Chile Crece

In their last episode before summer vacation, Chile Crece hosts Nicolás Larraín (comedian and commentator) and Willy Díaz (business and communications consultant) cover four main areas: Iván Poduje's confrontation with environmentalists at a conference, the structural problems with Venezuelan crude oil (dense, high-sulfur, hard to refine) confirmed via AI search, the Ángela Vivanco judiciary corruption scandal where investigators found a phone SIM chip at her daughter's house after she claimed robbery, and Chile's energy matrix (roughly 60% renewable, 40% thermoelectric).

Chile Crece host Willy Díaz opens solo with an economics lecture on how the Iran-US oil price shock from March — where Brent rose from $71 to $107 per barrel in a single month — has already been absorbed by 75–79% of Chile's CPI basket, suggesting April inflation may come in lower than feared.

Chile Crece host Willy Díaz opens with a detailed explanation of how Chile's 1984 FUT tax reform drove investment as a percentage of GDP from 8.9% to 27.1% by 2012, and argues that Michelle Bachelet II's 2014 accrual-based reform reversed this, with investment falling to 24.2% by 2025.

Chile Crece hosts Nicolás Larraín and Willy Díaz discuss four main topics on this penultimate episode before summer break: Chilean president-elect José Antonio Kast's 'no gobernaré desde la trinchera' (no-trench governing) pledge at the Foro Económico de América Latina in Panama, praised by centrist journalist Iván Weizmann; the contrast between Boric's refusal to meet Milei and Meloni (ideological) and Kast's willingness to meet Lula; copper hitting $6.40/lb due to US-Iran tensions and Trump's weak-dollar policy; and extended audience banter on Chilean political appointments, Argentine comedian Sebastián Presta, and the Karen Doggenweiler controversy.

Chile Crece hosts Willy Díaz and Nicolás Larraín interview Andrés Ginestar, 29-year-old lawyer-turned-radio host of Café Express on Radio El Conquistador, about his entrepreneurial path and media career.