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The pristine white and striking clothing with which Manahi Pakarati received King Felipe VI were a signal, the message that Chile is no longer the country that, as Prince of Asturias, he visited in other presidential assumptions.
Pakarati is the new general director of Ceremonial and Protocol of the Chilean presidency, but she is, above all, the only Rapa Nui diplomat in the Chilean diplomatic service.
Rapa Nui?
Yes, it is how Easter Island is known in the local aboriginal language, a territory that allows Chile to boast of being a country that extends between the Andes, Antarctica and Polynesia.
Pakarati saw on several occasions in two days the head of the Spanish State, who a few hours after arriving in Chile met with Gabriel Boric, since this Friday the new president of the fifth largest economy in Latin America.
The symbolic load of the ancestral dress of the Polynesian diplomat was in tune with what the new president, a former leftist student leader who comes to office at only 36 years old, wants: a different country in which not everything happens in Santiago, the capital, but that it is recognized in its different regions.
And if Felipe González came to power in 1982 at the age of 41 and reversed membership in NATO, for example, Boric also seems to insinuate an amendment to his statements made a few years ago, or months ago.
The Chilean president wants nothing to do with the Bolivarian axis and is emerging as a social democrat.
One, symbolic, was to arrive at the inauguration in Congress, in Valparaíso, in a car driven by a woman.
Another, more powerful, has added the Ministry of Women to the "political committee", as the hard core of the government is known in Chile, those who debate crucial decisions.
The cabinet includes the communist Camila Vallejo, that student leader who in 2011 made Piñera stagger in his first Presidency, as Secretary General of the Government and Minister Spokesperson.
And Maya Fernández Allende, granddaughter of Salvador Allende, the president overthrown in 1973 by Augusto Pinochet to start 17 years of dictatorship, as Defense Minister.
None of these details escaped Felipe VI, who was very well received at Cerro Castillo, the presidential residence in the coastal city of Valparaíso.
«He is very handsome!
And he greeted us all ... », commented a neighbor.
An hour earlier, the King had been the center of attention of the 500 people gathered in Congress for Boric's inauguration ceremony.
Felipe VI arrived last, and late.
"Typical problems with caravans... It is very common," official sources explained.
All the guests were in their seats, and both Boric and Piñera, the outgoing president, were waiting in two rooms of the building.
"Indeed: the King arrived, the door was closed and the ceremony began," said Chilean television, which also did not offer explanations for the delay of the Monarch, who upon arrival greeted all the Latin American presidents present.
Piñera did the same when he entered, visibly moved, while Boric, without a tie, entered the stage directly to start the ceremony, in which he was seen having difficulty controlling his tears.
Yolanda Díaz arrives at the Palacio de la Moneda for a meeting with the outgoing president, Sebastián Piñera.AFP
Spanish companies in Chile, with more than 15,000 million dollars of investments, are awaiting the course of the government, which is seeking a tax pact to finance its social programs, but which did not invite businessmen to the inauguration this Friday.
This in a country already aware that "hard times" are coming economically.
A few kilometers away, some 200 people demonstrated violently, indicating that Boric's first problems will come from the anarchist sector and more to the left.
"Doing politics is riding contradictions," the Spanish Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, said yesterday in an interview in La Tercera, repeating a common phrase by Pablo Iglesias in the early days of Podemos.
Montero studied in Chile in 2009 and 2011, and was part of the delegation led by the King.
She attended the ceremony, like Yolanda Díaz, despite the limitation of attendees due to Covid.
You have to be able to "express your own position and also listen to other people and build together from difference and diversity", added the minister, in an appeal to her own experience of government and what is expected of Boric, who He embraced effusively in an aside from the audience that the new Chilean president held with the King on Thursday.
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