WTF is wrong with Chile?

[Bugenhagen]

Haha! I have never posted personal identifying information on this website. If I did, please send me a PM with it and I will exit this forum.

You were wrong and the article I posted noted that. Just accept it.

Well we don't want to lose your ahem.. valuable contribution.. (ok at least your are not Treefrog, lutefisk is ok just the first gases from the tin are awful) but... I was searching ET with am external meta search engine and saw what started my chain of clues in a different place.

Don't worry about it, but the similarity to the Swedish chef is striking.

And you proved nothing by cutting and pasting an article. If you want to make a counter argument fine, that is a normal discussion but just pasting and saying I disproved it! is uneducated. Try and prove yourself wrong, that is a good start.

I have to rise with the sun tomorrow so I bid you good night.

 

[lentus]

Had a look.

"This all started after a 3.75 percent fare hike was announced for the public transit system. It was 30 Chilean pesos, less than 5 U.S. cents, but an amount that matters for low-income families who tend to spend between 13 and 28 percent of their budgets on transportation, depending how you calculate it.

Santiago’s Metro system is already one of the most expensive in Latin America, and had seen an increase in fares of almost 100 percent in 12 years. Some workers who start their journeys at dawn to cross the city weren’t pleased with a recent comment by Minister of Economy Juan Andrés Fontaine:“If you wake up earlier, you can have the benefit of the lower fare.”
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It is all relative to your budget and with those figures you can see, haughty remarks like that to get up (several hours early perhaps) for their shift... not a good idea. Easy to take that and turn it into protests by opposition.

So in other words it was quite modest like I said.

 

[Bugenhagen]

So in other words it was quite modest like I said.

Yeah... like you said, sure.

Above inflation increases are just fine.

 

[lentus]

The ‘risk to democracy’ in Chile isn’t from protesters. It’s from Piñera and the 1%

Protest criminalised, direct action equated with terrorism: it’s starting to feel like the bad old days of Pinochet.

24 Oct 2019

“We’re at war against a powerful enemy,” declared President Sebastián Piñera live on Sunday night TV from the Chilean army headquarters. “Democracy not only has the right but the duty to defend itself using all instruments … and the rule of law to fight those who would destroy it.” You may be forgiven for thinking Chilean democracy is besieged by some terrifying force: a foreign army, or even an invader from outer space. Nothing could be further from the truth. Piñera’s statement is doublethink: a lie travelling the world while truth is still putting on its boots.

Piñera then did what they all do – the Trumps, the Bolsonaros, the Johnsons of this world. He stamped his authority

But who is the enemy Piñera has gone to war with? One of his government’s own making – namely, the poorer people of Chile. This is the country that is the ground-zero for the neoliberal economic model now in crisis all over the world. From Canada and the United States to Chile and Argentina, the fire this time in the Americas and elsewhere is being fanned by the few. They’ve benefited the most from an economic model that consists of squeezing the many. And now, having nothing else to lose but their bullshit jobs and half-lives, the dispossessed are rising up like an army.

The Chilean people have been robbed of everything. Health, education, water, transport, all basic services have been privatised. Hope has been privatised. What else is there to do? Protest peacefully? Done that.

More: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/24/democracy-chile-protesters-pinera-pinochet

Direct action. LOL. That sweet communist language.

The Chilean people have been robbed of everything.
^ ha ha ha. Everything, huh? They've had pretty much the best country in LATAM thanks to Pinochet who prevented a full-scale civil war blood bath. Their half-jobs? This is like Bernie bros complaining they can get only get a job at starbucks with their "degree" in Whiteness or Patriarchy. It's simple human envy.