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Dec. 19, 2021

35 year old Chilean leftist wins the Runoff election for President.

With 99% of the vote counted in Sunday’s second round of the   Presidential  election, Gabriel Boric, the 35 year old former student leader won the race with 55% of the vote. Pictured taking a selfie with his supporters his 10% lead…

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Dec. 13, 2021

Chile's runoff presidential election turns back the clock. Blogpost preview for Friday's podcast from Santiago.

We lived in Chile in the 1980s while Pinochet was President. Next Sunday this country of 20 million, faces a starkly polarized  choice in a runoff presidential election, the likes of which they haven't seen since the 1970 election that brought …

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June 11, 2021

G7 meets in Cornwall, England June 11-13 to co-ordinate global economic recovery.

The G7 is a group of developed global economies - UK, USA, France, Japan, Germany, Canada and Italy - which will meet 6/11 -13 to co-ordinate global economic policies post Covid pandemic. It is President Biden’s first trip abroad as President …

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May 13, 2021

Canada’s mysterious brain disease.

New Brunswick is one of Canada's 10 provinces , known as the Maritimes, along with Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. It borders the state of Maine to the West and South. The provincial capital is Fredericton and Moncton is another large city in …

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