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‘Chile is back’, President says, urging investment
“After years of deadlock, Chile is back” and “strides towards development”, said that country’s President, José Antonio Kast, emphasizing that it has become safer and more competitive.
A few weeks ago, Chile adopted its most significant economic reform in decades, including a reduction in business tax, a temporary reduction in housing purchase tax, and the unleashing of $17 billion for environmental projects.
“We are taking tangible actions that are changing the very course of Chile and bringing us closer to development,” he underscored, adding: “Choose Chile to invest.”
Turning to Latin America, he said the coming decade “can be ours”, highlighting increased regional cooperation against transnational organized crime and irregular migration.
Describing it as “the continent of the future”, he underlined the need to “give momentum to that change”.
Relations with Peru, Bolivia and Argentina are in fine fettle. Chile is also resuming relations with Venezuela under its new leadership, he said, citing “a historic opportunity” for that country to reconcile with its democratic traditions and millions of Venezuelans abroad who dream of returning home.
“After two decades of tensions, Latin America wants this history to have a happy conclusion,” he said.
“This Assembly cannot remain indifferent to the wars and conflicts that are raging around the world,” he asserted, noting that such open conflicts threaten the stability of many regions.
“Wars must stop, as they not only drain the blood of those who fight them,” he stressed, calling on the United Nations to play a role “with the character and the dynamism that it has not yet shown”.
He delivered a pointed critique of the organization, saying it “has not been part of the solution” to today’s challenges, and noted that the world cannot maintain the world order of 1945 in 2026.
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