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When 36-year-old Gabriel Boric was sworn in on Friday as the youngest president in Chilean history he immediately faced the need to resolve what is paradoxically the oldest problem this Andean nation has been enduring since before its independence in 1810. Back in 1796, José Cos de Iriberri, a Chilean merchant, praised “the opulence and More

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This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by Ariel Dorfman.

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