Chile is a Latin American success story, so why are voters so unhappy?
Chile is a Latin American success story, so why are voters so unhappy? - In Chile, official statistics put the poverty rate at 11.7 percent, or 2 million of the country's 18 million people, with 3 percent of the population suffering extreme poverty . But critics say that the numbers are based on a shopping basket from the 1980s and that the true poverty rate is much higher.