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.
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"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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This movement has been one of the coolest things of 2011.
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"Students eventually defeated the government, making Piñera the most unpopular president in the history of Chilean democracy".
BAHAHAHA.
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