Chile’s Boric shakes up cabinet after constitution loss

By DANIEL POLITI
Associated Press

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile’s President Gabriel Boric shook up his cabinet 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 six ministries in 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. “I’m changing this cabinet, thinking about our country,” Boric said, qualifying the shake-up as “painful but necessary.”