Allende, a life for democracy and socialism
Chile ephemeris lives these days, three dramas and two deeply intertwined. This month has already brought the 40 anniversary of the historic victory of Salvador Allende and the Unidad Popular in the presidential election. That September 4, 1970 the Chilean people opened wide the doors of history and undertook a thorough process of economic, social, cultural and political. The "Chilean road to socialism" could only be defeated by the coup of 11 September 1973, which met 37 years ago, played by the military but stimulated by the right, the Christian Democrats, the bourgeoisie and Washington.
These two dates are probably the most important days of two centuries of republican history along with the September 18, 1810, when he established the first National Governing Board, which opened the way to the process of independence that ended in 1818 and that, after a turbulent decade, between 1829 and 1833 ended with the imposition of a strict oligarchic state that broke down partially to the Popular Front victory in 1938, of which Salvador Allende was an outstanding leader.
Within a week of commemoration of the bicentennial, 33 workers remain buried from August 5 to 700 meters deep in the San José mine because of sweatshop conditions in developing their work, post-recognized-by the mine owners and the government itself Sebastián Piñera. And besides, 34 Mapuche political prisoners are on hunger strike since 12 July. If the labor movement the government applies the restrictive Labour Code, imposed by the dictatorship in 1980, the Mapuche mobilizations in defense of their territories and their demand for autonomy are brutally suppressed and punished with the use of the Terrorism Act that Pinochet was approved in 1984.
addition, recent studies confirm that Chile is a country where the gap between rich and poor is more pronounced up towards the levels, for example, Haiti, the product of neoliberal policies which coordinates the Coalition remained unchanged for 20 years and since the March 11 manages its real driving force, a right of a new type of counter Pinochet daughter and firmly planted in the pop world.
Piñera is ready to live their first September 11 from La Moneda and chairing many events of the bicentennial with an insistent and rhetorical call for "national unity". Meanwhile, the four parties comprising the coalition recently renewed its domes to meet the new round of elections looming on the horizon soon, with the 2012 municipal elections and parliamentary and presidential elections of 2013 and the Communist Party is involved in discussions of the XXIV Congress.
Beyond doubt about the next presidential candidate of the coalition (which depends essentially on the will of Michelle Bachelet, who retains huge popular support), they will face a crossroads medium term this coalition and the leftist forces lies in the possibility of going beyond a timely alliance, such as allowing three deputies elected in December Communists for the first time since 1973, to weave a political agreement and a program that can open new era.
are sometimes the small gestures or results that change history. On March 15, 1964 the unexpected victory of the left in a partial vote to elect a deputy in Curico set out to right to give up its own candidate to lead and support the Social Christian Eduardo Frei, who defeated Allende in September of that year . Just last month in the city of Penco, in the region Biobío, local leaders of the coalition and the Communist Party signed an agreement to join ahead of the elections of 2012 in order to defeat the right, which currently holds the mayor.
The debate over their national projections already installed on the political agenda. The right wing has been quick to showcase his anti toughest and certainly the Christian Democratic doubts persist until the last minute. Meanwhile, the Socialist Party is in favor of exploring a deal, like the Communist Party, which advocates a broad convergence of political and social forces to win a government "new guy" who left behind the neo-liberal dogmas and then possible the full democratic development. A 37-year
bombing of La Moneda and the beginning of a cruel dictatorship, the memory of Salvador Allende and the Unidad Popular illuminates this way. Indeed, that unforgettable night September 4, 1970, when she stopped being "companion Allende" to become "our president", he ended his speech at the Alameda de Santiago, to the thousands of people celebrated the victory of UP, filled with words of genuine affection with which he always addressed the workers and have an absolute effect: "Tonight, when you touch your child when they seek rest, think hard about tomorrow we go, when we have to put more passion, more love, to make increasingly large and increasingly Chile just life in our country .... "
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