Something to be noted and not mention in the video is that not only was the Chilean miracle not something that benefited the population but it was a total disaster.From 1974-1990 (Pinochet’s rule) gdp per capita stagnated and did not exceed 1974 levels until after he was ousted. Chile experienced two recessions,and unlike most countries were overtime poverty rates(which itself is a flawed statistic) have been decreasing since 1945 actually doubled from 20% extreme poverty to 40% by 1983.So even at the macro economic level Chile was a total disaster under Pinochet.Most of the growth did not start occurring until 1990 after he was ousted thanks to several reforms that undid some of the worse economic blunders of Pinochet.Such as the newly elected democratic government bringing back several top income taxes that would ensure the government budget would be supplied unlike before we’re it was in constant deficit.And this would allow for new programs and infrastructure to be persued by the public sector.Another thing that has to be mentioned is that Allende nationalized copper and it remains nationalized to this day,copper has accounted since then 20% or so of the Chilean economy to this day and was sometimes up to 30% so it always had a stabilizing effect for the rest of the economy.So even after death Allende did more for Chile than Pinochet did in 17 years.
"First leftist government since the coup" - Are you serious?? There have been only two right-wing governments since democracy's comeback (both under Sebastian Piñera). All the others have been center-left or left governments. The video also forgot to mention some facts like Chile was the wealthiest nation in the region by GDP per capita until 2019 (when riots started), or that while it's true that inequality is greater than in other OCDE members, it's stiil under the average in the region and it has been on decline since 1990. Look, if you're going to criticize the actual system that's perfectly fine but at least bring all the facts. This video is just pure proaganda...
@@itookallthenames and roberto0709 here is educating folk that America is a continent and not a country. From Chile all the way to Canada. It is so big that it is commonly referred to as 2 separate continents. South and North America. Just like Eurasia is Europe and Asia.
@@FalconsEye58094 If my knowledge of history is correct, Venezuela was able to pay for the large amount of social welfare programs with revenue from petroleum exports. When oil was expensive (I believe that it was $100USD a barrel at one point.) citizens could rely on the welfare. Unfortunately, the price of oil dropped and I believe that you know where this is going. Venezuela didn't have a backup plan. I can only hope that Chile has a rainy day fund.
twistedyogert you are partially correct, however Venezuela mismanaged its economy incredibly and their president didn’t wanna hear it from people who told him the right way to do things
@@xyonentertainmentproductio4909 Not just South America, Central America as well and all that disruption is was caused the immigration problem that the United States complain about. THEY caused it! And what they have done to Puerto Rico, Hawaii and the Native Nations is swept under the rug too.
@@33162-b And who put that government in? The United States. Did they care about the atrocities that Pinochet was doing in Chile? Absolutely not, they only wanted their agenda to play out and put a puppet dictator to protect their own interest. So when you say "to be fair", make sure to include context.
@@xyonentertainmentproductio4909 lol South America is a shit hole on its own don’t get it twisted. Allende wasn’t no savor. Blaming America even though they’re the ones who fund your country is crazy maybe idk dont be a shit show
Give me a time period when the most powerfull nation did not interfear with other nations internal affairs since nations were invented? (and countries/kingdoms before that)
I just want to add that Chile is the most properous country in south america. Even more prosperous than some EU nations. And is on of the least unequal countries in its continent. Chile has lots of problems, but when you compare to similar coutries or ... to the rest of the world, its very good. Well, I hope it keeps improving and not going back to the level of poor and unequal Brazil and allways-in-crisis Argentina
Venezuela was the second most prosperous, granted it was corrupt. But Chavez fixed that with a healthy dose of socialism. Not the corruption, the prosperity.
The main reason is that he hasn't been able to deliver on his promises. Unfortunately part of this is because he took office right as the pandemic started, and that the majority conservative house and senate have been doing their best to block every single move he and his cabinet have attempted. He's the right person for Chile, but terrible timing my country picked to put him in power. I hope he wins the re-election when he gets a chance; per Chilean law, presidents can only be elected twice, but cannot serve consecutive years; so he can run again in 2028.
@@jorgesepulveda4379he's not a communist... and Allende won the election back then, democratically. The us just did not want a socialist nation, and we got a dictatorship in return. Imagine overthrowing a democratic government and installing a dictatorship because the election did not go the way you wanted. Oh wait, I don't have to imagine, because that has happened multiple times. And an attempted one on January 6th. Incredible job, republicans
CIA has not cared in the least about socialism in Latin America since the fall of USSR. In fact, US is itself is now highly socialistic. Only 30-40% of Chile voted for Allende. US does disapprove of Maduro’s government, which has destroyed Venezuela, but has done very little to oppose Maduro.
As a matter of fact, the level of inequality in Chile has declined since 1990. The Gini coefficient was 57.3 in 1990 and declined to 44.4 by 2019. To be sure, the society needs to be much more equal than it is. But, for 30 years, the trend was in the right direction.
Certainly, the inequality in Chile has declined. Matter of fact, The Chilean institutions, based on the 80's Constitution work in order Neoliberal doctrine of a "subsidiary state". Setting natural conditions for those who have the ingress to success in the nation, while poor only can get into debt to live. The evolution of family's debt and income evolution in families depending their social-economical status are both prove that the trend you think is wrong. Plus, Gini coefficent in Chile is unsuitable in its measurement, because the data is provided by CASEN, an institution that can't really identify 1% richest wealth. It's not my intention to offend, and I don't know if you're chilean like me. But chilean reality is clear once you get here. Also, if you think I'm wrong, I'll be glad to debate.
@@felipepuentes9543 exactly, but socialism will make everyone equal with a geni of 1 because everyone will be now poor like Venezuela. Socialism doest like to use numbers they enter by elections and they don't want to leave like in cuba, sad that people are so dumb to see the true.
@@felipepuentes9543 left pigs can only use statistical tomfoolery to prove their points Always has been Also Pinochet did do nothing wrong wish we could do 🚁 🚹 🌊🌊🌊 here too
socialist do not understand numbers or the truth, only what their envy and resentment want, but as a true chilean, we will restore order to the republic just as we did before
But it was inside a neoliberal system. The changes occur in some areas of the populations life, with compensatory policies, much like in Brazil, where the Lula's government use social spending to fight unequallity, but it just brings momentaneous change, nothing that can resist a economical crisis.
Al Jazeera in Arabic: Islamic fascism is cool and more conservative and despotic than Muhammad himself. Al Jazeera in English: Socialism is cool and super progressive. No hypocrisy here nothing to worry about.
So we're gonna ignore that Pinochet and other "capitalists" were fascists as shown in this video? And ignore that you can be a fascist for BOTH socialism and capitalism?
6:17 That's not Gabriel Boric, but Giorgio Jackson, another important face in the 2011 student movement, friend of Boric and now serving as Ministry in his government.
Families that place value on education should not be forced into public schools with families that reduce the educational experience of their children. Who you surround yourself with will ultimately determine who you become as a person. Free education is a privilege that everyone should enjoy but unfortunately, many ppl treat it as a chore affecting everyone who is forced to share the experience with you. We should have the option to choose the experience we want, children who show commitment and talent should be glorified.
It still blows my mind on why nobody is taking USA to trial for what they did in South America. Literally they brought countries into chaos for their own economical gain and the international community speaks about Ukraine like is the first time in history that something like this is happening.
@@AITreeBranches Its probably the military. America actually passed a law nicknamed the "Hague invasion act" in 2002 (during the Iraq war) which basically said the US could invade the netherlands if the Hague tried to put Americans on trial for war crimes. Now that I think about it, if they didnt constantly destabilize those countries and seed unrest, they wouldn't be able to point to them to scare people everytime they ask for a more socialized fairer economy with more evenly distributed wealth. They do it in the name of greed and the consolidation of capitalist hegemony And after the CIA is done funding coups and igniting civil wars, they'll mercilessly attack and dehumanize the people who flee that same unrest
6:18 LOL, that's not Boric. The guy in the circle is Giorgio Jackson, then president of the UC student council, now the new Secretary General of the Presidency.
Closer to the Western-European kind of Socialism than the Asian kind. But anyhow Chilean society has kept quite politically balanced and civilized since the return of democracy in 1990, and as such we have learnt that moderation and peace-keeping is the most economically successful method of governing for us
@@hubertcumberdale2651 Jesus would be all in for socialism. Early christian communities shared everything with the group. Sounds pretty communist to me ngl lol
Even on TH-cam we find great fantasies about socialism. We are granted this freedom because neither Marx's fantasy came to be and socialism defined as govt. ownership of the MoP...never existed except in communism.
They never will, it would make Al Jazeera look even dumber than they look now lmao, either they keep silent over the current shitshow or they twist it into blaming "Capitalism" and "America" as the culprit somehow lol
Inflation was up by 100s even in 1972. Socialism never works and if it does only for a limited time until people realize they can not work and get the Same benefits as everyone else. The economy of Chile was in the bottom 3 of Latin America or even the world I believe in early 1970s, and today, with their capitalist society since 1975, is in the top 3 of Latin countries. The government was dictator like sure, but only until 1990, and today it is going pretty well.
