27.01.2021
- Santiago de Chile
- Pía Figueroa
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Helmut Kramer
(Image by Pressenza)
The heat and the cold have that thing of inevitable denunciation of the unjust. When a city burns or freezes, inequality emerges and there is no way to hide it. The summer in Santiago de Chile, in addition to boiling over with inequality and mismanagement, this 2021 brings extra ingredients of a social outbreak that does not cease, of a pandemic that is worsening, endorsed by the authorities who seem to forget that below, crushed in the recesses of capitalism, there are human beings and that without them nothing is possible, not the market, not consumption, not labour, nothing.