Just Months Into His Second Stint as President, Chile’s Pinera Is Already Stumbling

Max RadwinOct 4, 2018

President Donald Trump, right, smiles as Chilean president Sebastian Pinera holds up a picture showing the Chilean flag at the center of the U.S. flag, in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, Sept. 28, 2018 (AP photo by Alex Brandon).

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Last week, Chile’s president, Sebastian Pinera, was at the White House for a meeting with President Donald Trump. During a photo-op in the oval office, Pinera held up a printout of the American flag. Outlining one white star and a pair of red and white stripes, he had managed to draw a smaller, Chilean flag inside of it. “Chile is at the heart of the United States,” Pinera explained, with a smile. “And the best proof of this: This is the American flag, and there is a Chilean flag right at the very heart of the US flag.” It was […]

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