RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - President Gabriel Boric, who is approaching four months in office, took days ago what is probably the biggest political decision of his government: he ordered the closure of the Codelco smelter, Ventanas – in the Quintero area, in the central zone of Chile–, after new episodes of intoxications to the population. With low popularity and no big projects to show, La Moneda and the new leaders of the state copper company made a complex decision, postponed by different administrations. It is a shift in the environmental policy of Chile, a country that lives from its natural resources . . .
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