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miércoles, 30 de octubre de 2019

Sailing in Chaos towards the impossible

@rodrigodelao #opinion #tribuna #ESPAÑOL
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The red October of Chile 2019; The Chilean spring or the October Revolution, as it has been called, marks without a doubt, a before and after in the country's political system. He ignited popular clamor that, along with mobilizations and unleashed violence, unprecedented since democracy recovered (In 1990 after 17 years of a military dictatorship that unraveled the worst of a systematic terrorism by the Chilean state with suffering, torture, disappearance and deaths of people, compatriots; and, from where an economic model is proposed tailored to those who seized power, a breeding ground for the current situation), denote that something was accumulating, like a stifled scream, drowned, who looked for a visceral and violent way out, in the worst way, from where there are countless speculations of who these organized anarchist groups will be able to, clearly, be radicals of the left and right who seek in destabilization and violence cause The fear to find a space. The doctrine of shock. That said, we must overcome the chaos to rebuild and restart. Anger only demonstrates the importance of claiming historical debt with a society that no longer resists against an absurd, abusive, out of context and unequal economic model.
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First of all it is made clear, emphatically, that the codes of violence used are totally condemnable and contrary to the essence or spirit of the protest or social claim of a country in democracy. Codes that must be analyzed, because discontent has a root and is violently expressed by not feeling part of the society built or not having a reliable representativeness to express themselves. There is no sense of belonging when crime, the lumpen is positioned and delivers its message of chaos, of destruction kamikaze due, mainly, because a sort of cystic "lumpen political" has been installed, which has mutated towards a system of political castes rotating in the dominant oligarchy of public policies; plutocratic castes lovers of kleptocracy. Public officials, by the way. Many will have thought that the people servile to the vote, uneducated, incredulous and oblivious to that kind of political class, do not know, do not realize, stirring even more with their arrogance and indolence the candor of the fire of a heart that, desperately, seeks his place for social justice, that his voice be heard and the popular clamor be respected. The voice of the people, essence and spirit of our democracy (Demo = People - Cracy = Power).
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Without a doubt, we live and are part of a milestone in our democratic history. A social process in motion that corresponds to all being able to route. There is an urgent need to be able to channel the energies from the citizens in movement with concrete proposals and organization. However, the incompetence of a government that could not maintain the political management for which it was voted and (forced by legitimate social demands in one of the most unequal countries in the world, with a per capita exceeding US$20K must be clearly established, where 1% receives more than 25% of GDP) decides to decree a state of emergency, breaking the democratic state, free movement and assembly, brutally repressing the state's weapons to compatriots. Weapons of all Chileans. Many have been injured, mutilated, tortured and killed in one of the blackest chapters since memory has been remembered since the recovery of democracy. It also applies, by the way, to Chilean public officials of the armed forces (injured or affected).
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A new Social Pact implies, above all, peace, respect and understanding. We reject violent acts and challenge the government to establish political responsibilities regarding human rights violations. Likewise, we demand an intelligence that provides complex scenarios, as well as investigating, recognizing and judging, transparently, who were responsible, criminals, incendiary looters of the Metro de Santiago and private property.
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Finally, we cannot fail to mention that above all the social problem is an environmental problem, where we still have to discuss how we eliminate the areas of sacrifice, what we do or how we face the existence of children with heavy metals in their blood, talk about high rates of cancer in some cities near polluting production processes, collapsed seas, water hoarding, destruction of glaciers, among many other things.
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We condemn all unjustified acts of violence. It is not the way to deliver the message of social justice and equity. Today, navigating in chaos, we must go to the impossible; and, more than ever, it is essential to dress as Democrats, freedom and push a transversal citizen policy where political signals are inclusive and influential. No repression, no destruction. Less with the state armed forces against their fellow citizens.
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After the storm comes the calm. After the chaos, the new beginning where politicians and citizens must talk, dialogue, looking into each other's eyes to reconstruct a different, joyful, hopeful chapter in our wounded democracy, urgently. The future, our children cannot keep waiting. We cannot, again, fail them too.
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I believe in Chile; and you?
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Rodrigo de la O
Director Vigilante Costero ONG - Waterkeeper Chile

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