president gabriel boric, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. it's an honour to be here with you and on bbc. well, we are delighted to have you as a guest. now, you're here at the eu headquarters for a summit meeting which involves most, if not all, of latin america's leaders. many of those leaders right now are self—described socialists. you also are a leftist, a socialist. but it seems to me there are many ways in which you are somewhat different. would you agree? well, i'm younger! they laugh you'redefinitely younger! but that's not a good thing in itself. we have differences. but first of all, i want to say that i feel really part of latin america and i think that chile should project itself from latin america and not only look away from a region. so i'm really proud of our common history and ourcommon ground. one of the things that we have had some differences is that i strongly believe that there are some advances that we have achieved as humanity that cannot be questioned. and it doesn't matter who is in government — we have to stand up f