Philip Sanders

Bloomberg News editor in Santiago, Chile. Opinions are my own. Retweets are not endorsements.

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Sebastian Pinera, the billionaire who brought Chile’s political right wing out from the shadow of former dictator Augusto Pinochet to win two separate terms as president, died in a helicopter crash in the south of the country.

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Without the funding, how can Chile's government hope push through social reform. Where they go from here is anyone's guess.
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Cancel that shopping trip to Miami, it's Chile where clothing prices keep falling -- according to official figures

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@nncattan All the best Nacha! Saludos desde el cono sur. Hope New York behaves

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It may not feel this way in Chile, and it is all relative, but Chile is beginning to look like a Latam safe haven again.

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Argentina may find itself between a rock and a hard place -- forced to chose between printing money or reprofiling its local currency debt.

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Part of Valparaiso's appeal was that it was edgy, authentic. Now it is just abandoned and crumbling.

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Hilarious!!! An entire rag’s strategy and news values bent to try to get the putrescence that is Dacre’s bum onto the comfy seats in the Lords ….

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Chile's election is as much as battle of generations as it is of economic ideologies.

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People queued patiently for over an hour to vote this morning in Quinta Normal. Everyone wore a face mask. Ejemplar.

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There was no one driving on the protestors to burn the church. No ring leader that I could see. Just seemed to be the result of a city abandoned by security forces to a small group of vandals.

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The Asuncion church wasn't burnt down in a frenzied attack by a horde of anarchists on Sunday, rather it was the result of a leisurely afternoon of vandalism by a dozen or so protesters.

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The Argentine embassy stood untouched near by, people strolling past shouting up jokes to others sitting on the edge of what was once the window to another burnt out building

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Pinera puts UDI in charge of the Interior Ministry as he tries to reimpose order on the ruling coalition and as the country braces for the return of anti-govt protests. Risk of this looking King Canutesque in a few months given the political tide

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Chile is easing the quarantine in the `barrio alto' of Santiago. I understand the logic, but how will that go down in the rest of the city?

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Pinera says he will sign the pension bill tomorrow `given the difficult economic and social situation many families are going through'. Is that an attempt to own it?

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Chile's pension bill gets final congressional approval with a two thirds majority in the Chamber of Deputies, well above the 3/5s required. Now Pinera must decide whether to promulgate a bill he bitterly opposed.

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Chile's Senate passes pension bill. The beginning of the end to a flagship policy that built a capitals market, boosted savings, buttressed the peso, but never did what it was meant to -- pay decent pensions.