Chile became the richest country in Latin America through neoliberalism and not just for the rich. It was easily the nicest place to live in latin america for the common person. It had the hughest standard of living and has since been squandering it with socialist policies.
"Chile became the richest country in Latin America through neoliberalism and not just for the rich" Why are you lying? Pinochet's policies drove over 40% of Chile into poverty in less than 3 years while the US subsidized capitalist class rose in power. You Americans are sickening for defending your coups.
@@rappakalja5295 we are talking about now, not then. Even if you talk down about Pinochet, he laid the groundworks of modern Chile economy. Keep crying about your lazy, inefficient ideology 😂
@@sirkermitthefirstoffrogeth9622 "Keep crying about your lazy, inefficient ideology 😂" Champ, your amazing ideology kept Chile's poverty rates in the 40% range for 17 years. How brainwashed do you have to be to think that's a good thing?
I think enshrining a capitalistic system into Chile via its constitution was probably the best thing that they could have ever done. Look at its neighbor Argentina, people there constantly vote leftists into government and its a complete disaster. Pinochet was a brutal dictator but leaning too far into socialism in a country that is not yet high income is a recipe for a catastrophe orders of magnitude worse than Pinochet (i.e Venezuela, Cuba, Argentina). Chile is the least corrupt, most prosperous country in Latin America by a mile, I wouldn't risk that by trying to transform its economic system. There has never been a Latin American country that has shown restraint with Left Wing policies and pursued Social Democracy like in Europe, because nepotism and corruption wins out and makes everyone poorer and less free.
@@PCtutorialKid argentina economy collapse when the US backed fascist took control, cuba has the highest human dev score in region, venezuela economy is back on its track as the peoples slaughtered series of US backed coups... poor examples. Problem with Nazis is that you barely know what you are talking about, ... so go back to school KID, may want go back to doing shitty tutorials.
@@theuselessdrunk ellos son los que se presentaron como los nuevos mesias que van a ser capaces de transformarnos en la copia feliz del eden, y lo unico que han hecho es mandarse error tras error.
Wow the parallels between Chile and the US in present day is insane. I just wish we had the fight in us like they do. We are docile and will willingly give up our rights.
@@LewyGooey3 nope, socialism never worked. Did you forget the millions of people who were killed by the leftism Chinese? I think I can say you never knew about it
@@rafaelsot01 I live in America, I see the failures of capitalism everyday. Record Homelessness, poverty, income inequality, insufficient access to healthcare, and stagnant wages. All this is the richest country in the world.
CHILE ERA EL 11/09/73 EL SEGUNDO PAÍS MÁS POBRE DESPUÉS DE HAITÍ. EL PRESIDENTE CAPITÁN GENERAL DON AUGUSTO PINOCHET UGARTE EL HOMBRE QUE HIZO DE CHILE LA NACIÓN MÁS PRÓSPERA, PUJANTE Y SEGURA. LO MISMO QUE ESTA HACIENDO BUKELE EN EL SALVADOR, OJALA USA NO INTERVENGA Y DEJE QUE SIGAN PROGRESANDO. SI USA NO HUBIESE INTERVENIDO EN CHILE, HOY SERÍAMOS UN PAIS DESARROLLADO.
what makes me really sad about my south american friends is the fact that we all in Latin america tend to forgot our recent history... american interventionism in our countries was real and drowned our efforts to make life better for everyone. Yet it is an almost unnoticed topic nowadays...
Maybe part of it is that there were many people willing to accept or welcome that involvement at various points in time. I wonder what kind of relationship Latin American leaders had behind closed doors with American foreign agents/politicians.
I am Chilean and I come from the future. Two years of this government saw crime grow 400% and immigration out of control. Now we have international organized crime and all levels of government are involved in corruption never seen before. Congratulations on the analysis.
Terrible video, Im chilean and u interviewd only socialist people, u can notice how they probably voted for boric, they change the real story, Kast isn't ''pinochetista'', he has said that many times, his grandfather wasn´t nazi, he was a soldier for the germans during world war 2, he was forced to fight by germany if they didnt kill him. Kast ain´t from the far right party, he´s from the Republican Party which is from the right. 80's constitution from Chile made during Pinochet's governament has made the country grow during the last 40 years, becoming the most developed country in south america and one of the richest in the region. That constitution was even changed during Ricardo Lagos' governament, changing many of the articels of the 80's constitution. You can even watch on youtube interviews of Jose Antonio Kast he has told his familiar story on tv programs many times.
@The Stammering Dunce As in Chile, Boric, Vallejo and Jackson (not mentioned in the video, but a member of the lower house and close ally of President Boric) were student leader of the chilean equivalent of ivy league schools, they all come from a privileged socioeconomic background.
Chile was the testing grounds for the neoliberal system we use today I'm glad they're trying to break off the shackles of neoliberalism I wish them the best
so Chile being a poor country is trying to be socialist and drafting a socio liberal constitution. There are so many things that can go wrong but i hope them well.
He's literally still repressing protests like the previous government, everyone was so naive thinking "oh this time it's gonna work" latin America likes so much to be humiliated and be pathetic is tiresome
They also support Russia's invasion of Ukraine which is ironic and hypocritical. They want the Palestinians to be free but victim blame then Ukranians for fighting to be free.
@@frukola64 Neoliberalism is an economic model based around heavy privatization, few or no social welfare, and low taxes for corporations. Basically, a pro-corporate economic model that solely benefits those who own the means of production.
@@giasifman9050 He saved Chile from communism and the lasting damage to life and civilization that causes. He then gave up his power voluntarily. While I disagree with this it shows great character and that he really cared about his country and people.
@@giasifman9050 How many died? Tell me giasifman, I could just google search but I want you to tell me. Then give me the statistics on how many starved in Zimbabwe, Russia, China. 10's of millions died and the world gave no shits. Maybe they should have been right wing dictatorships that did it and then maybe at least the world would care enough to remember them. Their deaths at the hands of evil men were forgotten, because their regimes weren't the right kind of evil for our academia in the west.
@giasifman Comrade don't listen to these idiots They just returned from their trip around Europe yesterday, what do they understand about oppressed and working people?
First leftist government?, there has been 3 center-left governments, 2 right-wing governments, and 3 socialist governments, and part of his cabinet are members of the communist party. This is the furthest left party that the county has had since the dictatorship. But the issue here is not the government, socialism also has its function in society, the issue is the people working on writing the new constitution, its just sad watching the clowns writing it, as they are complete hypocrites on the same issues that they supposedly are attempting to fix. And they are starting to look everyday more closer to how Venezuela started its decline. Where they are attempted to remove powers of the senate, which represents the different states of the country (which are pourer, so hypocritical again, socialist taking power away from the pour), which just seems a ploy to concentrate power on the capital, which has a much larger number of left wing people than in the rest of the country. Its just a shit show really.
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The actual system gave Chile the best standard of living in south america. Better than eastern EU countries that came out of socialism. As eastern europe advance, chile is turning backwards.
He is responsible for many tortures, missing persons, and death. He worked with a former Nazi officer Paul Shafer to run "Colonia dignedad." Is he still your hero?
I want to clarify Allende was not a good guy whatosever, he armed local leftist miltias and formed a group of "special friends" which would back him entirely in his entire regime, chilean inflation skyrocketed and Allende started mass violence and persecution campaigns against local enterprises and massive expropriation processes of international companies in Chile, with mass lines of food shortages and the chilean economy declining, he was one of the worst presidents latin america ever had, and if he had lasted longer in power I cannot imagine what else the chilean people had to pass through under the reign of a president which was slowly cementing himself into power and making himself an autoritarian one.
@@lodz8666 My parents are Chileans, life under Allende was horrible, food was scarce, inflation almost immeasurable, he took over many private industries (including my Grandfathers copper mine). Look up "banging of the pots".
Haha neo liberalism works. If this is what a dictator achieves imagine what a real neo liberalist would achieve. Socialism is the worst just look at venenzuela north korea and cuba. Students like socialism because they do not have yet handled a real job. Once they start to work they throw socialist ideas down the bin. And love capitalism. These students rallying for price increases. You cannot even protest in communist countries
The worst part is that they portrate Allende as a good person that was "fixing" the country or was some sort of hero, but in reality he just ruined Chile´s economy.
everyone that watches this video know that this was a very left leaning analysis. If it was really impartial it would have showed much more data... Mediocre at best.
@@naifalbaihed1230 and the killings, guerrillas and overall chaos and mass starvation before, and specially during Allende's regime, Mr "Naif Albaihed" surely someone really familiar with Chilean history
the problem is the left wing in America petty screwed up. They behave more like Argentina left wing causing more problems than fixing them. this way country keeps get more divided.
