[ikka]

Patricio Meller, a Christian Democrat whom Socialist president Michelle Bachelet has asked to chair a national commission on social equity, criticizes the private pensions, saying that they aren’t inclusive enough and should also cover nonworking mothers and the unemployed. Meller has recommended the creation of a national minimum income for every family.

Bachelet hates Pinochet and everything he stands for, and will do anything to kill his legacy, even if it means destroying Chile along with it.

[BrianFH]

There are some intense political economic pressures building on Chile, as a result of the combo of drought cutting hydro power and Argentina’s and Bolivia’s cutbacks of natural gas sales. It is attempting to fast-track LNG import facilities, but hasn’t completed that yet.