A class faultlines at the core of his new film for netflix the. Onus of all coming up in todays going on the ground 0 1st it was 49 years ago this month that Salvador Allende was inaugurated as president of chile the latin American Country today is not only in the midst of an uprising against the liberal president Sebastian Pinera but witnessing solidarity protests for palestine after more u. K. Armed violence in the middle east involving serial u. N. Resolution violates at israel in the past 24 hours i am there would die in office overthrown and replaced by Anglo American backed dictator Augusto Pinochet and according to some leaders fighting global neoliberalism the legacy of pinochet lives on. Board they dont want to lecture and they want to. Wipe us away in a pinochet style. Sometimes we say these hard things and in europe and other places they see it as an exaggeration or extremist and its not exaggerated they want to put a pinochet in place in venezuela i mean. Today democratically elected maduro may still be in power in venezuela custodian of the worlds greatest known reserves of oil even after attempts by the European Union to overthrow him but in chile washingtons man is in trouble accused of reviving the days when u. K. Companies armed pinochet to torture his people after so many years of trying to recover from a long dictatorship of almost 20 years you have an open wound in the Chilean Society when you have the military on the street and thats another thing that we have to take into account when understanding this crisis is that trauma of to land society of having the military on the street is open again with this repression in human rights violation joining me now via skype is a member of the chamber of deputies of chile the democratic revolution politician jackson who is in valparaiso a city the scene violent clashes between protesters and police want your thanks for joining us before we get to the latest violence remind us way of the global south and even those in nature nation countries look to whats happening in chile as a chronicle of politics foretold the legacy of new liberal dictatorship by a good stupid machine surely. Well thanks 1st of all for this interview its very important where the sap and here in chile we within knock only because of our country but also for the region and also because as you said she was in the in the seventys in the eightys under the dictatorship she doesnt like an experiment of the new liberal policies without a democratic process you know under a dictatorship so it today we. Were living in the rules that the colored boys as we said to this academicians who passed with Milton Friedmans policies before the newlyweds in the rest of the world she was the 1st experiment in the last 30 or 40 years os implemented to our development who is mainly focused on the concentration of our economy and the trickle down economy. Ideology these demonstrations have relieved or release some energy who was very tied up inside of the peoples mind of the people heart that it wasnt able to get to the end of the months without having to spend with credit so i think that when everything is privatized you can not access to that basic rights that should be grand where anted so i think this is one of the main issues whom people in the streets are. Protesting on if the privatization chicago privatization model is the same can you really look at the dead the wounded and the tamed in chile today and compare it though premier as policies and positions policies. No i think that the contacts of course are different between dictatorships not only that human one but the only dictator city the seventys and eightys are different that their soft dictatorships are different kind of the greater shiba are utterly since in the 21st century so i think we are living today a lot of repression. Different marlos that. The democratic whistle lucians in order to change things for example this constitution this model and today were discussing except that how they yes policies are not. Enough for the population and the country is very polarized but the majority want to change the constitutions once a tool hire to get higher wages want to heart more Social Security that we dont have because hes privatized so i think that yes but he says. The opposition is not. Its not enough that what hes putting on the table you know but it has to be said that in the era like the former british backed dictator british a claims he has we need to comic lee successful he said hes reduced poverty route 65 percent to 8 percent according to what he said while the British State mandated b. B. C. So lets be clear the net has been successfully not because i mean hes one of the most billionaires people here in chile one of the top 5 billionaires and he like to make one of the top 10 or 20 probably but our country. Is not about democracy numbers today they are in employment its high its a day. Or numbers of Economic Growth are not what was expected to be where it would be yes promises on campaign but more than that people cannot get into the end of the month people have asked to to to have credit in order to buy in the supermarket the basic incomes i mean but it did basic thanks to to eat our economical elite house and get that didnt get the message until these days ok but then for you and your movement the trade unions and premier theyre supporting a new constitution presumably an updated version of that new liberal pinochet 1980 constitution do you feel its not enough you want to constituent assemblys and plebiscites. This is what the n. S. A. That a few days ago in national television. He said that he wants also new constitution but in terms of what his did mechanisms he didnt say anything new because the current constitution the constitution puts qualms in order to change the going to dish and there are 2 thirds of the members of the of the house in order to