by former president Michelle Bachelet, recognised that the process has a “left majority” that is not representative...
...Former president Michelle Bachelet had first introduced the bill recognising the legal rights of same-sex couples to marry in 2017....
...power has traditionally resided firmly in Santiago....
...Armoured personnel carriers on the streets of Santiago bring back bad memories. So do riots and burning buildings....
...Some bankers and investors in Santiago feel he may have given too much ground....
...This may have exacerbated looting, which Michelle Bachelet’s government was able to control after a big earthquake in 2010, he said....
...The situation is not materially worse than 18 months ago when social democrat Michelle Bachelet left power....
...Patricio de Solminihac, 63, will be replaced by Ricardo Ramos Rodríguez, the current chief financial officer, in January, the Santiago-based company said....
...The Chinese embassy in Santiago did not respond to a request for comment....
...Without their support, he argues, Alejandro Guillier, who represents the rump of outgoing President Michelle Bachelet’s divided centre-left coalition, will struggle to beat the centre-right candidate, billionaire...
...Mr Piñera’s opponent in the run-off will be Alejandro Guillier, an outsider and former television anchor who represented the core of President Michelle Bachelet’s divided coalition and was in second place...
...His victory would leave Chile’s “fragmented and chaotic” centre-left coalition deeply damaged after the elections, says Harald Beyer, director of the CEP think-tank in Santiago....
...He will now face off against Alejandro Guillier, a former television anchor who represented the core of President Michelle Bachelet’s divided centre-left coalition, who came second with 22.7 per cent....
...Chile also needs to depoliticise the process of securing mining permits, said Jorge Bande, a director of Cesco, Santiago’s leading mining think-tank....
...The economic team of Chile’s president Michelle Bachelet resigned on Thursday in a major blow for the ruling centre-left coalition ahead of presidential elections in November....
...A third, more radical group formed by the students that became famous during mass street protests in 2011-13, who President Michelle Bachelet attempted to co-opt, have gone their own way....
...“I would like to ask President Mauricio Macri and all his ministers: where is Santiago Maldonado?”...
...About 200 megawatts per hour pulse from Latin America’s largest solar power station into nearby transmission lines that stretch more than 600km south to the capital Santiago from its location in the Atacama...
...Industrial negotiations are taking place against the backdrop of a new labour law brought in by Chile’s centre-left President Michelle Bachelet aimed at favouring unionised employees....
...private sector — which Mr Landerretche said could include a joint venture to pump water to mines in Chile’s northern Atacama Desert that could be “killed” by drought — is at odds with the general thrust of Michelle...
...The onus of saving has been transferred to individuals, says Jonathan Callund, a pensions policy consultant based in Santiago....
...In executive boardrooms across Santiago, there is a growing fear that leftist reforms championed by Chile’s president Michelle Bachelet threaten the free-market model that has produced what is arguably the...
...President Michelle Bachelet is watering down an ambitious reform programme in Chile, in the face of a gloomy economic scenario as the country adjusts to the end of the commodity boom....
...“Once again we must confront a powerful blow from nature,” Michelle Bachelet, president, said in a televised address....
...This month, Chilean senators are expected to pass a law that will make parking in shopping centres, which can cost up to $2.50 an hour in the glitzier malls of Santiago, free for the first half hour....
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