12:15am, our absolute clown of a president announced state of emergency. Our liberties have been restricted, this includes our right to go out and riot. This state lasts for 15 days. It is possible that the military force will start roaming the streets. I’m so fucking angry and a little bit scared, they’re known for being trigger happy and overall violent abusers.
This is the first time since the military dictatorship that the state of emergency has been announced over riots. Let that sink in.
OCTOBER 19TH EDIT: THE METROPOLITAN REGION, CHILE IS NOW UNDER CURFEW FROM 22PM TO 7AM, THIS MEANS MILITARY FORCES WILL BE OUT AND WILL ARREST YOU OR WORSE, SHOOT YOU CONSIDERING OUR HISTORY WITH CURFEWS IN DICTATORSHIP PLEASE REBLOG THIS VERSION
The Overthrow of Democratic Chile Part 1 (Salvador Allende)
The 1973 Chilean coup d'état was a watershed event in the history of Chile and the Cold War. On 11 September 1973, the democratically elected President Salvador Allende was overthrown in a coup d'état organised by the Chilean military. A military junta took control of the government, composed of the heads of the Air Force, Navy, Carabineros (police force) and the Army led by General Augusto Pinochet.[1] Pinochet later assumed power and ended Allende’s democratically elected Popular Unity government.[2][3]
During the air raids and ground attacks that preceded the coup, Allende gave his last speech where he vowed to stay in the presidential palace.[4] Direct witness accounts of his death agree that he committed suicide in the presidential palace.[5][6] After the coup Pinochet established a military dictatorship that ruled Chile until 1990 and that was marked by severe human rights violations. A weak insurgence movement against the Pinochet government was maintained inside Chile by elements sympathetic to the former Allende government.
Imagine if the US Congress agreed to make higher education tuition-free and funded it by increasing taxes on corporations. Pure fantasy, right? Well the government of Chilé is doing just that.
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has made overhauling the nation’s education system a key goal of her administration.
“In March 2016 we will start with free higher education now that we have the resources,” said Rodrigo Peñailillo, Chilé’s Minister of Interior in early December following approval of a corporate tax hike that will generate $8.2 billion in new revenue.
First, a little background.
Chilé’s economy looks impressive on paper, boasting the third highest per capita GDPin Latin America, but Chilé also has the highest inequality in the 34-member Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Nowhere is this disparity more apparent than in its schools.
From high school through college, Chilé’s education system is the most expensive in the world. This is a legacy of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, whose reforms dismantled public education and replaced it with a market model that privatized many institutions.
As a result, students can not afford to graduate, and even those who attain degrees seldom earn enough to pay off their debt. Apart from a few elite, selective schools, outcomes are dismal. Chilé’s primary school system ranks 119th of 144 countries. Its higher-education system ranks 91st overall and 117th in math and science.
The reason families pay so much out of pocket is simple: Chilé’s schools receive the least public funding of any of the 34 OECD member nations, according to a report from 2011.
So how did things change?
Chilé’s new direction wasn’t conceived by politicians in government offices. It started with students in the streets. Demonstrations began in 2006 during the Penguin Revolution, so named because of the black and white uniforms worn by students declaring that “education is a human right.” Students achieved minor tangible victories, but their ultimate goal of free education remained elusive.
‘The Fight Against U.S. Imperialism & Chilean Fascism’, Youth Against War And Fascism / Workers World Party, United States, 1974.
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