![]() 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. ![]() February 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. ![]()
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