A looming election join me Steve Clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u. S. Politics and society on aljazeera. May 29th t. Massive protests against inequality chile forced the government promised changes to the constitution to take spec to the finishing of the 978 that process was put on hold as the coronavirus pandemic hit but chiles political divisions have to go the way weve been to find out why. The dignity square as it is called now was the epicenter of antigovernment protests in chile during late 2019. Months later as the capital santiago was locked down amid the current virus can damage the authorities seize the moment to erase all signs of what had happened yeah. Thats hanging out. Here you think were going to go or not the architect. Was among thousands of people who joined the protests calling for radical political and economic changes in chile. You know nothing i dont know for you. But im going to do is when i. Go to the reporters were going to do it last week. I. Be unrest began last october after the government increased ticket prices on the metro i. Call in University Students joined the mass protests jumped in areas vandalizing equipment i. Tune off the metro stations were fun. Acts of looting also were caught. And more demonstrations took place across the country. The Police Responded aggressively. And. Weve gone through. 18 filbert on alert a high number of serious Human Rights Violations we needed. In the weeks the following 31 people die on the most free. Were injured. Among them what are the 450. 00 the value. By probability of. Public outrage forced the government to apologize. You know. Not of the. 6 women do not spoil the beatles in most of the title but if you take a look at it well see. I will not be were going to consume the last. Thing were going to write every round on our own i said. When i where. For beyond left. By shattered glass after he was shot by a policeman close range. You can be sure to put the procureur down for if you just said were going to go over to the local incidents like these have further divided the country along ideological lines which had a mountain of the basics in exactly one thing i mean i think. In the 2nd when we came in the belly i mean he said no well. Let me look but i want to stay a while this. Was a kind of. The same opinion so you come to the final when you come to your family and i guess if you only you know if you can find the way to get it to my knowing its an old woman judgment day were going to. Work in one of the when you go sort of dont want to get to the bones here youve got a head on the going to. See im trying to guess how he was in office and then dragging fantastic yes its awful so listen have a bit of it in there. The band. Get out in the face of it i mean if i dont get on the phone by hussein the idea that i need a d. N. A. 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Market economy with well established institutions and democracy. The foundations of the current Economic System were laid more than 40 years ago by a group of children economists who studied in chicago. Act their proposals were adopted by the regime of general pinochet and ratifying the 1980 constitution. That would be from the noise of a 10 speed of a single men. In. Their. Lead to the us. Or so to leave it. Up all uppity with these soon well have this pool its a few of the finest of them but somebody would be also from them and among other one of the sort of. Economy i guess. And we. Get one. Got a bill he called leaves i want to go low dance of fickleness all of my union oh yes were in a mall in the economy its worse in nearly. This economic model this regards the existence of public goods and what is being. Held up and protected are the businesses of a b. And c. We have 5 families who have 25 percent of our product they are the ones who have a frying pan by the hind. They dont matter because the team will sometimes think they are simple and just go on you its own bubble i said on the sea well 1000 new a little more simple than some to write the words im going with. My he will tell you what on the going over sample some to think about symphony as a decent thing by those. According to the gini index the most widely used measure of inequality chile is among the most on equal of the worlds 30 wealthiest nations. Only saving here until they see a that even within the usa has offices so not only in the ive got im going to start to get a more. Like anthony and i said he says all of us and those here in the air by going on scene when the sentiment of the board is. Single asset it cementing the legacy well that literally will mean lately elephant sunless. Kassab maybe yeah you hear me jim i feel so sick but it may have been the value from all this you know meant us to neil is successful we need some research about the women the women. 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The last 15 year olds who are less pressed to find Education System that was mostly privatized during pinochets regime have been up a center of students to mock seat last years protests continue to on the same theme universities and education institutes were occupied by students feeling for an end to the high tuition costs and related small debts. To government country so. Obvious how. To Research PoorLittle Critter to do whatever so we. Look at whats up when ive got to. Confess how i got a situation i dont mind nearly one month here. To go with. Something that i want out of whats likely arabs and i dont want you to keep what i give more the you and i when i thought id eat it all see how you did you know oh yeah. Im going to keep my you know that there. Are too much of your kind and im on the woman 100 but i discern in my head over to. Lose your way here from some of us were wrestling with when the children over to me would have a. And i will go out. On the community. Members who go. And for its part the government points to a massive increase in student numbers. In 1903 only 870000 teens where it a higher level of. Today 30 years later where you have. 2000000. 