In Barrio Yungay, an edgy central Santiago neighborhood, an artist-owned sourdough bakery rubs shoulders with the Chilean city's oldest barbershop and a mini-market with a flickering back light that sells vegetables, dairy products and snacks.
Now the district will be home to a president too, in a powerful sign of changing times in the Andean nation, where anger has risen in recent years over stark inequality and an entrenched ruling elite.
"There are all kinds of people here. Homeless people, people who are well off. There are ordinary people, elegant people. There's a lot of immigration." Boric's team declined to comment on his choice of new home, but the message is clear: making a break from past political leaders many say had become disconnected from the people.Epifanio Jesus, a Cuban migrant, walks past graffiti in 'Yungay' neighbourhood, where Chile's incoming President Gabriel Boric will move to his new residence in Santiago, Chile March 8, 2022. Picture taken March 8, 2022.
Carlos Noriega, 45, owner of the Donde Carlitos mini-market on Boric's new street, said in the last three years local crime has picked up. He said his store was robbed at gunpoint in 2020, a year after violent months-long protests broke out against inequality that many blamed on a constitution dating to the Augusto Pinochet-era dictatorship.
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