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I answer me ok you are watching the stream do you remember last october when there were demonstrations were over to night there were a violent reactions from the police that demonstrators were absolutely determined to bring about social change in negotiations with the government have resulted in a referendum for a new constitution and that referendum is on the 25th a little bit earlier we spoke to protest an activist not talk torah and he was feeling hopeful syphilis and. I could see these huge almost a year after october 18th and the beginning of the social outbreak in chile people in chile continue to fight for the demands of the rebellion and to end with the inheritance of the pinochet dictatorship facing the plebiscite there are many of us who continue to denounce the repression of pinions government and the agreement for peace and the new constitution that was signed by the traditional parties of the 30 years behind the peoples backs and that guarantees implicity for the repressors thats why we believe that we must continue to trust in our fighting forces voting i approve but fighting for a 3rd alternative a constituent Assembly Free and sovereign so that the working people are the ones who decide or. Unpacking she has upcoming referendum on the stream today im sure you have to take jump into the comments section of your new chief and you too can be part of our conversation. And i guess good to see you cecilia welcome back to the stream you were here last year as a protester and now were going to be talking about the upcoming referendum whats happened in a year to see it tell everybody here. Yes its nice to be here again. Actually i continue protesting mark yes much just right before you know what they mean problem. A much younger not talking to you for our concepts. Of the n. C. P. Or from the copy bill. Also im part of. A work in the case. That issues especially why announce internet my so nice to have you and 100 are welcome to the stream introduce yourself to the world thank you i am out of hand im out journalists also. I have a long career as our greater investigative journalist and i am currently in new york studying a master of creative writing good to have you and carlos. Hello im calling straw men named after a journalist writer. Specializes in finance economics and politics in im talking to you from developer lisa area. Good to have a color as i am looking at a headline from the New York Times and 12 months ago chilean president responding to protests promises to address the economic woes so that was about 12 months ago that economists call us how did he do how did the government. Well it did poorly because when the pandemic started in the economic outcome was visible they stuck to the socalled austerity narrative without anyone asking them to so direction was very poor. It kept people without any significant aid from the government in terms of distress so it forced people to ask new measures and one of these measures was extracted reluctantly from government which is the possibility to take some money from depression accounts from the private Pension System which was created by the 2 ship in which is one of the main aspect of the economic model of inequality that is currently in the middle of the problem of what will be a put into test in the referendum what will be the outcome of this model of capital accumulation within the very few very few all to reach in this country and all the people have make a living out of the status quo. Im just thinking about how many of the people that we spoke to for the show and there were so many and they were so young and they had a very good idea of what they want the protests if they brought and they cover so many things but cecilia as somebody who has been protesting and only been stopped by covert 19 if you could clarify what it is that you need from your government what would you say. I mean. We need real changes we are like really tired of these ever know konstam demand we do is theyre trying to port in their very big want or a country. We are in a very unequal country we have problems in almost every aspect and a scholar say. Theres been very illegal her lips to the people during this pandemic or given an example and even now i get access to this helps where i have to take money from my pension fund like a lot of people do so we are still like really are poor response from their government we are tired of the system we need to start over but even if theres a lot of people asking for changes in the constitution theres also a really big part of their population that. If they really care of chain years are over thats also part of the population but are benefits get benefits from these people. You know on the trip or sound that cost the world or they are against these changes 100. 