Piñera makes a play for the middle class

by Canning House Associate Fellow Andrew Thompson

Every week, Andrew Thompson draws on his great wealth of knowledge and experience of Latin America to bring our audience in-depth insights on economics, political risk, and business in the region.

This week, he assesses the potential impacts and considers the motivations of President Sebastián Piñera's government's new package of economic measures, designed to help the country’s middle class come through the next phases of the COVID-19 pandemic.

These stories are also available on Andrew’s blog site:

La Rambla Research

More recent briefings & intelligence

Rising risks in Argentina

On the evening of 1st September a man approached Vice-President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) outside her home in Buenos Aires, pointing a loaded gun at her head at point-blank range and attempting to pull the trigger. In a context of deepening socio-economic hardship and concerns over governability, risks appear to be rising in Argentina - writes Jill Hedges.

UK-Brazil Conversa 2022: Doing more, doing better

The seventh edition of the UK-Brazil Conversa, an event that brings together figures from UK and Brazilian politics, current affairs, academia, international relations, and the business community, to discuss the most pressing issues of the day in each country, as well as to find common ground and paths for further cooperation between the two countries, was held in June 2022 in Rio de Janeiro.

Piñera makes a play for the middle class