Chile in flames

Chile, one of the more unequal countries in the world, is still amidst a large outbreak of protests. Note that this is the place where the Chicago boys (aka libertarians aka the same sickness that has taken apart all democratic institutions worth knowing here in the US) got to create a Constitution that allowed for authoritarian oligarchs and military heads to control the country more than the people do. In other words, it only, just barely, has the facade of democracy. 

What Chile has is a pure neoliberal system (where people like Clinton, but especially the GOP, believe that the market will provide for those needs of the people) from the ground up. When the brutal dictator Pinochet came in, he invited these people from Chicago and other elements of American libertarianism to help him with this Constitution. 
This is something like the world the Kochs would like. (Read Democracy in Chains for more on this)
This ahistorical view claims (though I'm not sure how much they believe this) people want this, they just don't know it. But it has always been implicit that violence will make sure people obey the market (21 dead in Chile. Again, notice how the Times only has Bolivia and Hong Kong on their front page and even on their World subsection...[1]).

It seems that people will be able to rewrite their Constitution. Let's hope that they are able to have some say. It's been a long time coming for them.
Meanwhile there are other protests, but are they legitimate? No. Evo Morales has been pushed out in a coup. Any information about the history of that nation should point people that way. That it was done after fair elections should warn people about how bad the right is (and patient, to be fair) in terms of giving no fucks about overturning elections [2].
That being said, I had mentioned the timing of these protests and the fall of the Berlin wall. Both happened because of a kind of forced austerity. But the Warsaw pact countries fell because of Gorbachev no longer having the will to use force to prevent the protests from going further. As you can see in Chile and other places, some of the violence being used by the right is pretty bad. How far will they go? We'll see. 
For now, let's hope it's a new day in Chile (and not a night in Bolivia). [3]

[1] Ask yourself, why? Why are they so adamant about only showing these two protests over all the others?
[2] Here in the US we have most of our left and right who help push a kind of rightist foreign policy which, especially with austerity of Climate Change, only further destabilize our world.
[3] Random note: the center left # resistance that is claiming Evo Morales is illegitimate in some way are really some of the biggest fools around. This would be like making a big deal about the small time shit Hillary did in the election instead of focusing on Trump's full on grift of America.
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