PATRICE GREANVILLE
[dropcap]F[/dropcap]rom Ecuador to Argentina, from Haiti to Honduras, from Brazil and now Chile, ordinary citizens are mobilising to resist and push back the economic aggression of "Neoliberalism", the naked dictatorship of capital. After more than 30 years of "free marketism" imposed at bayonet point by Pinochet and those "democratic" regimes that followed, Chileans have had enough. They have reached the point of desperation where death is better than living like a serf. Meanwhile, the US media and vassal press in Europe and other countries never tire of praising Chile's "economic miracle", talking about this country being so developed, etc., etc., all of that based on the country's GDP, without ever mentioning that a hefty GDP is useless unless the national wealth is well and fairly distributed, which Chile, profoundly inegalitarian, certainly is not. Obviously, in this wave of legitimate global protests I do not include Hong Kong, a cynical and misguided US engineered color revolution staged by people who hardly understand their own history, and are willing to sell their country's sovereignty to imperialists and colonialists who until recently, historically speaking, saw them and treated them like Untermensch.
Massive Anti-Austerity Protests, Curfew, Repression in Chile
SOURCE: The Real News Network • Eloquent and great images.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/dlqGZZ5bIpE
Oct 21, 2019
Soldiers Patrol Streets of Chile Capital, As Protests Continue
Oct 23, 2019
NOTE: This video is notable for what it shows, and for the description blurb that accompanies it. After all, the VOA is an official organ of propaganda of the United States. Despite that, while the text packs some venom against the protesters, it also admits that Chileans are protesting because, as VOA so tactfully puts it, "they have been left out of the prosperity of Latin America's wealthiest country." Left out, yea. More than 30 years of brutal neoliberalism that has driven 3/4 of the population to near destitution.
London's Chilean Community Protest Piñera's Oppression
Oct 21, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FETh8zafpf0
Chaos in Chile as State of Emergency is Declared
Chile protests: "People are fed up"
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