#chileanprotests

My dad, my uncle and my grandpa were kidnapped and tortured in dictatorship

Until I was 15, my dad had nightmares and woke up screaming and crying.

There’s wounds and humillations he will never be able to forget.

[Note says] Bullet scar.

I can’t put into words the anger and sadness I feel, because today my family has to remember once again.

[TV says] Curfew is declared.

Suffer once again for wanting a fair country. Today is our turn to live it.

Chilean television, besides lying, is wrong, I don’t have fear for the “army forces”, what I have is anger.

Comic by @jayduluth in Instagram

“Violence is not the way”

They said when the turnstiles were broken.

And I agree, that’s violent.

But violent is also the way in which the families of the missing detained don’t know where the bodies of their loved ones are. Violent is the way in which the drought in Petorca had their causes identified in 2014 and the reform made was an incomplete project of the state.

Violent is the way in which Chile is the most unequal country in the OCDE, with a system “pro rich” where the taxes affect the poor severely more. Violent is the way in which the elders of 80 years have the highest suicide rate due to absence of prevention policies focused on the elderly.

Violent is the lack of resources, inputs and lack of dignity in public health. That Quintero’s youth must close the school year due to health problems after episodes of contamination. The sexual abuse of the Church, and the protection that the policy has given to the cases. That Carabineros of Chile confiscate fruit at fairs instead of disarticulating drug trafficking in neighborhoods.

Violent is the way our elders have to work even after their retirement because they can’t live otherwise.

Violent is that the Metro of Santiago cares more about broken swivels that people killing themselves in the train tracks.

PIÑERA AFIRMATE LA PERA, QUE YA SALIÓ A LA CALLE LA HIJA DE LA OBRERA

I experienced this beautiful moment at today protest for women rights 💜 8M Chilean coordinators estimate that 2 million women attended (to the moment, as the protest still goes on)

This opinion is, basically, an explication of everything that’s happening.

[Translation of the video] 

Headline of the News: Mass evasion: Just claims or vandalism?

Reporter: What do you think of evasion?

Her: It’s okay. It’s a legitimate way of protesting. Protests are contemplated in the constitution as a fundamental right.

Reporter: Democracy?

Her: Democracy. What is not good is the vandalism and on that we all agree, but violence is structural and is something bi-directional. When Carabineros of Chile puts a lachrymatory bomb (Lacrimógena) in a Metro station with minors inside, they forget there’s a higher interest of the child. Carabineros of Chile must and has the constitucional duty of guard human rights. 

Chile’s government forgets that a 98% of women pensyoners in the AFP system receive less than 129 pesos monthly. Today they are impulsing a reform, which I’m directing directly to Mister Torrealba, a reform of the pension system that wants people with terminal illnesses to withdraw their pension funds. They forget that social security is a human right and that the right to health is also a human right that must be guaranteed by the State, and, in the meantime they are paid to private clinics to replace the work of the State. They should strengthen public health.

89% of men in Chile who have retired through the AFP system earn less than 130 thousand pesos a month. On the other hand, 70% of workers in Chile earn less than 400 thousand pesos a month and what does that mean? That there is poverty, that there is no access to education.

Education is what will save this country

It can’t be possible that a tuition on Chile’s University, that is a university of the State of Chile, cost the same as a monthly salary. 400 thousand pesos. Medicine cost 600 thousand pesos.

Reporter: Does this mean that a rise in public transport definitely hurts the Chilean pocket?

Her: Logically. If a person spends 50 thousand pesos a month on locomotion, they cannot eat. It is the expense of the supermarket. Today the credit retail cards are supplying issues such as health, such as food. People today are buying things with credit and they are not buying durable things. They are consumable things like food.

So the slowdown that the nation state is doing today, is that President Sebastián Piñera stops excusing himself, stops doing criminal populism. Because that's what he's doing today, criminal populism. Filling us with laws that do not serve us and is not meeting the needs of the nation.

Shooting in Monserrat after it was looted.

This happened around my house. 

“ Patron saint of protestors and street dogs.” 

Cool story & informative tweet

Twitter;   Respectable Lawyer@RespectableLaw·May 31