Bello: The moderates fight back

摘要

After securing a landslide electoral victory on the most left-wing platform Chile has seen in more than 40 years, Michelle Bachelet has lost no time in implementing her programme. In her first four months in office, the flurry of proposals has included an ambitious tax bill and a complex education reform. One of her coalition's leaders has called for the government to use its legislative majority as a "steamroller"; another wants to deploy it as a "retroexcavadora" (backhoe loader) to demolish Chile's "neoliberal model". So just how radical is her government going to be?