Chile Not Immune

With eyes wide open, and many not bothering to vote, Chileans have taken a clear step backward from the Pinochet-inspired arrangements which allowed Chile to become the:

Country that has the highest per capita income of any Latin American country.

Nations take this sort of retrograde step with some regularity, see for example the election (and reelection) of Obama in the U.S. An Agence France-Presse article at the Global Post website has the Chilean election results.