Elisa Loncon, a Mapuche academic, linguist and activist, has just been voted as the president of the constituent assembly for the drafting of Chile's new constitution!
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Elisa Loncon, a Mapuche academic, linguist and activist, has just been voted as the president of the constituent assembly for the drafting of Chile's new constitution!
The Chilean right-wing officially DOESN’T have the ability to veto shit in drafting the new constitution because they didn’t get 1/3 of the constituent seats. So what do they do know?
They try to pass a bill modifying the rules set for the constitutional process behind the people’s back as per usual, trying to make the quota required to veto ¾ (which they do have) instead of 1/3. 🤪
I hate these motherfuckers so much and this attempt better tank OR ELSE…
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This is so infuriating because they’ve been accusing the left of trying to change the rules of the game unjustly at anything they do but now that they lost astronomically they pull this shit.
Keep in mind that the far left in November of 2019 wanted the quota to be 2/5 and it was the right-wing that insisted on 1/3. Why? Because they always had 1/3 of the congress seats so they were confident that they were going to get that during the constituent process too if the Apruebo won.
That’s how they historically blocked ANY attempts to reform the 1980 constitution in any meaningful way and now that they can’t do it anymore they’re throwing a tantrum and playing dirty.
EDIT: I realize that I accidentally said the right-wing had ¾ of the constituent seats (sorry babes, I’m high on pregabaline to treat my pinched nerve at the base of my skull 😭).
I meant to say that while they didn’t achieve 1/3 of the constituent seats, they did achieve ¼ of them and are trying to make the quota to approve proposals on big issues a minimum of ¾ of the total votes, which would grant them the ability to veto whatever they decide they don’t want even if they’re in the minority. That’s what they’ve been doing since the 1990s but with 2/3 minimum instead of ¾.
The Chilean Crisis, 2019
The situation in Chile has scalated quickly and strong, people are mad and they have every right! Our government has been useless and unable to fix structural problems led to us from 1973 Pinochet's coup d'état, where our rights were violated, innocent people were murdered and our natural resources were sold and exploited by massive international companies. About a week ago the Metro fares in Santiago de Chile rised in $30 CLP($0.40 USD approx), this boosted a mass protest were people, specially students, trespassed the gates without paying. The president Sebastián Piñera's first response was to send the official Chilean police (Carabineros de Chile) to the Metro stations. This situation alone drove chilean folks all over the country to start peacefully protesting with pots and pans in the streets against this and other related injustices. Due to this situation the military was sent to the streets as they started to attack, shoot, kill and making people dissapear for no reasons. Sadly the truth about this crisis has been denied by national e international media only broadcasting the chaos and even setting violent scenes up to show the world a fake war state, term used by the President himself in open TV. It's important for us chilean people that people all over the world get to know the real crisis we are facing and that the government doesn't want the world to know. Here's a list of things people in Chile are protesting for:
Mediocre public health service
Ridiculously low pensions for older adults
Better quality of public education
Politicians high wages (10x than the minimum wage)
Police and military brutality and abuse of power
Rise of light bills
Rise of fuel prices
Companies collusion (Retail, drugstores, chicken industry, health centres, diaper companies, toilet paper company, transport companies, supermarkets, etc.)
Army stealing state funds
Resources (drinking water, electricity, minerals, natural protected areas and the Patagonia) sold to private companies
The masses have awaken and we will fight with teeth and claws against the opressive hand of the infamous Chilean government to improve our folks's quality of life as we owe it to the ones who fought for us in the past. This is not a war, this is the beggining of peace.
THIS IS THE SECOND MASSIVE PROTEST IN PERU AND THINGS ARE GETTING WORSE:
- THERE ARE TANKS ON OUR STREETS
- THERE ARE MOUNTED POLICE IN CITIES EVEN THOUGH THEY SAID IT WAS PROHIBITED
- THE POLICE IS NOT ALLOWING PEOPLE TO GO INTO THE TRAIN OR BUSES IF THEY HAVE BANNERS OR ANY KIND OF SIGNAL THAT THEY'RE GOING TO THE PROTEST
- I'VE SEEN AT LEAST TWO VIDEOS OF PEOPLE BEING ARRESTED FOR GLARING AT THE POLICE
- THE EMPLOYEES OF SOME STORES HAVE BEEN ASKED TO HIDE GAS MASK FROM THE COSTUMERS.
WE NEED HELP
SPREAD THE WORD THEY ARE GOING TO KILL US
This is happening right now to our peruvian siblings, please help spread the word!
