Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Chile managed to stand up and regain economic dynamism despite earthquake

In 2010 Sebastian Piñera learned a lesson: "In life there is no time to waste." The Chilean president was learned after an intense year in the Palacio de la Moneda. "We will never forget 2010, began with an election that marked a change of government after 20 years, followed the earthquake of 27 February, coincided with the celebration of our first 200 years of independence, and ended with the accident, Search, find and rescue the miners.

" "A special year." Especially if all the above are added the great numbers of the Chilean economy, which "managed to stand up and regain its dynamism," Piñera explains during a conversation with reporters at the Palacio Real del Pardo in Madrid, where Bush is on an official visit as part of an international tour.

President (Santiago, 1949) ensures that the devastating earthquake a year ago has not changed the purpose of his mandate: "to make Chile a developed country without poverty." According to Piñera, the earthquake only represented a "further difficulty" that prevented him from keeping his campaign promises.

"We have kept our program of government and the Chilean economy has experienced a renaissance, although we faced one of the five worst earthquakes in the history of mankind." And here are the figures: "In the first year of government, we have managed to rebuild half of what the earthquake and tsunami destroyed.

But we have also managed to grow at a rate of 6%, we have created nearly half a million jobs in a country with a workforce of about seven million, and we achieved an increase of 20% investment and export growth 30% "." We are on track, "Pinera says, recalling that" poverty reduction is not an exclusive aim of the coalition, although that is what they have tried to make believe.

"he is referring to the alliance policy that ruled Chile for two decades after the fall of Augusto Pinochet. A domain to which the current president ended just over a year to rehabilitate a historic election right in the Latin American country. "The past is forgotten?" No, do not forget, but we left the division to look into the future, knowing that what unites us is more important than what divides us, "said the president, adding that Chile" learned from their mistakes after a turbulent period "representing an" exception "in the long history of" democratic "country.

Today, Chile has Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with some 50 countries and the strength of its economy with the stability of their institutions will become a model for throughout the region. "My country was the poorest colony of Spain and had to tip out of the pit," Pinera says. "But now we do not want to lecture anyone.

Latin America has rediscovered itself and now has the best chance of his story, because progress has stronger than ever. "The president, who had to abandon his 'empire' economic to avoid institutional conflict of interest, lives its mandate as a "great adventure" as the "great challenge" of a man with "public vocation." You have very ambitious goals they think are impossible to attain.

But with my years I have learned that he does not believe in the impossible is not a realist, and that he does not believe in the unbelievable is not a believer. "

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