Where Are Chile's Student Protesters Now?
Where Are Chile's Student Protesters Now?
By
Brian Winter
Latin America is young – the median age is 30 – but many of its presidents are past retirement age. AQ's editor-in-chief looks for the next generation.
This article is adapted from AQ's print issue on youth in Latin America.
Gabriel Boric’s first day as a congressman was anything but boring.
Age just 28, he showed up with a scraggly beard, a beige trench coat and an open dress shirt with no tie — causing an instant uproar in the most buttoned-up sanctuary of Latin America’s most buttoned-up country. A fellow legislator accused him of violating decorum, and asked the chamber’s president to...
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