UPDATE FROM PERU:
- THE POLICE HAS STARTED USING TEAR GAS
- THEY ARE SURROUNDING PROTESTERS SO THEY CAN'T LEAVE
- THE GOVERNMENT HAS ORDERED A BLACKOUT IN THE MAIN PROTEST PLACE
- SOMEHOW THEY MADE SURE THAT THERE WOULDN'T BE PHONE SIGNAL
- THEY'RE CUTTING ENTRANCES TO THE CITY
- THE GOVERNMENT HAS REVOKE THE PRELIMINAR DETENTION OF THE CORRUPT LEADER OF ONE OF THE PARTIES
- BUT TO OUR LAST PRESIDENT IS NOT ALLOWED TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY FOR 18 MONTHS
(Now the last thing is good BUT why do they think that Vizcarra is more likely to leave the country than the other? MAYBE it's because his party had already negociated that with the Usurper)
- I'M IN MY HOUSE IN A RESISENCIAL PART OF MY DISTRICT AND THE HELICOPTERS ARE FLYING WAY TOO LOW
SHARE THIS
LET OUR VOICES BE HEARD
This is happening right now to our peruvian siblings, please help spread the word!
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This explains a bit of the situation. In Perú we are currently being ruled by mafias inside the congress. And they have began their dirty moves and paying favors. The protests have been pacific till the police arrives and the media makes a bigger problem about broken ATMs than power abuse
This isn't about Chile, but please help spread awareness about what's currently happening to our Peruvians siblings!
WARNING: blood, violence, revolution.... ꒰PERÚ TE QUIERO POR ESO TE DEFIENDO!!! 🇵🇪 🇵🇪 🇵🇪꒱
aI don’t usually do this but it is the best moment to spread all that is happening right now in Peru!!! 👀
A summary of all this (if you do not speak Spanish) The Peruvian congress removed the previous president (Martín Vizcarra) for having certain frictions and problems with them (Vizcarra was involved in corruption cases before he was president and because he wanted to remove parliamentary immunity, that is, allow congressmen to be investigated) . To put a new one (Manuel Merino) who does NOT have technical or university studies and it is known that he has 52 complaints against him. To this are also added events from previous and recent years (for example, the fact that Peru has 3 presidents in less than 4 years and that last year the congress was dissolved) that has caused great instability in the country and now with the recent protests. The police have responded violently, launching tear gas canisters amid peaceful protests, taking away the protesters and using “TERNAS” (an undercover police officer or a policeman wearing civilian clothes) to cause disorder.
I’m going to put some links about the marches / demonstrations and a little more here
WARNING: everything is in Spanish, may contain strong images and videos
Golpe de estado en Perú
INFORMATE AQUÍ, lo que debes saber para defender tu posición.
La Rebelión TikTok, explicada
¿Qué está pasando en el Perú?
GUÍA PARA ATAQUES DE PÁNICO EN PROTESTAS
La manifestación más grande de la historia del Perú
¿Sirve o No sirve salir a protestar?
This isn't about Chile, but please help spread awareness about what's happening to our Peruvian siblings!
Apparent serious assault is latest in series of alleged human rights abuses by Carabineros
Less than a month before Chile votes on whether to replace its Pinochet-era constitution, police have brutally repressed demonstrators in the capital, Santiago.
On Friday evening officers of the Carabineros police force used plumes of teargas and high-pressure water jets to disperse protesters congregating in Plaza Italia, where pockets of violence flared amid a heavy police presence.
Videos show a 16-year-old boy being bundled over the railings of a bridge by a police officer. The boy fell into the dirty concrete channel of the Mapocho river, where he lay motionless, face down in the shallow water.
“As the protesters fled, we saw the moment that the officer intercepted [the boy] and threw him from the bridge,” said Pavel Pavelic Jofre, who led a company of volunteers at the protests.
“We managed to get two of our group down to assist him, and after stabilising his condition the fire brigade were able to lift him away from the river to be taken to hospital.”
Addressing the incident in a televised address, General Enrique Monrás, a spokesperson for the Carabineros, did not rule out the force’s responsibility for what had happened, but said that in his opinion, the boy “lost his balance and fell” during an arrest.
He said the force had its own set of videos that absolved it of blame, although he did not say what they showed.
The boy was said to be in a stable condition in the Santa María Clinic, a short distance from where the incident took place.
As images began to filter on to social media, the Carabineros faced renewed pressure to act on a perceived culture of brutality.
Opposition politicians called for General Mario Rozas, the head of the Carabineros, to resign following a string of alleged human rights violations.