@@spark300c I would say the wing is the issue when you only have 2 choices for the same machine they won’t be much different. US has the least amount of parties participating in elections and honestly they aren’t much different.. only in which wealthy class are in their pockets..a bird has 2 wings but it’s still the same bird and it’s still going one way
Marxism is a political philosophy developed by Prussian (German) philosopher Karl Marx that focuses on class struggle and various ways to ensure equality of outcome for all people. Marxism and Marxian analysis have various schools of thought, but the basic idea is that the ruling class in any nation has historically oppressed the lower classes, and thus social revolution is needed to create a classless, homogeneous society. Marxism teaches that the best system of government is one in which wealth is distributed equally, there is no private property (ownership of productive entities is shared by everyone), and every citizen gives selflessly to the collective. The purported goal of Marxism is a government-run utopia in which the needs of each individual are always provided for. Ideally, the strong work hard, the inventive create technological marvels, the doctors heal, the artists delight the community with beauty, and anyone who is weak or poor or in need can draw on society’s combined resources as their needs demand. When this idealistic model is attempted in the real world, it is called “socialism,” “communism,” “statism,” “liberalism,” or “progressivism,” depending on the degree to which the model is explored and implemented. Thus far, Marxism has never worked in real life-and, without exception, in the places where Marxism has been the governmental model, Christians have been persecuted. That’s because there’s a foundational difference between Marxism and Christianity, a deep divide that cannot be bridged. There are several aspects of Marxism, as a philosophy, that put it at odds with the Christian faith. Here are a few: Marxism is, at heart, an atheistic philosophy with no room for belief in God. Karl Marx himself was clear on this point: “The first requisite of the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion” (“A Criticism of the Hegelian Philosophy of Right,” 1844). Christianity, of course, is rooted in theism and is all about God. In the Marxist model, the state becomes the provider, sustainer, protector, and lawgiver for every citizen; in short, the state is viewed as God. Christians always appeal to a higher authority-the God of the universe-and Marxist governments don’t like the idea of there being any authority higher than themselves. One of the basic tenets of Marxism is that the idea of private property must be abolished. Where Marxism has taken root, land owners see their property confiscated by the state, and private ownership of just about anything is outlawed. In abolishing private property, Marxism directly contradicts several biblical principles. 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Frederick Engels, a close associate of Karl Marx, said that Marx’s greatest insight was that “men must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing before they can pursue politics, science, art, religion and the like” (“Speech at the Grave of Karl Marx,” Highgate Cemetery, London. March 17, 1883, transcribed by Mike Lepore). In other words, Marxism seeks to meet the needs of man and posits that, until those needs are met, man is incapable of any aspirations higher than an animal-like existence. Jesus taught, “Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? . . . Seek first [God’s] kingdom and his righteousness” (Matthew 6:26, 33). Marx taught, “Seek first man’s kingdom and the stuff of this world.” Jesus’ words are the antithesis of communism and Marxism, and it’s one reason why Karl Marx reviled Christianity. The utopia that Marxism seeks to develop is earthly and man-made; Christians look to the Lord Jesus to establish a heavenly, perfect kingdom some day. Believers understand that, given man’s sinful nature, there is no perfect system in this world. Greed and abuse of power and selfishness and laziness will taint even the purest motives. Some people attempt to combine Christianity with Marxist philosophy. Their attempts may be well-meaning, but they are impractical. The Puritans in the New World tried communal living for a while. When the Plymouth Colony was founded, there was no private property, and all food was distributed equally amongst all, regardless of one’s job (or work ethic). But that system, lacking any incentive to hard work, was soon abandoned as a complete failure. See “Of Plymouth Plantation” by Plymouth Colony Governor William Bradford for the full story. Attempting to combine Christianity with Marxism also ignores their widely divergent views on sin, God, equality, responsibility, and the value of human life. Of course, some people point to Acts 2:44-45 as proof that Christianity is compatible with communism: “All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need.” Two things must be said here: first, this passage, as with much of Acts, is , not ; that is, this passage contains no command for the church to function this way; it is simply a description of what the early church in Jerusalem did to meet some unique and urgent needs. There is no indication that such extensive sharing was ever copied by other New Testament churches. Second, the communal arrangements in Acts were completely and motivated by the love of Christ. Any attempt to apply this to , secular (godless) communism really makes no sense. When Frederick Engels heard that some Christians were using Acts 2 to promote socialism, he wrote against melding his philosophy with Christianity: “These good people are not the best Christians, although they style themselves so; because if they were, they would know the bible better, and find that, if some few passages of the bible may be favourable to Communism, the general spirit of its doctrines is, nevertheless, totally opposed to it” (“Progress of Social Reform on the Continent,” in , 3rd Series, Nos. 19, Nov. 4, 1843, transcribed by Andy Blunden). According to Engles, the Bible and Marxism are “totally opposed.” In short, the Bible promotes freedom and personal responsibility, and neither of those concepts lasts long under Marxism. There’s a reason why, in Marxist states such as Communist China and Vietnam and the old Soviet Union, Christians are always persecuted-the ideas espoused by Marxism are antithetical to the teachings of Jesus Christ. The differences are irreconcilable.
DO NOT BE FOOLED! Ever heard of the term "Captains of Industry" (in the West), well, that terminology is NOT different in meaning and definition, to other terms that are utilized in other economies to describe Government Sponsored Investors in it's strategic economic sectors---not EVERY American can invest directly in the defense industry, foreigners less so. There are also other strategic sectors that the 'American Dream', cannot apply without Government Clearances or say so. In Russia they call their Government Sponsored captains "Oligarchs", and they are very closely tethered to the Kremlin---in China they are called, nothing, but when they operate outside of China we refer to them as "State sponsored entities", even though they act and behave like private corporations, however, they report to the CCP... We often pretend that Capitalism unlike Socialism or Communism has nothing to do with the Government, but it's blatantly obvious that behind EVERY Corporation, the true power behind it is the Government money that it shells for, specifically on international commerce.... The Wests war against the Russian Oligarchs for the Kremlin's invasion of the Ukraine is testament as to who own's much of the wealth behind the oligarchy's corporations.... In consideration to the above inference, we can also begin to view and understand Western Corporations --- and question, if truly the Western govt's hold hidden sway in those strategic Fossil Fuel corporations, who calls the shots, and what intentions do they hold in-regards to Climate Change?
this made me cry but not for the right reasons. I'll try to keep it as short as i can. This all started way before Allende, chile had increasing socialist ideas for years, and they were cemented during Allende's government. His government wasn't nice, there was poverty and a shortage of food. The coup happened, and it was 20 years of torture. Once democracy is regained (not by the socialist parties btw, they wanted a bloody socialist revolution), Chile adopted more centrist ideas, because it was the union between parties that allowed democracy to return. Through the years since, chile has kept the neoliberalism system, and centrist governments (kinda), and improvement was seen. But the parties have become greedy and more extremist (also, populism), and the neoliberalism system is way more aggressive too, leading to incredible growth in the last 10 years. The problem is that the economy of the country has grown, but the quality of life has not improved at the same rate (be it known that things are way better, but not as good as were reported to be). A lot of social demands build over the years, and they exploded on 2019, the constitution was an agreement made as an excuse to shut up the people and stop the protesters, as the main goal was never to remake the constitution. But is a great opportunity, if not for the fact that a lot of parties use it to further their own ideas, and also the fact that the people building the constitution are NOT experts on constitution rights, so its a difficult task. That being said, the constitution was almost certainty going to be approved no matter the government, the threat of protests and political unrest being far too big to take the risk. Boric presidency is then a puppeteering show to keep the people calm and let those behind him do as they please. The way he came to power was because all the parties took their backing off the only candidate that could have won against him, Sebastian sitchel, a centrist. And they did that because Sitchel refused to agree to their demands (he said that a particular law in motion was stupid, therefore making his party look dumb). So the right united behind kast who is a nutjob, and the center and left behind boric, let it be known that everyone knew kast was going to lose, he was a dictatorship apologist. So the voting became socialism vs dictatorship. I dont know if Boric will do a good job, its too soon to say, and i recognize that this is a great opportunity for the country. But i wont allow people to change the way this all came to be, to further a narrative. this is not a story of the good socialist vs the evil of neoliberalism. This is just another story in which the domineering class manipulating the commoners to think there is change (boric is from a well off family with ties to politics).
This, this video shows things as if the socialist political side of Chile is a noble movement with no flaws, however they are also guilty of having extremist views that dont look for a common ground but rather foccus on their own interests, antagonizing anyone who disagrees wtih them
As a chilean is obvious that is a superficial view from a foreigner, There is a huge problem with the new constitution being too ambigous with law. And like making it simple, the constitution divides two types of people. Chilean and indigineeous people, making the mapuche more important as people than the chileans, It would be interesting you to analyse that situation.
