This is CBSI in the World. I'm John Bachelors.

To Santiago Chile, a conversation between Mariana Stasio Grady and Mr. Cost, the leader

of the Republican Party, the opposition to the new president, Martin, Mr. Gabriel Borich,

and the leftist center politics that have dominated the conversation in Santiago, these

many years since the urban disorder of late 2019. Mary traveled to Santiago and is now

back to comment on what seems to me amateur reader from the outside with that Spanish. As

more than a ray of hope, several rays of hope. Good evening to Mary. Your conversation with

Mr. Cost, he's pointing to a future that is indominated by the leftist authoritarian regimes

of neighboring countries. How so? What does he see?

Well, good evening, John. Jose Antonio Cost has been in politics for more than a decade.

He used to be with another center right party, but in 2019 he and some other, he founded

the Republican Party. So it's a pretty young party. The first thing I asked him was about

the uprising in 2019, because from where I sat, the violence was terrible and then President

Sebastian Pignetta, who was also a center right guy, was incapable of putting it down. But

what followed those days of burning subway cars and sort of happening at the same time was

about 1.2 million people coming to the streets of Santiago and going to the streets of other

cities around the country to protest the center right government. And the narrative was that

they were all up in arms because they were rejecting the free market model that Chile had

used really since the around 1980, 82 after the banking crisis. And that model had made

Chile the envy of the region. But this outpouring of protests seemed to indicate to a lot of

people that the country was saying, no, we don't like this too much inequality, too much

corruption and so forth. And Jose Antonio Coss told me in an interview I did with him in

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