00 do you understand the people who are against changes it does just afraid that chile is not going to be recognizable from the chile that they grew up in. I think you can go. To a show. Taking all the difference but you can. Do why. Did you set up minority our. They have. Last names and they all leave grows by in 3 neighborhoods in santiago and they concentrate all types of power they concentrate economic up power they concentrate their political power and also this social power and the constitution that was. Weed and their dictator ship managed to keep that in place even though we have to say the years of democracy actually today is the only or any very. Last really see to let me say we have 988 to over drawn not 10 so. 30 years later more than 30 years later people are still asking where is central to democracy that the minorities had their power not our where the minority and thats thats a main issue and for that you need to rewrite the constitution because. Any any issue will. Crash against this war that. Forbidden change. Connel serious crippling yet hes no. Senior i will yeah i would like to come back to the resistance to change which is very very delicate issue because its normal its expected will that people will be afraid of a situation when you are used to a system for throughout like lets say the last 40 years and one of the main. The main. Lies of argument is that this system created wealth that it decision was. Able to sue to to get a momentum of high growth in the very 1st stages of this neo liberal experiment which was in acted as a hunter said instance certain in a country of a dictatorship. In the context of what would naomi klein call a shock doctrine you know so what would we expect now because that how i Economic Growth in the early stages of the experiment it just lost steam elastin is through the ninetys in after each successive recession the country was. Was growing slower and slower too until almost stagnation and who did the defenders of the model blame the teachers the workers who are not saving enough we were spending too much in who did. Who did indoors this is a spending spree of the middle class the system the banks you know and so so we are to do blame work to blame what happened and not the guys who are in charge. The guys who designed Public Policy the guys who privatized everything almost everything the guys who expose the chilean publisher to environmental disaster in etc etc etc so now what set people off last october everyone knows was a small increase in the metro fare but actually wood was a state was the lack the lack of trust for the situations whether government was active branch etc this is 110 i would like to add that. When he says states he stole. A profound meaning other than ocracy and in 988 this logan of a plebiscite of people that didnt want to be nurtured to continue power was they have been nice their happiness is coming. And what that means when the west im enough happiness and they happiness is not just their right to vote their happiness priority in the mind of many was to recover what we had before did it take the ship and thats it was a constant gaining of rides told through all 19th century. To all 20 century and. Not just. So. All that was lost health education. Barrick pension everything was lost and never to a government so that people lost patience so let me share this with you because what you what youre saying very clearly is there is a disparity to say the least between the wealthy and she lay and everybody else have a look here this is this is a headline is from september she lay announced 2000000000 dollar package to help with cover and create new jobs so see here is this going im saying colors noting is red im going to put this this is really a personal because her piece of what she needed change in her country was very long to see where you start and then kind of you pick up is 2000000000. 00 worth of. Job creation creating new jobs how will this help will this help for me still years trying. To fix in the real problem worse to go in the subsidiary see if down in wish the states just have our supply mentary role can into remain in the can i mean so now in the mirror part and then me theres not only. Jobs im not seeing. People mostly im there are their incomes also there was an increase of their prices of many themes of the. In the milf upon them with people with no europe the state can do anything at all because or see if them our constitution allows that and. These people the harassed the the bar were. The well. Where they have other scores from earlier and theyre given trying to get clear and also a lot of fake meals to their work out to workers trying to not change the system so or for me or that meal is like a mark like its not really because me. Its too late and too little it should have been done in march in april they had the sovereign bonnie issues in the f. C. C. In new york they could have committed 3 times that amount in march in april when they were they were sticking to that narrative austerity was charity we cannot spend more because we dont have the resources that was not true that was absolutely fake and this is a government is committed to low taxation for the reach cetera etc etc so and its the outcome as a lake under state of 30 years of 40 years of neoliberal policies that deprive the government the state of the tools to address the sort of crisis in terms of distress the people the average family the working class family even the middle class families are on their own absolutely so that thats why we had to. See a set we had to resort to our own Pension Funds. And now were talking. Second operation with a cigarette and. I would like also to defy the is trying to an economy julianne economy mosques because of this Pension Funds their pension fund. Huge amount of capital. Distribute every day between their reach companies which in turn then lend their money for example that received some money from their pension back and left their money to their work or to. Abedi high rate of interest so there is no real. Companies that you could say today is broke you seeing some kind of intelligence or adding value to their product julie is leaving. Childers are the workers and their workers dont get anything in return thus thats the reality and the prove is that when workers retire there are these pension because of the pandemic in because the government didnt do anything they spend the money