Look, as a Chilean myself and admittedly I don't read most of the news of the constitutional process because I know scandals and stuff will continue to happen, so it will be much useful to read the final draft, read different expert takes on it and then to make a judgment, if this constitution will be beneficial or not, and what my vote will be. Now, because of that, I don't know precisely what have been pass or not, besides catching some broad headlines on newspapers. But let me tell you what I know, because a group of people have more explicit consideration on the law, just one way to put it, it often just means to that group to be treated with the same level of respect that the rest of the population always enjoyed. It means that often because laws or/and policy, the group of people is not treated the same, even thou laws may not say explicitly to discriminate certain groups(sometimes outright says it) but the result is basically the same. This is seen clearly on the laws and policies, that go from explicit to implicit on more of a century, on the case of sexism or racism on the US and other countries. So the most effective method to protect and help this groups, is to make explicit laws to first guarantee their basic rights and second help them to get on the same level as the rest, because there are plenty of studies that demonstrate poorly economic situations from past generations, specifically product of State policies, will significantly affect the wealth of the present generation and future generation. So, governments need to have active action, the laws aren't meant to have certain groups more privileges than the rest, it's meant to give that group a fair shot to catch up. Again, I don't know exactly what have been pass to the final draft of the Constitution, I think I remember the creation of new institutions like a Native Trial, which I would be inclined to agree, but all depend how is written. Other thing super important, it's how the transition laws will be written. Anyways, I'm happy to continue discuss the topy if you want to, like if you want the papers to back up my claims, it shouldn't take me long to to find them again, or if you have some proof that contradicts some of my points I'd be very interested on looking into it. Ah, and of course we can talk in Spanish. Saludos.
hahahah i am chilean, and this video, is a joke, totally blinded. The video is celebrating that socialism is being implemented in the middle of the year 2022 and is being replaced by neoliberalism. Really?. And it omits many things: like the fact that only 30% vote in the conventional elections, that 1% accumulates 25% of the wealth, not 50%, I don't know where they got that figure from,hat it has been the neoliberals who have advanced the most in the rights of the lgbti, in fact, it was the government of piñera (of the center right) that approved gay marriage and adoption, etc... Neoliberalism is not to blame for all the problems that exist in Chile, it is a cultural issue that permeates all of Latin America, that is why we are not yet a developed country, but we are much better off thanks to neoliberalism, which says so much that we must eliminate it and replace it with socialism.
I'm a chilean, so far i can tell this government is going terrible, the crimes are everyday things, inflation it's another thing, kast is what Chile really needs.
@@personwhoplaysgamesforfun7985 immigration is another problem, mainly in the north, some of the inmigrants break through the border and in Chile they main stuff is drugs or crimes
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Something to be noted and not mention in the video is that not only was the Chilean miracle not something that benefited the population but it was a total disaster.From 1974-1990 (Pinochet’s rule) gdp per capita stagnated and did not exceed 1974 levels until after he was ousted. Chile experienced two recessions,and unlike most countries were overtime poverty rates(which itself is a flawed statistic) have been decreasing since 1945 actually doubled from 20% extreme poverty to 40% by 1983.So even at the macro economic level Chile was a total disaster under Pinochet.Most of the growth did not start occurring until 1990 after he was ousted thanks to several reforms that undid some of the worse economic blunders of Pinochet.Such as the newly elected democratic government bringing back several top income taxes that would ensure the government budget would be supplied unlike before we’re it was in constant deficit.And this would allow for new programs and infrastructure to be persued by the public sector.Another thing that has to be mentioned is that Allende nationalized copper and it remains nationalized to this day,copper has accounted since then 20% or so of the Chilean economy to this day and was sometimes up to 30% so it always had a stabilizing effect for the rest of the economy.So even after death Allende did more for Chile than Pinochet did in 17 years.
Thanks for your vídeo!
This video is pure unadulterated BS
"Fifty years ago, they were overthrown, imprisoned and even killed" And the problem with killing commies is?
"First leftist government since the coup" - Are you serious?? There have been only two right-wing governments since democracy's comeback (both under Sebastian Piñera). All the others have been center-left or left governments. The video also forgot to mention some facts like Chile was the wealthiest nation in the region by GDP per capita until 2019 (when riots started), or that while it's true that inequality is greater than in other OCDE members, it's stiil under the average in the region and it has been on decline since 1990. Look, if you're going to criticize the actual system that's perfectly fine but at least bring all the facts. This video is just pure proaganda...
"Looks like Chile needs some freedom." - America.
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of America.
What are talking about?
Given that lithium is the new oil and Chile has a fair amount of it, the freedom probably is coming sooner rather than later...
@@roberto-qy2ys he was using sarcasm
@@itookallthenames and
roberto0709 here is educating folk that America is a continent and not a country. From Chile all the way to Canada. It is so big that it is commonly referred to as 2 separate continents. South and North America. Just like Eurasia is Europe and Asia.
They don’t have oil so no lol
This is sadly what the Arab spring wanted to achieve. Happy for Chile but I wish the same for the middle east.
Hoping this can be widespread across Latin America, with Venezuela being a cautionary tale
Isn't it funny the arab spring occurred in countries the US would have loved a regime change, but not in USA puppet countries?
@@FalconsEye58094 If my knowledge of history is correct, Venezuela was able to pay for the large amount of social welfare programs with revenue from petroleum exports. When oil was expensive (I believe that it was $100USD a barrel at one point.) citizens could rely on the welfare. Unfortunately, the price of oil dropped and I believe that you know where this is going.
Venezuela didn't have a backup plan. I can only hope that Chile has a rainy day fund.
twistedyogert you are partially correct, however Venezuela mismanaged its economy incredibly and their president didn’t wanna hear it from people who told him the right way to do things
Most people in Middle east and North Africa are extremely conservatives. They can't achieve Revolutions when you believed in the Old establishment.
Finally someone who mentioned Operation Condor! All the unrest in Latin America, thanks USA 🙄
Indeed like I bet south American could be rich if the US didn't intervene into them
@@xyonentertainmentproductio4909 Not just South America, Central America as well and all that disruption is was caused the immigration problem that the United States complain about. THEY caused it! And what they have done to Puerto Rico, Hawaii and the Native Nations is swept under the rug too.
yes but US imperialism tends to prop up these oligarchies
@@33162-b And who put that government in? The United States. Did they care about the atrocities that Pinochet was doing in Chile? Absolutely not, they only wanted their agenda to play out and put a puppet dictator to protect their own interest. So when you say "to be fair", make sure to include context.
@@xyonentertainmentproductio4909 lol South America is a shit hole on its own don’t get it twisted. Allende wasn’t no savor. Blaming America even though they’re the ones who fund your country is crazy maybe idk dont be a shit show
i love the part when nixon yelled "it''s americaning time" and overthrew the chile government
Good
Ok, that was funny. Although Kissinger would be more accurate.
Why is the US in every country interfearing in other countries internal affairs?
One simple reason Apple Suck..................$$$$$$$$.!!
Because every strong country does. If you reject to do that, you lose influences, sometimes in favour of much worst regime.
I still don’t know how we ended up in Ukraine…
Give me a time period when the most powerfull nation did not interfear with other nations internal affairs since nations were invented? (and countries/kingdoms before that)
"DEMOCRACY!!!!!!!"
I just want to add that Chile is the most properous country in south america. Even more prosperous than some EU nations. And is on of the least unequal countries in its continent.
Chile has lots of problems, but when you compare to similar coutries or ... to the rest of the world, its very good.
Well, I hope it keeps improving and not going back to the level of poor and unequal Brazil and allways-in-crisis Argentina
Venezuela was the second most prosperous, granted it was corrupt. But Chavez fixed that with a healthy dose of socialism. Not the corruption, the prosperity.
Not for much longer if Socialism has anything to do with it.
Talk about the lack of unequality with the mapuches, maybe you can convince them...
You should look our news, the country and the goverment is already in shambles
Oh the Socialists will fix Chile's prosperity dont worry. Its never failed to fix that problem in any country as far as I know.
This video aged like milk
no
Gabriel boric has fallen out of favor in Chile. He's like biden where initially he's popular only to drop in popularity
The main reason is that he hasn't been able to deliver on his promises. Unfortunately part of this is because he took office right as the pandemic started, and that the majority conservative house and senate have been doing their best to block every single move he and his cabinet have attempted.
He's the right person for Chile, but terrible timing my country picked to put him in power. I hope he wins the re-election when he gets a chance; per Chilean law, presidents can only be elected twice, but cannot serve consecutive years; so he can run again in 2028.
@@FoxSullivanno he won't , he is a filthy comunist liar , he only has a Mentality of destruction . He is a traitor like Allende
@@FoxSullivan He took office in March 11th 2022, at that time the Pandemic was already ending and people were already leaving the masks behind
@@jorgesepulveda4379he's not a communist... and Allende won the election back then, democratically. The us just did not want a socialist nation, and we got a dictatorship in return. Imagine overthrowing a democratic government and installing a dictatorship because the election did not go the way you wanted.
Oh wait, I don't have to imagine, because that has happened multiple times. And an attempted one on January 6th. Incredible job, republicans
@@olekatoska1901 I agree!
Everyday this video ages worse. Shouldn’t have had such a premature celebration huh?
The CIA must be panicking.
They're also plotting
They chiliin
Plotting to make the same mistakes........all over.!!!!
Not very bright......ducky.!!!!
Only this time, they're more distracted on Russia-Ukraine conflict that's why Chile remains unharmed by the CIA yet.
CIA has not cared in the least about socialism in Latin America since the fall of USSR. In fact, US is itself is now highly socialistic. Only 30-40% of Chile voted for Allende. US does disapprove of Maduro’s government, which has destroyed Venezuela, but has done very little to oppose Maduro.
As a matter of fact, the level of inequality in Chile has declined since 1990. The Gini coefficient was 57.3 in 1990 and declined to 44.4 by 2019. To be sure, the society needs to be much more equal than it is. But, for 30 years, the trend was in the right direction.
