Mining companies anxious as left-winger takes reins in Chile
Youthful president Gabriel Boric has broad popular support, but foreign investors and local business groups are wary of his reform agenda.
Santiago | Left-winger Gabriel Boric will on Friday (Saturday AEDT) assume office in Chile, promising the most radical presidential agenda since the country’s return to democracy in 1990.
The 36-year-old former lawmaker and student activist wants to nationalise lithium mining to finance free education and healthcare for all, shake up the country’s private superannuation and health insurance industries, close tax loopholes to corporations and the rich, mandate a liveable minimum wage and put the rights of women and indigenous nations at the centre of a social and judicial revamp.
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