This is the New World Report. I'm John Batch with Professor Abin Atlas of the US Army

War College. A story alerts me to something different in Chile.

Gabra Barch is the new and very young and not as popular as he was president of Chile.

However, under his administration now the Chilean army has been dispatched to its northern

border with Peru. The explanation is that there has been a large migration over that

border recently. A big flow and I presume the army is needed because the border patrol

was not adequate. The professor, this is first striking that Chile is now moving to close

or limit its border to Peru and then we'll go to Peru to what's driving people out of Peru.

Is this surprise you that Barch turns out to be a pragmatic man who is sometimes on the

left and sometimes not on the left? Well, John, there certainly is a certain irony in

Barch being obliged to take these actions. But first important to note that for Chile,

not unlike the US border challenge, this is something that has gone back for years and

years. And so really since the stability and economic miracle in Chile that was started

by then general, I was to pin a shade but but but continued under the turn to free markets.

As Chile became really one of the wealthiest best governed nations in South America to

its north at the much poorer nations of Peru and in Bolivia had a stream of migration.

And so that northern border is long been an issue of sensitivity and inability to control

it. And of course, in addition, Chile's basically visa policy has long been a matter of controversy,

allowing people to come in on essentially tourist visas and then would would commonly change

those visas to get work permits. And so over the years, there is a sensitivity in Chile

at debate, not unlike in the United States. But in Chile, it was over the number of

Proviens and Bolivians who are coming in. And it was seen that also as you had increasing

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