I apologize in advance to begin with a speculation: Perhaps one of the characteristics of the countries that have pioneered the implementation of the neoliberal system in the world is to consign the memory to a second or third plane. One day you walk hand in hand with the Iraqi economic and strategic interests, and a decade after they were invaded.
Chile is one of the most expensive countries in Latin America, which is not perceptible only by tourists. The transport system, health, good education and basic services tax the pockets of Chileans in a manner devoid of acceptable proportions. Imbalance is repeated here only comparable to that in the distribution of wealth. We go into debt, we enter a supermarket full of colors and showcases products endless, we are tempted by all this abundance of supplies, so close at hand, and alienate us. The middle class, who constitute the majority of the population of Chile, regrets 'post' breaking through credit cards and complains of price system and its defense. Government subsidies are a joke because they seem more a pat on the back that substantial aid to compare loans and credits to be taken (housing, university, etc..) Interest rates and the amount of which would increase salaries. However, this is largely a result of looting CHILEAN STATE IS MADE DURING THE DICTATORSHIP.
Opportunists architects of this economic jewel walk quietly, to such a level of chutzpah that venture into politics as if they were risking their personal capital in their own companies for profit. It is as if no one remembered how Hand cast of what belonged to everyone. The Pinera Echenique, Büchi Buc, Saieh Abumohor, Lavin, Errazuriz, Melnick, Selume, Novoa etc., Either from government officials (other ministries, especially) or direct advice coup government, privatized everything they could, selling price of eggs: Endesa, Chilectra, Entel, CORFO, CAP, LAN, Soquimich, Iansa, etc. themselves and then sit on the boards of these companies, literally rotated charges including price fixing and swelling wallets. Some even today, not content, still insist on the benefits of privatization of Codelco. These claims appear years and isapres AFP. The mediocriza health and education costs is transferred to the depleted household budget since the early eighties. In the boards of private universities prolific, to date, are the same characters. Nobody remembers how he stole away with the welfare state and how it suits the large holdings that the ultimate costs of the economic crisis and inflation are transferred to the ordinary citizen.
Any citizen who has consciousness and feel first hand the brutal system imbalance commit a terrible inconsistency in voting for Piñera. Unfortunate and certainly the Concertación governments have lacked the courage (and will) to reverse the looting, it is good to be neoliberal and talk "face to face" with half the globe, sell everything and have the black in macroeconomics. No account yet So at the end of the day Chile will have less of what already is. Since we do not own or our own power or drinking water. It's in the will of the English reserves plunge more natural and Mapuche. Largely middle-class quietism that interprets the current problems as a failure of government of the day, and decides to vote just a representative of those who built this scenario. The vote should be responsible of the current situation, but should be a vote with memory, awareness and understanding of what has happened. It is necessary to learn and not be blinded by political starch smiles that walk on television simpaticonamente even joking, knowing that few people remember their abuse. We must reverse the amnesia. The state should not be a well privatizable capital. It is neither a business nor a metaphysical entity: the state we all are. Do not be fooled, remember and be consistent.
conclude by recommending these days for reading the book highly documented Maria Olivia Monckeberg: The looting of economic groups the Chilean State.
