Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Nota: This feature currently requires accessing the site using the built-in Safari browser.
On the one hand, the center right candidate Evelyn Matthei promises to continue Chile along the successful economic path of the last decades.And on the other hand, former president Michelle Bachelet’s new socialist platform promises to make radical changes to the current Chilean economic system.
The political parties of the the coalition that governed Chile from 1990 to 2010, the Communist party, and other minor left-wing groups merged into Bachelet´s coalition called “Nueva Mayoría.” The Communist party has historically been a destabilizing factor in Chilean politics and has been absent from government since 1973. Fully embedded in the logic of the Cold War, it still considers Fidel Castro´s Cuba the ideal political and economic system. Despite its anti-democratic features and its limited number of supporters, Chilean communists have managed to become increasingly influential in national politics through the massive student movement that brought President Piñera´s government to its knees in 2011 and 2012.
As a result of this free market revolution, the Chilean economy boomed. In the last 35 years poverty has fallen from 50 percent to 11 percent, per-capita income has increased from 4.000 dollars to almost 20.000 dollars and inflation was reduced from over 250 percent per year to less than 7 percent per year. This remarkable record has been known as Chile’s ‘economic miracle’.
Key to the entire free-market transformation were the political institutions established in the Constitution of 1980, which despite several reforms in the last two decades continues to be the highest law of the country. Like the American Constitution, the Constitution of 1980 established a limited democracy. Its central aim was to secure economic liberty and private property so that the country would not fall prey again to collectivist tendencies that could threaten to destroy both the economy and the democratic institutions..
But the next four years could change that. Misses Bachelet, who will most likely win the coming election, has argued for a substantial rewrite of the 1980 Constitution, even by means that are not permitted under it. The aim of such a rewrite, according to her advisers, would be to end what they regard as an unjust „neoliberal“ system. Instead, Misses Bachelet proposes to create a massive welfare state that provides all sorts of benefits to the people and will replace the market as the main engine of economic growth with government-led industrialization.
Some of the proposals include a takeover of the education system by the government, a dramatic increase in taxes for corporations, free higher education, switching the funded social security system back to pay as you go, and the re-election of the president of the republic.
The spirit of Ms. Bachelet, whose government program basically aims to revive many of the failed policies implemented by Chile from the 1940s to the early 1970s, has led some members of the center right to accuse her of following the populist path of former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. This comparison may seem exaggerated. What is in any case clear is that if Ms. Bachelet wins the next presidential election and her coalition manages to put forward the new socialist agenda, Chile´s economic miracle will face an unprecedented challenge which might seriously endanger its survival.
No miren tan a huevo el asunto. Axel Kaiser es el típico reaccionario que a cualquier costa quiere quede la cagada en Chile porque tiene miedo de perder sus privilegios, es un Agustín Edwards de nuestro tiempo.
Y dejé de leer
Asesima
Me iba a molestar en abrir el link, pero gracias a tu post, me he privado de hacerlo.
Yo tampoco quiero que salga Bachelet, pero porque es chanta, porque es una neoliberal más como todo su bloque, no porque nos vaya a llevar al abismo económico soviético, que es lo que pretende hacernos creer ese austriaco de mierda que está en contra de la educación gratuita siempre y cuando se la paguen con becas.
Como no nos va a llevar a la mierda si reparte bonos a destajo a los falsos pobres, idemnizaciones a wns que no lo merecen, y como guinda, a los empresarios les rebaja los impuestos
Al final si mandaría a la mierda todo, porque ahora se considera clase media a los wns que ganan hasta 2 millones de pesos, porque ellos pagan el global complementario
Me preocupa más la obligación subsidiaria del estado para con los exportadores y en fin con cada wn que quiera dárselas de empresario, no así con el pueblo. Algún candidato promete algo relacionado a eso?
Pero en la base, dudo mucho que Bachelet sea la quiebra para el modelo. Hombre, cuando iba a salir electo Allende, toda la derecha nacional e internacional se puso en alerta y comenzó a planear como derrocarle. Ahora es todo lo contrario, el empresariado sale a apoyarla públicamente.
ya, Matthei, la UDI popular son centro, y Bachelet, que cuenta con el amplio apoyo de la banca y el megaempresariado, es socialista. ya.
por otra parte , las mas desarrolladas sociedades del mundo tienen un amplio y severo sistema tributario, bienestar garantizado en salud, pensiones y educacion para la poblacion. Noruega, Finlandia, Holanda, Canada. paises sin firmes recaudaciones de impuestos solo se prestan para el saqueo corporativo a gran escala, como Chile. cuestionar esto no es ser comunista, es tener un minimo de raciocinio.