Since October last year Chile has been rocked by a wave of mass protests against rampant inequality and a host of systemic injustices. The ensuing police crackdown has been condemned internationally.
Chile’s public prosecutor has said that since last October 8,575 alleged human rights violations have been perpetrated by the Carabineros in the repression of protests, and only 16 police agents have been stood down as a result.
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Human rights violations by the Chilean government have not stopped. We have a criminal state and no international media or ONU talks about it! Today, a cop threw a 17-year-old boy off a bridge during a protest. The kid is now in critical condition
Update on the situation in Chile:
There's been a few protests the last few days, from cyclists trying to ride in peace, cause cyclists' deaths have seriously increased,and some drivers don't like that and up their efforts to hurt said cyclist,
meanwhile cops/military/ultra right keep terrorizing, burning, and killing people in the araucania region,
And of course 18/O is coming up, the plesbicito is coming up, people are doing marches and events in support of the apruebo option
So today,it was the anniversary of the 88 plesbicito where Pinochet was finally deposed.
Between that and the boy in the river, today has been an eventful day.
My town is supposed to be in lockdown, so the cops were hitting random people in the streets, and a bunch of students met up to protest violence, first the cops showed up, then they moved to take the bridge (any protest always takes the bridge it's tradition at this point) and some asshole decided to run one of them over.
So, tonight, the protest have turned into barricades and bonfires as you can see above.
Pretty much all over the country
The cops have no intention of changing. The guy in charge isnt gonna resign
So I dont expect things to calm down any time soon.
United Nations Human Rights - December 13th, 2019. Report on the mass protests and state of emergency in Chile concludes the police and army failed to adhere to international norms and standards, and calls for reforms.
In Chile people are starving.
In Chile there's no economical aid to the people.
In Chile there's still torture.
In Chile there's no justice for an haitian woman killed by police.
In Chile there's no justice for indigenous people.
In Chile there's no money for the poor.
In Chile legislators drink wine while working.
In Chile a minister tries to take of his face mask.
In Chile legistators say "were just talking bullshit" when having a conversation about maternity leave in Quarantine.
In Chile, cops screamed "bro you just killed her" when taking off Fabiola Campillai's eyes with a tear gas bomb. Next they hide the evidence.
In Chile they plan to make people return to school while coronavirus is at its peak.
In Chile the president attends to a funeral with 30 people and open ups a coffin.
In Chile the president goes to buy wine in quarantine.
In Chile, to survive the economical crisis, the government offered a loan.
In Chile, they censure news that might left President Piñera in a bad situation
TW SUSPECTED MURDER, SUICIDE MENTION, STATE VIOLENCE, RACISM, POLICE BRUTALITY
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Two Indigenous Mapuche women - mother and daughter - have been found dead yesterday evening (Aug 7, 2020) in the location of Pailahueque, Ercilla, southern Chile. They were found hanged in their home.
The police and Chilean government is claiming this is a double suicide, however, this is extremely suspicious as this is firstly, a known technique used to silence activists used by the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990) I could not find any sources in English regarding this, but singer Gervasio is an iconic case in which this was used. Furthermore, there have been a renewal if extremely targeted violence against the Mapuche since the nomination of a new vice president (Interior minister, in charge of national security) last week, these incidents started with police protecting racist individuals that attacked Mapuche protesters with sticks and burned down some of their vehicles. You can find more info here & here
The Mapuche people have asked repeatedly in Twitter for allies to spread this information, as the Chilean government under Piñera seems to care more about international image over the opinion of citizens, as was demonstrated after the October protests last year, in which multiple human rights were violated and they have yet to face any consequences from the international community. As so, it's extremely important to visualise each and every human rights violations that are happening within the country to bring awareness, specially within this case as the Mapuche have repeatedly suffered targeted violence and genocide within this country.
[I ask any Mapuche person that happens across this post to add information if they wish, I've done my best to put this in a way that's understandable to foreigners but I know I haven't gone in depth]
People in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Chile are protesting because they have no food. The government, instead of immediately sending over help, decided to once again repress them with teargas and rubber pellets. If you have been following the Chilean protests since October 2019, you'd know the very same government is directly responsible for the mutilation of over 500 eyes from their own citizens.
This is happening today May 18 2020, I'll keep you posted
Mind you, they have no food because we just entered a full lockdown with no immediate help for casual or without contract workers. Additionally, up until now big companies are free to fire anyone or to reduce their pay / ask them to use their unemployment insurance in order to get paid.