Certainly, the inequality in Chile has declined. Matter of fact, The Chilean institutions, based on the 80's Constitution work in order Neoliberal doctrine of a "subsidiary state". Setting natural conditions for those who have the ingress to success in the nation, while poor only can get into debt to live. The evolution of family's debt and income evolution in families depending their social-economical status are both prove that the trend you think is wrong. Plus, Gini coefficent in Chile is unsuitable in its measurement, because the data is provided by CASEN, an institution that can't really identify 1% richest wealth.
It's not my intention to offend, and I don't know if you're chilean like me. But chilean reality is clear once you get here. Also, if you think I'm wrong, I'll be glad to debate.
@@felipepuentes9543 exactly, but socialism will make everyone equal with a geni of 1 because everyone will be now poor like Venezuela.
Socialism doest like to use numbers they enter by elections and they don't want to leave like in cuba, sad that people are so dumb to see the true.
@@felipepuentes9543 left pigs can only use statistical tomfoolery to prove their points
Always has been
Also Pinochet did do nothing wrong wish we could do
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socialist do not understand numbers or the truth, only what their envy and resentment want, but as a true chilean, we will restore order to the republic just as we did before
But it was inside a neoliberal system. The changes occur in some areas of the populations life, with compensatory policies, much like in Brazil, where the Lula's government use social spending to fight unequallity, but it just brings momentaneous change, nothing that can resist a economical crisis.
Al Jazeera in Arabic: Islamic fascism is cool and more conservative and despotic than Muhammad himself.
Al Jazeera in English: Socialism is cool and super progressive.
No hypocrisy here nothing to worry about.
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It's not hypocrisy, it's a plan.
hit the nail on this one
So we're gonna ignore that Pinochet and other "capitalists" were fascists as shown in this video? And ignore that you can be a fascist for BOTH socialism and capitalism?
6:17 That's not Gabriel Boric, but Giorgio Jackson, another important face in the 2011 student movement, friend of Boric and now serving as Ministry in his government.
Un imbécil, vamos.
se equivocaron brigido
Es que en ese tiempo Jackson tenía pelo
They do look similar
Praying for Chile that their hegemonic neighbour to the North doesn't pull of another evil deed.
Northern neighbor? Peru?
@@slurpii4669 Good Ol' 'Murica. Hopefully the US won't feel the need to pull off another CIA "intervention" tactic in Chile.
@@slurpii4669 America, unless that was sarcasm in which case I've whooshed myself
@@wastucar8127 nah he was talking about ecuador
You know the United States is going to meddle. smh.
Would love to see a video on your statement "like how charter schools decimated public education in the US"
I second that !
It's fairly straightforward: public funds are diverted from public schools to often for-profit, poorly regulated private schools
@@Samuel-wb8uo wait till you learn about what they do with public school funds..
Families that place value on education should not be forced into public schools with families that reduce the educational experience of their children. Who you surround yourself with will ultimately determine who you become as a person. Free education is a privilege that everyone should enjoy but unfortunately, many ppl treat it as a chore affecting everyone who is forced to share the experience with you. We should have the option to choose the experience we want, children who show commitment and talent should be glorified.
Such BS. A charter school IS PUBLIC. They just have a charter with some additional rules they can make.
A total disaster, Boric fell short to lead Chile. Country is going down.
Hopefully the CIA will leave Chile alone
It still blows my mind on why nobody is taking USA to trial for what they did in South America. Literally they brought countries into chaos for their own economical gain and the international community speaks about Ukraine like is the first time in history that something like this is happening.
@@AITreeBranches Its probably the military. America actually passed a law nicknamed the "Hague invasion act" in 2002 (during the Iraq war) which basically said the US could invade the netherlands if the Hague tried to put Americans on trial for war crimes.
Now that I think about it, if they didnt constantly destabilize those countries and seed unrest, they wouldn't be able to point to them to scare people everytime they ask for a more socialized fairer economy with more evenly distributed wealth. They do it in the name of greed and the consolidation of capitalist hegemony
And after the CIA is done funding coups and igniting civil wars, they'll mercilessly attack and dehumanize the people who flee that same unrest
That's just wishful thinking.
China is taking over Chile,
They're leftist nowadays.
Haha Boric is the most unpopular and pathetic """leader""' Chile has ever had. Time has proven Pinochet right.
Lol cope
6:18 LOL, that's not Boric. The guy in the circle is Giorgio Jackson, then president of the UC student council, now the new Secretary General of the Presidency.
Jfjzbsbsb me dió mucha risa cuando lo vi
He’s Boris Jackson
@@PanConQueso001 and the other one is Giorgio Boric B)
@@PanConQueso001 Michael Jackson
s a Taiwanese living in Chile pass 5 years I am an chilean now but I don't know that chile is socialist!
Closer to the Western-European kind of Socialism than the Asian kind. But anyhow Chilean society has kept quite politically balanced and civilized since the return of democracy in 1990, and as such we have learnt that moderation and peace-keeping is the most economically successful method of governing for us
God bless the Chilean people.
Why? For being a bunch of idiots to vote in a communist?
funny you say that, because leftism isn't really a fan of religion
@@mariadavis3797 Red baiter.
@@hubertcumberdale2651 Jesus would be all in for socialism. Early christian communities shared everything with the group. Sounds pretty communist to me ngl lol
@@pablopereyra7126 Jesus probably wouldn't approve of the 100 million deaths wrought by communism in the 20th century. Great gaslighting though.
Even on TH-cam we find great fantasies about socialism. We are granted this freedom because neither Marx's fantasy came to be and socialism defined as govt. ownership of the MoP...never existed except in communism.
The constitution didn’t pass.
Hmm…
Maybe…
You didn’t actually represent what is going on in Chile? Just a thought.
I hope Chile have great future ahead.
@@frukola64 Captialist privatized living standards has failed Chile.
@@King_Ancalagon Boric will do worse
@@kongshvalmagyar4984 Stay mad, lmao!
@@CapitanNaufrago cope and seeth.
@@King_Ancalagon Ok brother, I am not in Chile. Come back to me when it all goes to shit :) 👍
Make another video on how chile is today, because no one wants Boric 😂
They never will, it would make Al Jazeera look even dumber than they look now lmao, either they keep silent over the current shitshow or they twist it into blaming "Capitalism" and "America" as the culprit somehow lol
Inflation was up by 100s even in 1972. Socialism never works and if it does only for a limited time until people realize they can not work and get the Same benefits as everyone else. The economy of Chile was in the bottom 3 of Latin America or even the world I believe in early 1970s, and today, with their capitalist society since 1975, is in the top 3 of Latin countries. The government was dictator like sure, but only until 1990, and today it is going pretty well.
No shit Inflation will be up when the US puts a complete blockade on you
@@hex2637Inflation was up by 1000% in 1973. That has nothing to do with blockades.
spoiler alert: Chile will be the tomb of socialism once again
Socialism worked until America intervened in chile
Chile became the richest country in Latin America through neoliberalism and not just for the rich. It was easily the nicest place to live in latin america for the common person. It had the hughest standard of living and has since been squandering it with socialist policies.
"Chile became the richest country in Latin America through neoliberalism and not just for the rich"
Why are you lying? Pinochet's policies drove over 40% of Chile into poverty in less than 3 years while the US subsidized capitalist class rose in power. You Americans are sickening for defending your coups.
@@rappakalja5295 we are talking about now, not then. Even if you talk down about Pinochet, he laid the groundworks of modern Chile economy. Keep crying about your lazy, inefficient ideology 😂
@@sirkermitthefirstoffrogeth9622 "Keep crying about your lazy, inefficient ideology 😂"
Champ, your amazing ideology kept Chile's poverty rates in the 40% range for 17 years. How brainwashed do you have to be to think that's a good thing?
a 36 year old socialist running a large country.... absolutely nothing can go wrong lmao
Absolutely EVERYTHING will go wrong
I think enshrining a capitalistic system into Chile via its constitution was probably the best thing that they could have ever done. Look at its neighbor Argentina, people there constantly vote leftists into government and its a complete disaster. Pinochet was a brutal dictator but leaning too far into socialism in a country that is not yet high income is a recipe for a catastrophe orders of magnitude worse than Pinochet (i.e Venezuela, Cuba, Argentina).
Chile is the least corrupt, most prosperous country in Latin America by a mile, I wouldn't risk that by trying to transform its economic system. There has never been a Latin American country that has shown restraint with Left Wing policies and pursued Social Democracy like in Europe, because nepotism and corruption wins out and makes everyone poorer and less free.
smooth brain take
@@nickiiminajj9148 No it’s pretty practical. Wanting rapid change under a guy who is no better than the previous government will lead to disaster.
You are mixing socialism with corruption. You could mix capitalism with corruption too (Colombia for instance)
Which also doesn't work.
@@OP4K works better than Venezuela, Argentina and Cuba. But obviously corruption ruins everything but corruption plus socialism is the worst….
@@PCtutorialKid argentina economy collapse when the US backed fascist took control, cuba has the highest human dev score in region, venezuela economy is back on its track as the peoples slaughtered series of US backed coups... poor examples. Problem with Nazis is that you barely know what you are talking about, ... so go back to school KID, may want go back to doing shitty tutorials.
