Blog 8: Personal Opinions

Hello everyone! In today's blog, I have the possibility to give my opinion about a topic, so I’m going to talk about the social outbreak that began on October 18, 2019, and continues to this day but with much less force than before.

The social outbreak began mainly as an uprising of the people against the neoliberal system that has governed us since the military dictatorship, and that generates extremely unequal conditions for those who live in this country. 

In Chile, basic services that should be public and free are in the hands of private companies, so to access good education, health or pensions you must have a lot of money. This is because, in this country, governs a capitalist and neoliberal model that was forcibly established during the dictatorship, and not only by the military, also by groups such as the Chicago Boys or politicians like Jaime Guzman, who wrote the current constitution. And obviously, with the support and funding of the United States. 

This is why people, in 2019, got tired and said enough to this system. The protests began demanding a radical change in the model, which would include health, education, pensions, women's and sexual dissidents rights. The Piñera’s government with the police forces repressed in an excessive way, shooting at the body of the protesters and leaving some without eyes. Rape and sexual abuse occurred in police stations, and some detainees were found dead.

I think I went overboard, so to finish I will just say that, although we now have the possibility of a constitutional change, I think we have to keep fighting until this system collapses and the powerful fall.