00 students in a study at the university or other Higher Education of course thats a big improvement though you have to ask yourself are you willing to spend the extra dollar that you have given access to the university of asian for free to somebody that cant even tell you a for that or get a loan for that or youre going to use that extra base or to improve pensions thats the tradeoff that any government faces. Public discontent goes beyond education and health theres also widespread about chillies privatized Pension System. Its long been criticized for its under performance lower times and delayed payouts i dont know how to nor my god one of them i didnt intend on withdrawal but i dont want to i went off and swim is that all. It was. Was it then i want you going to let me go. For simplicity let me go by you know i mean. Was this a case of we see who you were in the. Early 1980 s. Chiles National Pension scheme was copied in several other countries in latin america and eastern europe. Well the Pension System was created by the brother the president because opinion in the time of the not taking was minister ahead of labor. And he devised this system in which you deposit every month part of your income as part of your future pension and this this money would be administered by these pension institutions that are private that take a profit and they charge you a administrative fee. The problem is that when the 1st generation of people started. Mentioning that he years later they discovered that of course the pension that they were painting was missing. The Current System and that was his work is to give their on insta for profit funds only provides a 3rd of their previous income. Nevertheless the founders argue that it contributes to the growth of the economy. Is one of them and set up a son of a computer and they havent shown it youre going to see the nickel elemental of this really nearly all of them want to see me as a phone that had been shown to. Be a. Protest from october also put traditional democracy under scrutiny. Lacking trust in the political elite chileans mobilized throughout the country organizing spontaneous town Hall Meetings to call for change and to reflect on the historic moment the country is facing. But in all the level of emotion it so but the up the honda. Idea. I gave a. Talk in order to get a pogo say. So the evil wouldnt you know sort of listen to. Our users were impacted and they were. Going there for our own. Youre going to go. With the news you know. Youre going to. Despite the state of emergency it imposed last year the government was on the great depression. On october 25th 2019 more than a 1000000 people took to the streets some travel demanding the resignation of president Sebastian Pinera and the new institution. It was one of the biggest marches the country has ever seen. If it were the single who would it where moment and get the will of the state on well. After weeks of protests and discussions the political establishment finally caved in and agreed on a plebiscite to change the countrys pinochet era constitution we. Will. Go by the. Evil a downhill full circle kramer but its honestly mom i have little that money that them or that. They got one of them better than the other than. Maybe. You dont have one of those im going to study them and they will think. You know hunt right now. But ok i. Evil but in some cream of what one of the put it in a way that there is an infamous and. Chileans will be able to vote whether they want to new constitution and if so whether they wanted to be drafted by a mixed citizen Legislator Convention or one entirely comprised of elected citizens if chile does vote for change the convention would have a year to draft a document that would then have to be ratified in a 2nd referendum. Or not everyone is in favor of change. Ok ok im going to send jennifer get in can go. See him you know because some of the but i want to do you know. I get what i meant to say thats fine better get more serious the get. 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Like it was something thats how people make bad decisions and i think sometimes that you know you know Everything Else its just. The Coronavirus Crisis distorts the political shot you in chile and the plebiscite originally set for april 26th has been postponed. You know for all of us for a number. Of obvious trauma. In the adventure we want to form our other. Significant. Interest in Different Things you know everyone but were going to mean what you. Are going to give us our interview. More. Than a group of friends have been organizing meals for local people whose finances have been hit by the coronavirus. In the meantime as the pandemic continues so does the debate over chiles future. Found a way to basically create wealth in this country we should pursue that to continue to grow at 34 percent a year but starting from. Something that a stop unknown is not going to solve those problems that the average teen on the street has right now. But what i guess was. The force of. 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