Plot Twist: Boric is doing worst than former presidents.
Si seguimos asi dudo que termine su gobierno
yeah, why didn't he fix all of our problems in his first month in office? such a disgrace
@@theuselessdrunk ellos son los que se presentaron como los nuevos mesias que van a ser capaces de transformarnos en la copia feliz del eden, y lo unico que han hecho es mandarse error tras error.
@@theuselessdrunk no one expected from them something like that. Only, at least, not making it all even worse like right now lol
Plot twist, it is too soon to say.
Viva Chile
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Well, this video aged like milk....
Chile is destroyed
Wow the parallels between Chile and the US in present day is insane. I just wish we had the fight in us like they do. We are docile and will willingly give up our rights.
Dude, they have nothing. I'm latino and SOCIALISM SUCKS.
@@rafaelsot01 So does Capitalism
@@LewyGooey3 nope, socialism never worked. Did you forget the millions of people who were killed by the leftism Chinese? I think I can say you never knew about it
@@rafaelsot01 I live in America, I see the failures of capitalism everyday. Record Homelessness, poverty, income inequality, insufficient access to healthcare, and stagnant wages. All this is the richest country in the world.
@@LewyGooey3 Wonder what made it the richest.....?
Chile needs another Pinochet.
lol those dreams didn’t work
CHILE ERA EL 11/09/73 EL SEGUNDO PAÍS MÁS POBRE DESPUÉS DE HAITÍ. EL PRESIDENTE CAPITÁN GENERAL DON AUGUSTO PINOCHET UGARTE EL HOMBRE QUE HIZO DE CHILE LA NACIÓN MÁS PRÓSPERA, PUJANTE Y SEGURA. LO MISMO QUE ESTA HACIENDO BUKELE EN EL SALVADOR, OJALA USA NO INTERVENGA Y DEJE QUE SIGAN PROGRESANDO. SI USA NO HUBIESE INTERVENIDO EN CHILE, HOY SERÍAMOS UN PAIS DESARROLLADO.
what makes me really sad about my south american friends is the fact that we all in Latin america tend to forgot our recent history... american interventionism in our countries was real and drowned our efforts to make life better for everyone. Yet it is an almost unnoticed topic nowadays...
Maybe you shouldn't have invited communists to our backyard
Interesting fact but the us actually has an history of anti capitalist
I'm with you
Maybe part of it is that there were many people willing to accept or welcome that involvement at various points in time. I wonder what kind of relationship Latin American leaders had behind closed doors with American foreign agents/politicians.
Zurdos asquerosos, son un monton de resentidos llenos de odio, vayanse al paraiso de cuba y quedense allá zánganos basura.
I came here to check the new comments and it didn't disappoint
I am Chilean and I come from the future. Two years of this government saw crime grow 400% and immigration out of control. Now we have international organized crime and all levels of government are involved in corruption never seen before. Congratulations on the analysis.
Terrible video, Im chilean and u interviewd only socialist people, u can notice how they probably voted for boric, they change the real story, Kast isn't ''pinochetista'', he has said that many times, his grandfather wasn´t nazi, he was a soldier for the germans during world war 2, he was forced to fight by germany if they didnt kill him. Kast ain´t from the far right party, he´s from the Republican Party which is from the right. 80's constitution from Chile made during Pinochet's governament has made the country grow during the last 40 years, becoming the most developed country in south america and one of the richest in the region. That constitution was even changed during Ricardo Lagos' governament, changing many of the articels of the 80's constitution. You can even watch on youtube interviews of Jose Antonio Kast he has told his familiar story on tv programs many times.
Gano el RECHAZO y fue HERMOSO
This is so important. I remember hearning about this movement during the Occupy Wallstreet movement.
He kinda looks like El Professor from La Casa De Papel
Yeah he does omg
Soon they will find out that tax money is needed to finance those social spending. :-)
Intellectuals using the poor and the vulnerable it's sickening.
NO wn, NO, la historia de Chile no parte el 73', por la chucha.
I'd love to see a student from harvard,stanford, and all ivy league univ in US doing like this, overthrow a corrupt govt'. Maybe its impossible.
@The Stammering Dunce exactamente!! Plus in USA the religion obsession and anti Intelectualism is a cancer impossible to overcome.
@The Stammering Dunce As in Chile, Boric, Vallejo and Jackson (not mentioned in the video, but a member of the lower house and close ally of President Boric) were student leader of the chilean equivalent of ivy league schools, they all come from a privileged socioeconomic background.
@The Stammering Dunce most of them are leftists, though.
They arent doing it so great, the support for boric's goverment already crumbled into a 20%
@The Stammering Dunce The Liberals are in the LP. Rich college kids are leftist statists.
The actually lost now, they got their asses served on a platter by the whole country.
Chile was the testing grounds for the neoliberal system we use today I'm glad they're trying to break off the shackles of neoliberalism I wish them the best
Just to remember that Chile is one of the 5 most prosperous countries south of the equator.
Dont worry this new experiment will also fail
How?
@@Duck-wc9de it doesn't matter, i'd rather have a poor communist country than a rich capitalist country
@@NBrioDaZueraRules guess u haven't been to Cuba
The argentinization of Chile, and Mexico, and Colombia, it worked so well in Cuba and Venezuela that its now being exported.
argentina is a right wing capitalist country and has always been, stop blaming the failures of your system on socialism
i'm from cuba and my country is perfect and easily the best country in all of the americas, and venezuela is the best in soth america
@@NBrioDaZueraRulesVenezuela is the best in South America?😂 This is delusional. Argentina is Socialist especially Kirchenerism.
Oopsie whoopsies, looks like we made a fucky wucky
6:19 is Giorgio Jackson, not Boric, but also in the government now.
so Chile being a poor country is trying to be socialist and drafting a socio liberal constitution. There are so many things that can go wrong but i hope them well.
Chile is not a poor country bruh
@@theboi8813 chile is not rich enough to be socialist.
Venezuela is a failed experience and the main demonstration is the 6 million Venezuelans in diaspora. - Gabriel boric.
He's literally still repressing protests like the previous government, everyone was so naive thinking "oh this time it's gonna work" latin America likes so much to be humiliated and be pathetic is tiresome
Im offended but i agree, im still offended
@@slurpii4669 x2
You failed to mention that these kids are also very pro Palestinians, and against the Israeli occupation.
Dude u cant call ur self a socialist and not support Palestinas freedoom.
Most Chileans are pro Palestinian, We have the largest Palestinian decedents population anywhere in the world.
@@DETTO33 you'd be surprised about german socialists then
They also support Russia's invasion of Ukraine which is ironic and hypocritical.
They want the Palestinians to be free but victim blame then Ukranians for fighting to be free.
@@DETTO33 what about the Islamic fascism in Middle East and South asia? Do the socialists support that as well?
Chile would sound like a great place to live if it weren't for the neoliberal economics still being an issue over there.
@@frukola64 Where have you been for the past 50 years? Neoliberalism has been the dominant economic model across the world for the past half century.
@@dave_riots don’t mind him, i bet he's a “pubertarian”
@@frukola64 Neoliberalism is an economic model based around heavy privatization, few or no social welfare, and low taxes for corporations. Basically, a pro-corporate economic model that solely benefits those who own the means of production.
@@dave_riots and to hell, with everyone else,...........right David.!!!!
Chile is a great place to live if you can afford it, the problem comes when you can't keep paying.
I hope they don’t do the same mistakes that led to economic collapse before and 200% inflation.
The mistake of being blockaded by the US lol
Boric is NOT a Socialist
Exactly
This is trash journalism.
Pinochet was a great man
From what aspect
@@giasifman9050 He saved Chile from communism and the lasting damage to life and civilization that causes. He then gave up his power voluntarily. While I disagree with this it shows great character and that he really cared about his country and people.
@@Prometheus7272 the people starved .From your sayings anyone can understand you know nothing about our history
@@giasifman9050 How many died? Tell me giasifman, I could just google search but I want you to tell me. Then give me the statistics on how many starved in Zimbabwe, Russia, China. 10's of millions died and the world gave no shits. Maybe they should have been right wing dictatorships that did it and then maybe at least the world would care enough to remember them. Their deaths at the hands of evil men were forgotten, because their regimes weren't the right kind of evil for our academia in the west.
@giasifman Comrade don't listen to these idiots
They just returned from their trip around Europe yesterday, what do they understand about oppressed and working people?
First leftist government?, there has been 3 center-left governments, 2 right-wing governments, and 3 socialist governments, and part of his cabinet are members of the communist party. This is the furthest left party that the county has had since the dictatorship.
But the issue here is not the government, socialism also has its function in society, the issue is the people working on writing the new constitution, its just sad watching the clowns writing it, as they are complete hypocrites on the same issues that they supposedly are attempting to fix.
And they are starting to look everyday more closer to how Venezuela started its decline. Where they are attempted to remove powers of the senate, which represents the different states of the country (which are pourer, so hypocritical again, socialist taking power away from the pour), which just seems a ploy to concentrate power on the capital, which has a much larger number of left wing people than in the rest of the country.