You can see a testimony of a protestor here
The police directly impact a protestor via a high pressure water beam. This is forbidden by law, the high pressure can cause people to lose balance and hit their heads on the road
La Victoria, another neighborhood in the south of Santiago, on the Pedro Aguirre Cerda commune, has joined the protests
In response to the police brutality suffered today by protesters, along with the null support offered by the government, the people from Santiago have taken to the streets to initiate a cacerolazo (banging pots together as a form of protest). The official call is at 9 pm, but neighbours from Southern Santiago have already begun protesting
Hello.
I live in El Bosque, the same municipality where the food protests begun.
The particular neighborhood where this happened is very close to mine and I have very close info about what happened.
The local municipal government closed down the street markets recently for non-registered and non essential sellers, causing the flow of income for the people who worked without a license in them (usually very low income, very hard working people) to dry up almost without warning.
The municipality and the local and nearby neighborhoods did their best to try to support the people that lost their source of work, but the municipality has seen the government take away most of the resources they had due to the local government being from an opposition party, and the neighborhoods nearby couldn't give more help when total quarantine was declared (far too late), which dried up most of the income the people in this municipality had.
Santiago is a highly socioeconomically segregated city, and El Bosque is a mostly low income, old age suburban municipality, with very crowded areas and middle to bad infrastructure. This wasnt a big center of protest during the October Awakening, but the people here did participate quite a bit in demonstrations. Now, the people, who had spent the last 2 MONTHS telling the government they needed help, made a demonstration that was very brutally repressed, which sparked several other protests around the city.
Turns out, the economical situation was severely bad, and the media had been hiding it.
The same "oh but they should have protested peacefully" bullshit argument was immediately released by government, but more alarmingly, several figures of the right wing coalition that is in power have said that people should be prosecuted and arrested for demanding help.
Not just that but also there have been several disgusting comments from accommodated people trying to pretend that the hunger was fake and that the protests were politically motivated. Its a textbook example of the same distraction tactics the media and the government is also using in the US rn.
Several political figures have said since February and March that a full lockdown and an emergency program of economical support was necessary, but the current government has refused to apply or take any actions in the latter, and the lockdown was only progressively applied in areas and stages, with the government's actions being too optimistic until a few weeks ago the cases exploded due to the bad management of the crisis. Chile is on the list of countries with the highest rise of cases, but interestingly it has very low deaths. (Though, the government has decided to keep a lot of information secret, which combined with some alarming discoveries such as many corpses of people dead of Covid19 related complications not being marked as Covid19 Deaths in their certificates... making our own conclusions is all we can do in this regard, especially since the minister of Health is a very aggressive mafioso type person who has been criticized many times for many reasons, far too many to list. He's the guy who said that "the virus could mutate into a better person". Literally. Those were his words.)
The governments response was to make several token overtures of support, and give tiny emergency funds that are still swirling around the state bureaucracy, and give out extremely publicized boxes with food supplies to central and crowded areas, in a extremely slow process that barely started a few days ago, with municipalities like ours being apparently last in the list to receive food aid.
The Comunas (communes/municipalities) of south and west santiago are some of the most crowded, poorer and most vulnerable ones of santiago, and the government has been the most scarce around here, with even majors of the same coalition of the government denouncing the abandonment of the government.
Cacerolazos, Demonstrations, Ollas Comunes (Communitary Driven Soup Kitchens) and Protests have flared up in many places in these areas, and its expected that they repeat if the government is still being slow in following the recommendations of experts and keeps refusing to help.
One final thing that needs to be mentioned:
The Cacerolazos are a protest form that started before and during the Dictatorship times. People protested the lack of food by banging on empty pots from the doorstep of their homes and on the streets. They were seen during the October Protests as a way to criticize the economical and social policies of the last decades and are being seen now in a more literal way, which is a very telling thing of the very vulnerable place we are in. The fact that the Ollas Comunes have had to be organized again, is making a lot of people remember the economical crisis of the 80's during the dictatorship.
There arent many online fundraisers to help people here because our online financial services are internally oriented, but if you want to help, telling people what is going on helps a lot. If international media picks up on what's going on here, even if passively, it demolishes the government's narrative of "international praise" that they are using a lot to deflect criticism.
Police use tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters in Santiago's El Bosque district.
19 May 2020
Protesters and police have clashed on the outskirts of the Chilean capital Santiago amid tension over food shortages during lockdown.
Local television showed police using tear gas and water cannon to quell unrest on the streets of El Bosque, where poverty is high.
President Sebastián Piñera, in a televised address after the protests, pledged to get food to those in need.
