Authers' Newsletter: When Pensions Fail, People Get Angry
Chile has shown the world that inequality will lead to unrest. The source goes deeper than fuel prices and transport fares.
A complicated phenomenon.
Photographer: PEDRO UGARTE/AFP/Getty Images
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If there’s one thing in this world that unites us all, it’s dislike of being criticized by foreigners. Watching Brexit as an expatriate Briton is, I can assure you, very unpleasant. And Chileans have just had a taste of it. Latin America’s wealthiest country is suddenly in the spotlight after a shocking breakdown in civil order over the last few days. You can read my column responding to these events here. Many in Chile have now read it, either in the original or in various Spanish translations and commentaries, published in Chile and elsewhere. I’ve now had a feast of Chilean reaction. It has been interesting.