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Some on Chile’s hard left see Russia as an ally against American “hegemony,” but Boric didn’t want Putin in his country.īoric is thirty-six-a year older than the minimum age for a Chilean President-with a stocky build, a round, bearded face, and a mop of brown hair. Chile is the world’s largest producer of copper and its second-largest of lithium China’s supply of batteries and cell phones depends on the trade.īoric had also heard that Vladimir Putin was considering a visit to Argentina, and wondered if he’d want to add Chile to his itinerary. The Chinese Embassy had hand-delivered a letter from Xi Jinping, in which he courteously reminded Boric that the People’s Republic of China was Chile’s biggest trading partner. But, he told me, the summit wasn’t for several months, and “Biden said I didn’t have to decide right away.” The trip would be complicated for Boric he had won office at the head of a left-wing coalition that included Chile’s Communist Party, which tends to regard the United States as an imperialist aggressor. Chile, with its four thousand miles of coastline, is a tactical outpost in Latin America-a region where Biden has been trying, intermittently, to increase his outreach. He felt that he had some catching up to do on geopolitics, since he was already being courted by superpowers.Īfter Boric’s victory, President Joe Biden had called to offer congratulations, and to invite him to a summit of hemispheric leaders in Los Angeles. Their destination was the island where the Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk was marooned in the eighteenth century, helping inspire Daniel Defoe’s “Robinson Crusoe.” Boric planned to swim and fish, and also to read through a pile of books: the Defoe classic, biographies of Chilean Presidents, a history of Eastern Europe by Timothy Snyder. After two months of frenetic activity that followed the election of December 19th, Gabriel Boric, the country’s President-elect, was also planning to take a break.Īt a back-yard barbecue, a few weeks before his inauguration, Boric explained that he and his partner were heading to the Juan Fernández archipelago, four hundred miles off the coast. Many santiaguinos go to the nearby Pacific beaches, or to the chilly lakes in the south. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.įebruary in Santiago, the capital of Chile, is like August in Paris: the end of summer, when everyone who can afford a vacation escapes for a last gasp of freedom.