Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Sales of electric vehicles are shooting up, but the public chargers that will be required

for them are not. Yet, we ask about a tricky chicken and egg problem. How to build out the

infrastructure buyers will want before those buyers have bought.

And, humans have always longed to soar like birds, but in history shows it's only men

who actually try to do it. There have been many successful attempts and many tragic failures,

and then there are those content merely to sing like birds.

First up, though.

In the streets of Chile's capital Santiago yesterday, hundreds of people celebrated the death

of 99-year-old Lucia Iriáct, the widow of former dictator Agustopinochet. She was widely

hated, believed to have had influence over Pinochet as he oversaw a brutal and deadly regime

that began with a military coup in 1973. Her death comes just a few days before a run-off

presidential election in which one of the candidates, the hard-right José Cast, is a

defender of the Pinochet legacy. His opponent, Gabriel Borich, couldn't be further away

on the political spectrum. It's an election that 30 years into the democracy that bloomed

after Pinochet, reveals just how divided the country remains.

You have two completely different visions for Chile on offer in the election of December

19th.

Analánquez is the economist's Argentina and Chile correspondent.

It's so wide open. Everyone you speak to says this is going to be an election that will

be determined vote by vote. It's the first time since democratization in 1990 that you

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