PPD: The government’s foreign policy is like the Titanic, headed for an iceberg

Chile’s foreign policy is heading toward an iceberg like the Titanic, according to Raúl Soto, president of the opposition PPD. He used the comparison while defending a parliamentary questioning of Foreign Minister Francisco Pérez Mackenna.

The proceeding, promoted by the opposition and scheduled for Monday, Sept. 28, does not seek to question the foreign minister personally, Soto said. Rather, he described it as a defense of Chile’s interests and those of Chileans.

Speaking on Cooperativa’s El Primer Café, Soto delivered a sweeping assessment of the government’s foreign-policy management. “I believe we are witnessing the worst management of Chile’s foreign policy since the return to democracy,” he said. “I do not remember a foreign minister so weak and so erratic in his foreign-policy positions.”

Soto cited Javier Milei’s visit to Chile the previous week as an example. He said the Argentine president came, moved around the country and criticized many people, while Chilean authorities did nothing. Soto also said Milei did not sign decrees repealing Argentine domestic rules that, in his view, cast doubt on Chilean sovereignty over the Strait of Magellan.

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I believe we are witnessing the worst management of Chile’s foreign policy since the return to democracy. I do not remember a foreign minister so weak and so erratic in his foreign-policy positions.