Tag: Sergio Bitar

• Wednesday, February 16th 2022 - 09:44 UTC

  A former Chilean Socialist minister considers “delirious” the nationalization of mining industry

  

  A veteran Chilean politician who among other appointments was Minister of Mines under the deposed Socialist government of Salvador Allende in 1973, and later held other ministerial responsibilities following the return of democracy in 1990, strongly criticized the initiative to again nationalize the mining companies which operate in Chile, as proposed in the Constitutional Convention drafting a new constitution.