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Chile students' mass fare-dodging expands into city-wide protest
- Thread starter Eriol
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Chile is a country that got a big scar from the Pinochet government, the government introduced lots of terrible politics and people just accepted them even if there were some protests in this 30 years, most of them where with the authorization from the government and died quickly. This month lots of things happened, between the government terrible management of the situation, to the ecuador riots making chilean people realize that we were kinda spineless for this things. Also, this protest has not being organized by any organization or major political figure, it was people just getting tired of all this shit.
The most incredible thing about this is how it wasn't coordinated. People from everywhere were fucking tired of all this shit, from secondary students to old people, and they all joined the cause...
This is an historical day for this country.
Wrong. People actually punished the left by not going to vote. Between Guillier and Beatriz Sanchez, people knew there was a power struggle in the left and the country suffered for it. Plus, you have young left wing politicians telling everyone to abstain voting for Guillier which in turn became support for Piñera.
you're right, it was a mess - weak candidates from the center-left (Guillier barely wanted to be there and Sanchez was completely unproven) and a complete media machine making Piñera the president-elect for years before the election even started only contributed to that.
Still, plenty of people willingly voted for him. After his disastrous first round... they still voted for him. Fucking hell.
More than just fares. The fare was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Yeah, but there's just so much more. I'll cross post this:
It's not just the fares. That was the tipping point.
Electricity will raise 10%
Retirement is controlled by private corporations that generates millions of dollars in private earning, our elders are retiring with less than 190USD A MONTH
In other regions, toxicity created by corporations have polluted the air so much, schools closed their year to protect children. One of the activist's leader was found "suicided" last year.
The fares have raised 60% in 9 years, average income only 40%
DROUGHT is getting to the country, while PRIVATES (including Govt Agriculture Minister) HAS PRIVATE WATER RIGHTS of millions of ml per seconds, and effectively STILL STEAL water from the people, killing their cattle and their economies in the process.
All this while:
OUR PRESIDENT DIDN'T PAY TAXES FOR ONE OF HIS HOUSES FOR 30 YEARS, FOR AN AMMOUNT OF 422.000USD, after being found guilty, paid the maximum ordered by the law: 27.000USD
Those found guilty of this kind of crimes, of MILLIONS of DOLLARS are SENT TO FUCKING ETHICS CLASS. Dodging the transportation fare ($1.17USD) can get you to JAIL
This is just the tip of the iceberg of the problems of the country. People started protesting over fares, but it's really against all the abuse of the Elite Class
This protest have been going for 5 days. Just 5 days. It started as a civil disobedience movement. Cops were sent to suffocate it, it ended like this today.
It starts with "Chi" but it doesn't end with "na". This is supposed to be a Democracy.
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Shocking images from yesterday. Unbelievable in 2019.
