 "Chilean President-elect Gabriel Boric waves as he announces his cabinet appointments in Santiago, Chile, Friday, Jan. 21, 2022. Boric will be sworn-in as president on March 11. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File)")
Gabriel Boric, who at 36 years old takes office on Friday as Chile's youngest president, has been building towards this moment since childhood. Even as a youth, Boric was a strong public speaker and fell naturally into politics, his younger brother recalled.
"When we were young, people always spoke about some of Gabriel's obvious qualities, such as his rhetoric. My grandparents said, 'This boy is going to be president.' As a joke," Simon Boric, 33, told Reuters.
"But then when he became interested in politics in high school, and then he went off to college and became law school student president, listening
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