11 March 2011

CHILE: President Pinera's First Year... Examined.

AP/ M.HERALD/ E. VERGARA

   President Sebastian Pinera's popularity is currently at 42%...down from October's 63% approval when 33 miners were rescued from 69 days trapped a half-mile deep.
   Worse, 49% now disapprove of  Pinera.
    Critics say he is too impulsive and takes risks more fitting a tycoon... than a political leader.
    Even his own party is wary of his style.
   "He can't keep being a one-man band, because a one-man band means he can't direct a group, and a good government should be more like a symphony," Pinera's own party leader recently commented.