Rookie leader: Leftist ex-student activist Gabriel Boric was sworn in last Friday as Chile’s youngest-ever president. — AFP
THOUSANDS of miles away from the distressing theatre of war in Europe, a starkly different drama is unfolding in a south-western strip of Latin America.
The curtain rose in Chile on March 11 on what promises to be a new era with Gabriel Boric’s inauguration as president, while an elected Constitutional convention is rewriting the nation’s basic law to replace the “Magna Carta” thrust upon it in 1980 by the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
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