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Conservative presidential candidate Sebastián Piñera’s economic proposals range from misguided to erroneous, Finance Minister Andrés Velasco said in an interview published Wednesday in the daily El Mercurio.

Velasco, one of President Michelle Bachelet’s few ministers to have held onto his job since the 2006 inauguration, and regularly the most popular member of the administration aside from Bachelet herself, defended the government’s stimulus plans and criticized Piñera’s plans as either already in place by the government, “factually incorrect” or simply “inexplicable paradoxes.”

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