Chile president turns from quake rebuilding to fighting crime, promising more officers, raids

Published July 11, 2010

Chile president turns from quake rebuilding to fighting crime, promising more officers, raids
SANTIAGO, Chile – Riding in a fake funeral procession with a hearse decorated with flower sprays and farewell messages, some 280 police officers slipped into the crowded La Legua slum in plain daylight, a theatrical undercover job that suggests a whole new approach to crime-fighting under Chile’s conservative President Sebastian Pinera.
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