Its just a shit show really.
Great, my tea got cold writing this...
Cope
You are right, the constitution being drafted is an absolute joke.
This aged well 😅. We are way worse than 2 years ago in every single indicator.
If Croatian guy got elected as president of Chile, does that mean Croatia won the Croatia - Chilean Hydrophillic war?
having a Croatian family background is normal in Chile, specially in Magallanes and the North, we are all Chileans
The Chilean economic miracle is officially dead.
socialism will fix it
@@NBrioDaZueraRules Socialism killed it.
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Will end up like Venezuela
No, you're fearmongering. You can not stop us
good
He will soon be taken down from power
Im happy for Chile, I wish them the best
I wish to leave Chile…
@@benjaminperezvalenzuela7730 ur not the fist one wants to leave his country after us intervine
The actual system gave Chile the best standard of living in south america.
Better than eastern EU countries that came out of socialism.
As eastern europe advance, chile is turning backwards.
@@omaryousifkamal4290 The coup was the best thing that could happen to allende
Socialism sucks but with “progressive” politics it death by a thousand cuts.
Chile better not turn out like Bolivia or Venezuela.
lol maybe...
We are not Bolivia or Venezuela , get yourself an education before talk nonsenses
@@bodymotionchile Venezuela wasn't Venezuela, before it became Venezuela.
Bolivia's government has done a lot of good
@@ef888 lol
Lula will do the same in brazil soon!
Lula is corrupt
Like the last time right?
Yes, he will destroy Brazil's economy in a few months.
@@otavianiluciano7397 how?
@@otavianiluciano7397 the facist in charge now is already doing that
Several things on this video are so biased and just wrong from a historic point.
"Are You Winning s̶o̶n̶ socialistoid?"
Viva Chile !!! Viva la Libertad !!!
Easy to see the monster in Russia. Far harder to see the monster in America.
Pinochet is my hero
He is responsible for many tortures, missing persons, and death. He worked with a former Nazi officer Paul Shafer to run "Colonia dignedad." Is he still your hero?
I want to clarify Allende was not a good guy whatosever, he armed local leftist miltias and formed a group of "special friends" which would back him entirely in his entire regime, chilean inflation skyrocketed and Allende started mass violence and persecution campaigns against local enterprises and massive expropriation processes of international companies in Chile, with mass lines of food shortages and the chilean economy declining, he was one of the worst presidents latin america ever had, and if he had lasted longer in power I cannot imagine what else the chilean people had to pass through under the reign of a president which was slowly cementing himself into power and making himself an autoritarian one.
you forgot to mention that Allende was a Nazi
Even if he was the worst president of the world nothing justifies a coup d'etat and kill thousands of civilians .
As a Chilean, this video is heavily biased.
how?
@@lodz8666 My parents are Chileans, life under Allende was horrible, food was scarce, inflation almost immeasurable, he took over many private industries (including my Grandfathers copper mine). Look up "banging of the pots".
@@huevon951 también conocido como la primera vez que los cuicos agarraron ollas y sartenes
Yeah..."chilean" more like the descendant of some Chicago boy...
@@gabrielamora6265 lol
Reject the sociaslist constitution
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Congratulations Chile! I hope the Filipino youth will also have their Chilean moment.
It won't be soon tho. Obvious naman sa recent eleksyon 😬
60% disapprovement
Haha neo liberalism works. If this is what a dictator achieves imagine what a real neo liberalist would achieve. Socialism is the worst just look at venenzuela north korea and cuba. Students like socialism because they do not have yet handled a real job. Once they start to work they throw socialist ideas down the bin. And love capitalism. These students rallying for price increases. You cannot even protest in communist countries
@@mousecrazy5146 31m even more disappointment
Manggagawa Naman soon
"Socialism is based" -PragerU
@Lina Roa yes, because "based" is a shitty slang and only 4channers use it
I'm from Chile. You are wrong about everything and should re-assess your beliefs -
The worst part is that they portrate Allende as a good person that was "fixing" the country or was some sort of hero, but in reality he just ruined Chile´s economy.
@@ismaelvelasquez5181 they are playing 1st world revolutionary.
De acuerdo, son unos ciegos
@@kitten7500 es lamentable
everyone that watches this video know that this was a very left leaning analysis. If it was really impartial it would have showed much more data... Mediocre at best.
Totally. The Dictatorship was misrepresented here. They should have shown the killing.
@@naifalbaihed1230 and the killings, guerrillas and overall chaos and mass starvation before, and specially during Allende's regime, Mr "Naif Albaihed" surely someone really familiar with Chilean history
Now Chile will fall. Great......
I hope as hard as I can that Chile's story will have a good ending. It's starting to look like it will.
That’s so sad, Chile was doing so good, why did they have to give it up, and destroy there country 😢
Yep, and history deniers are cheering on Communists. Insanity.
American influence
@@Meowblivion the nation of money
@@Meowblivion so it’s money influence
yes! they destroyed all city's
What a great achievement by the people of Chile. I hope that since they modeled the US model we aren’t far from this in the US!
Socialism will take Chile to shit
@@colorwithme194 well them being the US testing ground took them there already and is taking the US there next…
This is achievable movement indonesian students did that in 1998 to overthrown 30 year dictatorship president.
the problem is the left wing in America petty screwed up. They behave more like Argentina left wing causing more problems than fixing them. this way country keeps get more divided.
@@spark300c I would say the wing is the issue when you only have 2 choices for the same machine they won’t be much different. US has the least amount of parties participating in elections and honestly they aren’t much different.. only in which wealthy class are in their pockets..a bird has 2 wings but it’s still the same bird and it’s still going one way
Don't know how the election of the first left leaning government in Chile since Salvador Allende passed me by, good on them
Marxism is a political philosophy developed by Prussian (German) philosopher Karl Marx that focuses on class struggle and various ways to ensure equality of outcome for all people. Marxism and Marxian analysis have various schools of thought, but the basic idea is that the ruling class in any nation has historically oppressed the lower classes, and thus social revolution is needed to create a classless, homogeneous society. Marxism teaches that the best system of government is one in which wealth is distributed equally, there is no private property (ownership of productive entities is shared by everyone), and every citizen gives selflessly to the collective. The purported goal of Marxism is a government-run utopia in which the needs of each individual are always provided for. Ideally, the strong work hard, the inventive create technological marvels, the doctors heal, the artists delight the community with beauty, and anyone who is weak or poor or in need can draw on society’s combined resources as their needs demand. When this idealistic model is attempted in the real world, it is called “socialism,” “communism,” “statism,” “liberalism,” or “progressivism,” depending on the degree to which the model is explored and implemented.
Thus far, Marxism has never worked in real life-and, without exception, in the places where Marxism has been the governmental model, Christians have been persecuted. That’s because there’s a foundational difference between Marxism and Christianity, a deep divide that cannot be bridged. There are several aspects of Marxism, as a philosophy, that put it at odds with the Christian faith. Here are a few:
Marxism is, at heart, an atheistic philosophy with no room for belief in God. Karl Marx himself was clear on this point: “The first requisite of the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion” (“A Criticism of the Hegelian Philosophy of Right,” 1844). Christianity, of course, is rooted in theism and is all about God. In the Marxist model, the state becomes the provider, sustainer, protector, and lawgiver for every citizen; in short, the state is viewed as God. Christians always appeal to a higher authority-the God of the universe-and Marxist governments don’t like the idea of there being any authority higher than themselves.
One of the basic tenets of Marxism is that the idea of private property must be abolished. Where Marxism has taken root, land owners see their property confiscated by the state, and private ownership of just about anything is outlawed. In abolishing private property, Marxism directly contradicts several biblical principles. The Bible assumes the existence of private property and issues commands to respect it: injunctions such as “You shall not steal” (Deuteronomy 5:19) are meaningless without private property. The Bible honors work and teaches that individuals are responsible to support themselves: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat” (2 Thessalonians 3:10). The redistribution of wealth mandated by Marxism destroys accountability and the biblical work ethic. Jesus’ parable in Matthew 25:14-30 clearly teaches our responsibility to serve God with our (private) resources. There is no way to reconcile Marxism with the parable of the talents.
Marxism is ultimately about material things; Christianity is ultimately about spiritual things. Frederick Engels, a close associate of Karl Marx, said that Marx’s greatest insight was that “men must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing before they can pursue politics, science, art, religion and the like” (“Speech at the Grave of Karl Marx,” Highgate Cemetery, London. March 17, 1883, transcribed by Mike Lepore). In other words, Marxism seeks to meet the needs of man and posits that, until those needs are met, man is incapable of any aspirations higher than an animal-like existence. Jesus taught, “Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? . . . Seek first [God’s] kingdom and his righteousness” (Matthew 6:26, 33). Marx taught, “Seek first man’s kingdom and the stuff of this world.” Jesus’ words are the antithesis of communism and Marxism, and it’s one reason why Karl Marx reviled Christianity.
The utopia that Marxism seeks to develop is earthly and man-made; Christians look to the Lord Jesus to establish a heavenly, perfect kingdom some day. Believers understand that, given man’s sinful nature, there is no perfect system in this world. Greed and abuse of power and selfishness and laziness will taint even the purest motives.
