Chile’s President Michelle Batchelet gave a talk at the London School of Economics on Friday. Maria and I, and what seemed to be the entire Chilean diaspora in London, went to hear her. She said:
“I believe that [in Chile] for so long we have struggled to be free, in many ways we forgot to be fair. We forgot that fair democracy requires equality of opportunity that comes from access to education, healthcare, social security or housing…Democracy must deliver goods, especially to those who have made great sacrifices in recent years but who have received very little reward, as shown by the levels of poverty which still prevail in Latin America.”