back under system pain they dont beals the credits that they have and they couldnt leave hoost so we dont do workers and we dont do work just money nothing happens e. G. So let me just show you what the prisoner of of chile was saying about the new measures that hes bringing in color says too little too late and on twitter and im going to use the translation because my spanish is my mouth all right so the presidency. With this lot together with the gallon tea minimum income stressing the solidarity pillar of pensions and Unemployment Insurance we continue to improve our social protection so obviously he is aware of what the issue is. Instead and now let me show you do you 2 clips of the president chile with you the 1st one was last year almost a year ago when he was pushing back at the protesters on the street and the world was looking aghast at some of the human rights abuses that were happening so october 29000. 00 is imminent. But they said that really. Is not anything or anybody whos willing to use violence and crime without any limits even when it means loss of human life who are willing to burn our hospitals our metro stations our supermarkets with the only goal of causing as much harm as possible to all chileans they are at war with all well meaning chileans who want to live in democracy with freedom and in peace that the looked a little bit well i wouldnt get him. And that was our share and then this year 90 General AssemblyUnited NationsGeneral Assembly is when all the leaders get together or they did it virtually this year because of covert 19. A slightly different tone lets have a listen. We have to learn from the lessons of the past lessons that have tutors the value of unity dialogue corporation under green mint when all is said and done house divided against itself cannot stand we also have to act as ive said with a sense of urgency because there is no time to be squandered we are firmly convinced that there can be no social justice absent growth and development nor can there be any growth and development absent social justice. Carlos what if youre writing a book. And writing about this construed narrative about the enemy within you thats very thats very very easy and cheap to do too because it doesnt stress all the shortcomings of this Current Situation in this government they dont take responsibility for whats happening its its them its the enemy within they are destroying this country and they with this know and you and youre right if you rattle me about it did the president asked change a little bit ditto no because of his discourse agenda but the finally whats going on is is this as we see right now. But theyre bubbly Health Workers being attacked by police force and thats the kind of dialogue he wants thats the one thing that sort of Unity National unity that hugh said try to achieve. We need answers you know we get there and you i mean we say also about there are legal measures that have been accustomed to announce you know be be kept lines and. Then when you see how their money is distributed it they are right right in manners that are. Laid out for people to occupy its very difficult to get that benefit and there are. Wire of the money for example that it was supposed to go to a Small Business went to big business so people its really difficult to believe what hes saying that they were that you saying are going to apply in reality ok thats the last that creativity a long time i guess im going to get you to work hard and i want instant arts is because you tube has questions for you. Thank you is chile a developed country when you chile suffering from these big demonstrations and protests to see a quick glance of that one for me that i wore absolutely not develop more like a dream or a lie in play all around me. If like suncream paper not in the radical and a 100 i would like to take this you tube question from old green thank you al green politicians in chile have the worst evaluation with the public system why would she aims to rustam for creating a new constitution. Oh well because the option out there let me say people get elected to write the constitution and thats the whole that well people re presenting are the people that has been left out to now qualities write the constitution. I want to bring in it have yet cause were looking at hopes for the future a lot of the young that we spoke to were really hopeful these october 25th referendum theyre very excited about it and decide to have a yes we can have the 1st country to shap are going to use them we have gender parity around the work and the presence of a new term people we are really hopeful with a lot of this change in stool read drought and you democracy in. The city but can a constitution do that its your list was so long that you actually started to smile because you know it was a really long list of what you needed changed in july a can of referendum on a new constitution cannot cannot give you everything that you want i think if the 3rd step is the 1st step to pushing in the system well its not the last part of me i believe a lot in the people in the sea defense more than any Political Parties i thing they say we are horror and our way of people not only lady of sorry to part of the party of right and i knew it and advanced but. Not very last up. In the same man prost theres our problems are going to buy you that he was a player and i really would love you to listen to treys or because theresa she cheap bases her hope on the history of chile that perhaps this referendum could be a milestone in chinese history and 0. 70 to asia. These protests were dangerous and bad places not because of the pro