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Chile's Boric reshuffles cabinet after constitution loss

Chile's President Gabriel Boric, left, says goodbye to Izkia Siches, former minister of the interior, during a ceremony introducing his reshuffled Cabinet, in Santiago, Chile on Sept. 6, 2022. © Luis Hidalgo, AP

Chile's President Gabriel Boric shook up his cabinet Tuesday in an effort to relaunch his government less than 48 hours after he was dealt a resounding blow when citizens overwhelmingly rejected a new progressive constitution he had championed.

Boric, 36, changed the leadership of five ministries in what marked the first cabinet shake-up since he became Chile’s youngest president in March and has since suffered a precipitous plunge in his approval ratings.

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