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Camila Vallejo: The Boric government is making steady progress in Chile
CAMILA VALLEJO, spokesperson for Chile’s president’s office, spoke to El Siglo’s Daniela Pizarro Amaya about the government’s policy initiatives so far
THE STRUGGLE BEGINS: (L to R) Camila Vallejo and Constitutional Convention members celebrate, on Tuesday, the approval of the motion to grant devolution to Chiloe and Aconcagua regions
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“I HAVE always told my team that we have to work more so that the people work less,” Camila Vallejo intimates.
A geographer by profession, former president of the Federation of Students of the University of Chile, former MP, a Communist Party militant of many years and now Minister for the Secretariat-General of Government, Vallejo is well prepared for the job at hand.
“Let us not forget that when we took office we inherited a fractured country,” she stresses, “where the cost of living has risen sharply as a result of external and internal factors, with major security challenges, with a vast need for justice, reparation and guarantees of non-sliding back, and in great debt to those who have been left furthest behind.
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