The president of Chile, who will leave office on March 11, is an unusual figure in his political sphere. EL PAÍS spoke with him in three meetings. He will work from the opposition and could run again in four years
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“Democratic politics is not about heroism, but about consistency, responsibility, and a real transformation of people’s living conditions. I can give inflammatory speeches, find antagonists, promise anything, but if the quality of life doesn’t improve, it’s irrelevant.”
"Strangely, in Latin America at least, there were sectors that were unable to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine […] What I saw was that one country was invading another sovereign nation with the intention of seizing its territory, violating international law. And that — regardless of the political affiliation of the current leader of Ukraine and the permanent leader of Russia — was wrong.”
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[Boric’s] outspoken stance against Venezuela and Nicaragua made him a favorite target of Nicolás Maduro’s regime. However, he criticizes Trump’s operation to arrest the Chavista leader: “That a foreign state would attempt to exert direct control over Venezuelan territory, administer the country, and, eventually, as its president [Trump] indicated, continue military operations until imposing a political transition, sets an extremely dangerous precedent for regional and global stability.”
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Gabriel Boric is also citing his press advisor Nicole Vergara: “The people I distrust most are those who never doubt.”