Some people attempt to combine Christianity with Marxist philosophy. Their attempts may be well-meaning, but they are impractical. The Puritans in the New World tried communal living for a while. When the Plymouth Colony was founded, there was no private property, and all food was distributed equally amongst all, regardless of one’s job (or work ethic). But that system, lacking any incentive to hard work, was soon abandoned as a complete failure. See “Of Plymouth Plantation” by Plymouth Colony Governor William Bradford for the full story.
Attempting to combine Christianity with Marxism also ignores their widely divergent views on sin, God, equality, responsibility, and the value of human life. Of course, some people point to Acts 2:44-45 as proof that Christianity is compatible with communism: “All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need.” Two things must be said here: first, this passage, as with much of Acts, is , not ; that is, this passage contains no command for the church to function this way; it is simply a description of what the early church in Jerusalem did to meet some unique and urgent needs. There is no indication that such extensive sharing was ever copied by other New Testament churches. Second, the communal arrangements in Acts were completely and motivated by the love of Christ. Any attempt to apply this to , secular (godless) communism really makes no sense.
When Frederick Engels heard that some Christians were using Acts 2 to promote socialism, he wrote against melding his philosophy with Christianity: “These good people are not the best Christians, although they style themselves so; because if they were, they would know the bible better, and find that, if some few passages of the bible may be favourable to Communism, the general spirit of its doctrines is, nevertheless, totally opposed to it” (“Progress of Social Reform on the Continent,” in , 3rd Series, Nos. 19, Nov. 4, 1843, transcribed by Andy Blunden). According to Engles, the Bible and Marxism are “totally opposed.”
In short, the Bible promotes freedom and personal responsibility, and neither of those concepts lasts long under Marxism. There’s a reason why, in Marxist states such as Communist China and Vietnam and the old Soviet Union, Christians are always persecuted-the ideas espoused by Marxism are antithetical to the teachings of Jesus Christ. The differences are irreconcilable.
DO NOT BE FOOLED! Ever heard of the term "Captains of Industry" (in the West), well, that terminology is NOT different in meaning and definition, to other terms that are utilized in other economies to describe Government Sponsored Investors in it's strategic economic sectors---not EVERY American can invest directly in the defense industry, foreigners less so. There are also other strategic sectors that the 'American Dream', cannot apply without Government Clearances or say so. In Russia they call their Government Sponsored captains "Oligarchs", and they are very closely tethered to the Kremlin---in China they are called, nothing, but when they operate outside of China we refer to them as "State sponsored entities", even though they act and behave like private corporations, however, they report to the CCP...
We often pretend that Capitalism unlike Socialism or Communism has nothing to do with the Government, but it's blatantly obvious that behind EVERY Corporation, the true power behind it is the Government money that it shells for, specifically on international commerce....
The Wests war against the Russian Oligarchs for the Kremlin's invasion of the Ukraine is testament as to who own's much of the wealth behind the oligarchy's corporations....
In consideration to the above inference, we can also begin to view and understand Western Corporations --- and question, if truly the Western govt's hold hidden sway in those strategic Fossil Fuel corporations, who calls the shots, and what intentions do they hold in-regards to Climate Change?
Chile is not in its best momemt, and the current situation is NOT to celebrate
R.I.P Chile
Chile will soon become Venezuela
@@natalkumar6132 Exactly.
Neoliberal trash
Chilezuela Canon boys
this made me cry but not for the right reasons.
I'll try to keep it as short as i can. This all started way before Allende, chile had increasing socialist ideas for years, and they were cemented during Allende's government. His government wasn't nice, there was poverty and a shortage of food. The coup happened, and it was 20 years of torture. Once democracy is regained (not by the socialist parties btw, they wanted a bloody socialist revolution), Chile adopted more centrist ideas, because it was the union between parties that allowed democracy to return.
Through the years since, chile has kept the neoliberalism system, and centrist governments (kinda), and improvement was seen. But the parties have become greedy and more extremist (also, populism), and the neoliberalism system is way more aggressive too, leading to incredible growth in the last 10 years. The problem is that the economy of the country has grown, but the quality of life has not improved at the same rate (be it known that things are way better, but not as good as were reported to be).
A lot of social demands build over the years, and they exploded on 2019, the constitution was an agreement made as an excuse to shut up the people and stop the protesters, as the main goal was never to remake the constitution.
But is a great opportunity, if not for the fact that a lot of parties use it to further their own ideas, and also the fact that the people building the constitution are NOT experts on constitution rights, so its a difficult task.
That being said, the constitution was almost certainty going to be approved no matter the government, the threat of protests and political unrest being far too big to take the risk.
Boric presidency is then a puppeteering show to keep the people calm and let those behind him do as they please. The way he came to power was because all the parties took their backing off the only candidate that could have won against him, Sebastian sitchel, a centrist. And they did that because Sitchel refused to agree to their demands (he said that a particular law in motion was stupid, therefore making his party look dumb). So the right united behind kast who is a nutjob, and the center and left behind boric, let it be known that everyone knew kast was going to lose, he was a dictatorship apologist. So the voting became socialism vs dictatorship.
I dont know if Boric will do a good job, its too soon to say, and i recognize that this is a great opportunity for the country. But i wont allow people to change the way this all came to be, to further a narrative. this is not a story of the good socialist vs the evil of neoliberalism. This is just another story in which the domineering class manipulating the commoners to think there is change (boric is from a well off family with ties to politics).
This, this video shows things as if the socialist political side of Chile is a noble movement with no flaws, however they are also guilty of having extremist views that dont look for a common ground but rather foccus on their own interests, antagonizing anyone who disagrees wtih them
Their poverty rates tell a different story…
As a chilean is obvious that is a superficial view from a foreigner, There is a huge problem with the new constitution being too ambigous with law. And like making it simple, the constitution divides two types of people. Chilean and indigineeous people, making the mapuche more important as people than the chileans, It would be interesting you to analyse that situation.
Look, as a Chilean myself and admittedly I don't read most of the news of the constitutional process because I know scandals and stuff will continue to happen, so it will be much useful to read the final draft, read different expert takes on it and then to make a judgment, if this constitution will be beneficial or not, and what my vote will be.
Now, because of that, I don't know precisely what have been pass or not, besides catching some broad headlines on newspapers. But let me tell you what I know, because a group of people have more explicit consideration on the law, just one way to put it, it often just means to that group to be treated with the same level of respect that the rest of the population always enjoyed. It means that often because laws or/and policy, the group of people is not treated the same, even thou laws may not say explicitly to discriminate certain groups(sometimes outright says it) but the result is basically the same.
This is seen clearly on the laws and policies, that go from explicit to implicit on more of a century, on the case of sexism or racism on the US and other countries.
So the most effective method to protect and help this groups, is to make explicit laws to first guarantee their basic rights and second help them to get on the same level as the rest, because there are plenty of studies that demonstrate poorly economic situations from past generations, specifically product of State policies, will significantly affect the wealth of the present generation and future generation. So, governments need to have active action, the laws aren't meant to have certain groups more privileges than the rest, it's meant to give that group a fair shot to catch up.
Again, I don't know exactly what have been pass to the final draft of the Constitution, I think I remember the creation of new institutions like a Native Trial, which I would be inclined to agree, but all depend how is written. Other thing super important, it's how the transition laws will be written.
Anyways, I'm happy to continue discuss the topy if you want to, like if you want the papers to back up my claims, it shouldn't take me long to to find them again, or if you have some proof that contradicts some of my points I'd be very interested on looking into it. Ah, and of course we can talk in Spanish.
Saludos.
hahahah i am chilean, and this video, is a joke, totally blinded. The video is celebrating that socialism is being implemented in the middle of the year 2022 and is being replaced by neoliberalism. Really?. And it omits many things: like the fact that only 30% vote in the conventional elections, that 1% accumulates 25% of the wealth, not 50%, I don't know where they got that figure from,hat it has been the neoliberals who have advanced the most in the rights of the lgbti, in fact, it was the government of piñera (of the center right) that approved gay marriage and adoption, etc... Neoliberalism is not to blame for all the problems that exist in Chile, it is a cultural issue that permeates all of Latin America, that is why we are not yet a developed country, but we are much better off thanks to neoliberalism, which says so much that we must eliminate it and replace it with socialism.
i hope my country too accepts neo liberalism in bigger form cos mine citizens are like biggest haters of capitalism
Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd Chile votes NO on dumb progressive Constitution change.
I'm a chilean, so far i can tell this government is going terrible, the crimes are everyday things, inflation it's another thing, kast is what Chile really needs.
Would Chile benefit from decentralization?
I heard from my father that the immigration issues in chile is rapid? Is this true or is he over exaggerated? If so how bad is the situation looking?
@@JK-gu3tl Maybe
@@personwhoplaysgamesforfun7985 immigration is another problem, mainly in the north, some of the inmigrants break through the border and in Chile they main stuff is drugs or crimes
I can't agree with you. If Kast had won, would be much more likely for the atrocious new constitution to be approved
When you said "like the squad" I couldn't take this seriously anymore...