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Inequality and the center-left of Chile

It is clear that under the governments of the Chilean center-left, the issue of legitimacy of economic inequalities was not particularly questioned. Español

By Kathya Araujo
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Students marched through the main avenue of Santiago de Chile on April 2017, demanding a free, quality, democratic, non-profit public education, as well as rejecting the educational reform project. Mauricio Gomez/NurPhoto. PA IMages. All rights reserved.

This article is part of the series "Persistent inequality: disputing the legacy of the pink tide in Latin America" produced in alliance with the Institute of Latin American Studies and at the Instituite of Sociology of the Freie Universität Berlin.

For twenty-four out of the last twenty-eight years, Chile has had a center-left coalition government. The first twenty years (1990-2010), uninterruptedly, under the name of Coalition of Parties for Democracy.

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