Summary of 'well on the way to eradicating poverty.

This article talks about how poverty in Latin America is one of the biggest threats to democracy, and how in Chile poverty has decreased faster than anywhere else in Latin America. Chile is constantly investing in anti-poverty campaigns, telecommunications and infrastructure. The article also mentions their former president Pinochet and the Marxist government before him led by Salvador Allende. In Chile within 3 years poverty fell from 19.9 down to 12.3 in 2006, and even though there are still 2.2 million people living with less then 90$ a month, it is a great improvement since in other South American countries the poverty line is still up at 40% of the population. Chile is on its way to achieving a eradication of poverty.