Left wins Chilean election

[PinkFinal]

Leftist Gabriel Boric to become Chile's youngest ever president

Gabriel Boric, 35, says he will look after democracy after a convincing win over his far-right rival.

www.bbc.co.uk

Right wing candidate has conceded. Son of a former Nazi Party member and Wehrmacht lieutenant.

 

[urban genie]

Expect the CIA are already planning the date to start stiring up protests and what day they will be initiating a coup

 

[mat]

Expect the CIA are already planning the date to start stiring up protests and what day they will be initiating a coup

Beat me too it.

Another Sept 11 coming up.

The Other 9/11

Chile’s constitutional rewrite aims to extinguish the lingering legacy of the 1973 coup.

foreignpolicy.com

 

[Postman Pep]

How you spelling that sir? Funny that name rings a bell...

 

[Manc in London]

How you spelling that sir? Funny that name rings a bell...

Interesting name. Especially when you consider the history of politics in Chile.

 

[mat]

Interesting name. Especially when you consider the history of politics in Chile.

Maggies best mate had that name...

 

[Manc in London]

Maggies best mate had that name...

He was housed about a mile away from where I now live. The little bugger. Which a short while later became a Priory Clinic. Just around the corner from the X Factor house. Convenient :)

 

[Vic]

I was in Parliament (can't now remember why) in 2000 and attended (for a short while) the House of Lords case whether Pinochet could be extradited to Spain to face torture charges.

Though it was first said in Central American where the CIA was directly involved, the test question for Americans (and Thatcher and other sympathisers) was always "What are we doing on the side that's murdering nuns?"