Chilean conservatives clear win in Punta Arenas, first time in almost thirty years

Wednesday, October 26th 2016 - 11:10 UTC

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The Chilean conservative alliance “Chile, let's go” which achieved a sweeping victory in last Sunday's municipal elections, causing a serious disarray to the ruling coalition New Majority with only a year before the 2017 presidential election, also managed to win the Punta Arenas mayoralty for the first time since the end of the Pinochet era. Read full article

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Marti Llazo
Chanchelet's government and her coalition have been the very portrait of socialist ineptitude, weakness, political correctness, and corruption as the country's fortunes circle the drains. Her approval ratings of down around 15% have been the lowest of any president since Chile's return to democracy in 1990. Chile has pretended for far too long that it is free of corruption and Chanchelet provided the opportunity for dispelling that myth. Not that Piñera did much better since people over in Chile remember his weak performance in failing to effectively deal with two damaging regional rebellions. But Chile's peso inflation is nowhere near that of Argentina and right now Punta Arenas is full of Argentines buying up things that cost a great deal more here in Río Gallegos.
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