The risks facing the 'millennial' left

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The most progressive and hopeful Chile celebrates the triumph of Gabriel Boric, years old, in the second round of the presidential elections last Sunday. With almost % of the votes, he has led the far-right candidate, José Antonio Kast, by points. A sufficient victory, at first glance. But conservative forces won almost half of the seats in parallel legislative elections. Boric won't have it easy. Quite the opposite. The road will be full of risks. ) The forces resistant to change are very powerful, in Chile as in other countries in the region. They are well organized and have numerous levers to sabotage the change that the leftist candidate enthusiastically promises.

It is not encouraging that four out of five Chileans have decided to vote for someone as ultra as Kast, despite his mild manners. His exoneration from the repressive atrocities Egypt Email List of the Pinochet era is unjustifiable. But its adherence to the neoliberal economic policies of the seventies onwards is much more perverse, because it makes clear the will of the Chilean right not to renounce its privileges under any circumstances, even if this would require entrusting the commission to a confessed far-right. It is impossible not to remember that Salvador Allende's democratic socialist experience was sabotaged from within and without, under the inspiration, financing and pressure of North American multinational companies with the approval of the Nixon government.



Subsequently, the center governments of the Concertación were tolerated by those powers, because they never dared to touch basic elements of the very unequal social structure of the country. Boric is going to need a lot of luck and political intelligence based not on experience but on intuition and the loyalty of the forces that motivated the change a few years ago. Now, after the social explosion of , led by students, and the emergence of a new generation of leftist leaders who were then in their late twenties, there is an opportunity to address the great pending issue of restored democracy: justice social.