Chile has more than 46,000 cases of Covid-19 so far, with 478 deaths.
A recent surge in cases prompted the national capital to go under a strict and total lockdown this weekend.
In a separate development on Monday, dozens of members of Chile’s senate and two government ministers went into preventative isolation following recent contact with infected colleagues.
Why were there protests?
Groups of protesters were seen throwing stones and setting fires in parts of the El Bosque neighbourhood.
District mayor Sadi Melo told local radio it was facing a “very complex situation” because of “hunger and lack of work”.
In a statement, local officials said they had distributed about 2,000 aid packages but warned the government they could not meet demand.
President Piñera later pledged his government would provide 2.5 million baskets of food and other essentials over the next week or so.
“We will prioritise the most vulnerable families,” he said, describing the plan as “historic”.
Following the announcement, Santiago Mayor Felipe Guevara tweeted (in Spanish) to encourage residents to follow the rules and stay at home for their own safety.
“I understand the deep anguish of millions of Chileans, thousands are starving,” he wrote, whilst also dismissing controversy over comments he made about the protests on television.
Unrest across Latin America
By Candace Piette, BBC World Service Latin America editor
The Santiago protest is part of a growing pattern of resistance to the lockdowns all over Latin America.
In Brazil, hundreds of people from Sao Paulo’s largest favela marched to the state governor’s palace demanding more support.
In Colombia people have been hanging red cloths outside their homes when they are hungry.
And in El Salvador, people have been banging pots to protest against the lockdown.
Latin American governments are struggling with how to keep their large poor populations in lockdown with few financial resources and weak social systems.
Chile has seen significant social unrest since October 2019 when protests first erupted over a planned increase to metro fares.
Growing anger over low wages, high costs of living and inequality sparked months of unrest, but protests have gradually subsided as Covid-19 spread.
President Piñera has already unveiled stimulus measures to try to ease the economic impact of the pandemic, but critics and opposition groups say his plans do not go far enough.
This neglects the mention of police brutality and how they sent the troops to contain the protests but it’s still informative
Pablo Duggan, Argentinian journalist in national Argentinian TV, speaking on Chile’s awful management of the pandemic, and the social response to it.
Chile has left me stunned. Chile was under-reporting the number of COVID-19 deaths, I have no doubts. Here’s the information.
Through time, we’ll look back on what’s happening in Chile, and it’ll be crystal clear that the official number of deaths they initially reported was absolutely impossible. Either they were lying before, or now they’re cleaning up the numbers… Honestly, I don’t understand. But truly, Chile’s situation is terrible.
See, this is what Chileans are demanding. [Footage of the Entel Tower in Santiago, with the word “hunger” projected onto it] What are they starting to demand? FOOD. Food! Chile is hungry.
Sebastián Piñera’s government isn’t granting enough aid to working class districts. Protests are coming back, the outbreak is back in Chile, due to the peak in deaths and confirmed cases, and hunger.
This is a government that doesn’t count with the trust of the majority of its people. And look at what’s going on. [Footage of a police water cannon shooting at protesters, in plain fucking fall] Hostility is back. What are they saying? That they’re HUNGRY, that they need more help.
And keep in mind, that all this mismanagement of the pandemic, was done for the sake of avoiding hunger [in reference to Chile’s government prioritizing the economy over people’s lives]. Ask THEM. Ask Chileans how that turned out, ask these people who, in the middle of this pandemic, have taken to the streets to protest, FOR FOOD. Food!
Remember, how Chile’s irresponsible health minister Mañalich said before that Argentina was going to suffer through hunger due to approaching the pandemic with a general lockdown, instead of the “smart” partial lockdown Chile’s government was opting for. That they were going to do so much better.
In Chile’s hospitals, they turn out corpses whose official cause of death is different from the real one, which is COVID-19. This is what they say: “When we arrived to receive the bodies, they were marked as positive for PCR.”
My question is, how are they reporting these cases in Chile? Because, quite evidently, there was a change of strategy. At first, many cases of deaths by COVID-19 were only recognized as such postmortem, or they simply weren’t tested, or if they were tested, then no one received notice of it.
We’re getting a lot of feedback since this show’s message questioning Chile’s procedures during the pandemic went viral. That makes me think there was some truth in what we said.
“The word ‘Hunger’ is projected on one of Santiago’s landmark buildings tonight as pockets unrest continue to flare across the capital“
“Yesterday’s silent protest was too much for some people to take, so here is the same building this evening, lit from the ground by giant spotlights to censor the message.”