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Chile: Kast announces “difficult decisions” and rules out populist responses to oil crisis
Chilean President José Antonio Kast said he found the country “worse than he imagined” and warned his government will take unpopular adjustment measures, in an interview published on Saturday by the newspaper La Tercera, the first he has given since taking o...
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