Focus on movements, not peopleleprofessionalDecember 20 2011, 21:22:14 UTC
This comment was interesting, albeit bitter... "The students of Chile know what is going on. We do not support Camila Vallejos Communist agenda. It is all about stradegy and gaining attention. There are many students who have received death threats and have been teargassed and there are the students who have starved themselves in a hunger strike for the sake of education reform. Camila poses for the cameras. And since she has been critized for not protesting suddenly she is in the news again crying that she was teargassed. She does not protest but only poses for the cameras. Do the RESEARCH OF FACT CHECKING, Brazil invited Camila to reciprocate as Brazils leaders had been first to Chile. Camila went to Brazil to exchange the favor."
Re: Focus on movements, not peopleavivDecember 20 2011, 21:35:05 UTC
Mmm... Camila Vallejo goes to every march/protest. I really don't think that she poses for the cameras, but yes, there's always journalist asking her question during the protests/marchs.
You have to understand that in Chile the Communist Party is hated with passion. They always get between 3% and 6% of votes (though only 30% aprox of the population votes). I don't know why they hate them so much, because this party since their begining has been in favor of democracy, even though they fail to criticise Cuba and such. So, a lot of people think that Vallejo is practically a puppet of the comunist party and maybe because of that Gabriel Boric won the presidency of the Fech. ((Boric is an autonomista, who don't believe in political parties -they don't mind their existences, but they think that there are a lot of ways to change things, and right now our political parties are totally disconected with the people)) But Boric is pretty similar to Vallejo, he's also from the left.
Re: Focus on movements, not peopleavivDecember 20 2011, 21:42:07 UTC
BTW, this hate for the Communist party maybe comes from the fact than in the 70s, Allende was elected president. He was a socialist and won with the help of the communists. But things were difficult at the time, we had a lot of inflation, there was a lot of polarization, the CIA was helping the right... Allende was doing a Agrarian reform, he made the vote universal... But also people from the right were hiding food and things so there would appear that we didn't have food and then blame the government. And then we have a coup d'etat and a dictatorship that lasted 17 years. A lot were happy that Allende was gone, because they thought that we were transforming into another Cuba.
So now every time the Communist party is mentioned, everybody think of the 70s and how there was no food, there were chaos and they blame Allende and the far left.
Re: Focus on movements, not peopleleprofessionalDecember 20 2011, 21:48:10 UTC
Why do they associate this specific student movement with a political party though? Is it intentional... specially one so controversial which I imagine would turn people off who would otherwise agree with the ideas?
"The students of Chile know what is going on. We do not support Camila Vallejos Communist agenda. It is all about stradegy and gaining attention. There are many students who have received death threats and have been teargassed and there are the students who have starved themselves in a hunger strike for the sake of education reform. Camila poses for the cameras. And since she has been critized for not protesting suddenly she is in the news again crying that she was teargassed. She does not protest but only poses for the cameras. Do the RESEARCH OF FACT CHECKING, Brazil invited Camila to reciprocate as Brazils leaders had been first to Chile. Camila went to Brazil to exchange the favor."
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You have to understand that in Chile the Communist Party is hated with passion. They always get between 3% and 6% of votes (though only 30% aprox of the population votes). I don't know why they hate them so much, because this party since their begining has been in favor of democracy, even though they fail to criticise Cuba and such.
So, a lot of people think that Vallejo is practically a puppet of the comunist party and maybe because of that Gabriel Boric won the presidency of the Fech. ((Boric is an autonomista, who don't believe in political parties -they don't mind their existences, but they think that there are a lot of ways to change things, and right now our political parties are totally disconected with the people)) But Boric is pretty similar to Vallejo, he's also from the left.
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And then we have a coup d'etat and a dictatorship that lasted 17 years. A lot were happy that Allende was gone, because they thought that we were transforming into another Cuba.
So now every time the Communist party is mentioned, everybody think of the 70s and how there was no food, there were chaos and they blame Allende and the far left.
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And because both, the movement and the party, criticise capitalism/neo-liberalism?
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