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BBC OS: 2021/12/20 16:06 GMT: Gabriel Boric wins Chile's presidential election

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2021/12/20 16:06 GMT

2021/12/20 16:06 GMT: Gabriel Boric wins Chile's presidential election

Gabriel Boric wins Chile's presidential election

BBC World Service - BBC OS, Gabriel Boric wins Chile's presidential election

We hear reaction from voters in the country and what they want for the future

We go to Chile, where the leftist candidate Gabriel Boric has won the presidential election to become the country's youngest ever leader. In what was expected to be a tight race, the 35-year-old former protest leader defeated his far-right rival Antonio Kast by more than 10 points. He will now lead a country that has been rocked in recent years by mass protests against inequality and corruption. We speak to our colleague from BBC Mundo and also hear from regular Chileans about their lives and what they want for the future of their country.

A BBC investigation has found that the Myanmar military carried out a series of mass killings of civilians in July that resulted in the deaths of at least 40 men. Eyewitnesses and survivors said that soldiers, some as young as 17, rounded up villagers before separating the men and killing them. We speak to our colleague from BBC Burmese and hear from Burmese people inside and outside the country.

And as the world tires to get on top of the new Omicron variant, our Covid-19 expert Dr Eleanor Murray, assistant professor of epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health, will be looking at the latest coronavirus headlines and answering listener questions.

(Photo: President-elect Gabriel Boric in Santiago, Chile, 19 December 2021. Credit: EPA/Elvis Gonzalez)

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