Chile and Latin America are at a historic crossroads. For Chile’s president, Sebastián Piñera, today’s new revolution in knowledge, technology and information will benefit only those countries that embrace it, but could be cruel to those who let it pass them by.

When Chile became the first South American country to join the OECD in 2010, the event was greeted as a seal on years of progress, not to mention hard work. Still, challenges remain, including in the fight against poverty, as Minister of Planning Felipe Kast explains in this interview with the OECD Observer.

Chile has become the 31st member of the OECD this May and the first from South America. The country joins the organisation during a time of uncertainty both globally and at home, as the shock of February’s tragic earthquake still reverberates. Chile’s finance minister, Felipe Larraín, shares some thoughts on that disaster and the country’s recovery programme