change it until you know the proposal of its only rhetorical because they dont want to put a democratic constitution that doesnt pass describes so its like a trap its like a retake track but people who are. In favor and people are reading the constitution people are starting to understand what are these locks that are from 981 from the communist mind in pinochets. Constitution and our people are starting to realize that we doubt a process does a constituent process could be named assembly or wherever you want to call it but we doubt this locks that very very tight its impossible to have a democratic constitution or your movement has shut down the apec conference where trump was supposed to sign a new u. S. A trade deal with china which he didnt bring also there was a climate coverage you shut down the what next because obviously the world news chile because of copper the Worlds Largest copper production copper mines are in chile have you got the workers the copper mine is on your side because according to Financial News wires your movement is not affecting the copper Commodity Prices which presumably could be crucial. 1st of all its i dont feel this is my movement i feel that i dont river send exactly the movement of course were on the streets but the movement. It doesnt have like a head or power to this leading it its quite more decentralized and morally quick but i think that the demands of course are not to take down the conference or the opic because thats not the subject of the movement your question about the coverage workers theres a lot of support and theres a little bit of. Strikes. On their minds but has not been until now a massive strike on the demining sector if the government sets theres going to be a referendum in order to choose their paths or for how we change the constitution probably did movement. Celebrated as a victory ok but any expectation the international dock Workers Council may get a Solidarity Campaign going on 5 continents like when the liverpool strikes are on here in 1905 is that the kind of where were going and do you fear military reprisal. Well sadly the 1st days of opinion us response were military state of emergency and we have suffered 5 people dead killed killed by the state agents we have more than 4000 people detained there has been people tried to there has been more than 200 people without an eye because of the shots that the police do today manifestations of the demonstrations so were very worried about this spiral of violence that to take place on the streets because in the 1st place t. V. Doesnt have a tradition of riots there are so high like this but when the police. Act in their way get out they have been acting this weeks and of course people started to response and thats not something that we want we just want to this taking a political path but the government refuses this so strictly were having violation of human rights by the agents of the state and thats something that. Rejects. In other territories in our region but here in ne ne ne in domestic land. Was decided to send the repression into the demonstrations to create a bigger gap between the demand and the response so people are not politicized and yesterday and probably without the political decision of the referendum its difficult to get into a solution or jackson thank you after the break Award Winning journalist greg palast on the return of the pink tried surging across latin america from chile to brazil to ecuador and we explore the global tremors of a new release go to produce netflix film earth quake bird with the films Award Winning director watch west brom. The simple coming up part 2 of going underground. There are good and bad the bad news in yemen. The good. Lord in syria the cia and the u. S. Military were engaged in covert actions really throughout the world. Where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up the right way military funding and arming death squads theres no. Because theres always a small. Profit. Welcome back in the 1st half we heard from one of chiles most popular politicians about the struggle to free the country from the constitution of u. S. U. K. Back dictator Augusto Pinochet but for more of that and other fights for democracy taking place now for america im joined now by skype by Award Winning muckraker greg palast whos in Los Angeles California greg thanks so much for coming back on so we heard from a chilean politician youve been one of the worlds greatest communicators about globalization what sit made you feel seeing violence in chile could be the cradle of neo liberalism. Look this is an old story weve now had for decades of battles back and forth between the neo cons and globalization free market liberalization which basically means allowing u. S. And European Companies to grab the resources of latin america they do it under the cover of free markets democracy which oddly doesnt involve respecting elections so ive seen this i was you know reporting on the ground out of venezuela out of peru out of argentina out of chile and so ive seen this again and again where then you have popular uprisings you know you have popular elections putting in people like you good job is you have a home or alephs you had to kitcheners in argentina you had progressive in like battle it in. In chile and of course the neo cons the banks the Big Companies cannot stand it so they have socalled popular uprisings which are very popular because they can actually win elections and basically seize power gets a coup detat because you have a Trump Administration there obviously fueled by a feeling that they have complete backing of the u. S. State department and government you mentioned marama as the media here and you also mentioned resources is talking not about resources b. B. C. Ahead he resigned amid turmoil coke caused by his reelection widely seen as 41 bloomberg said he quit c. N. N. That he resigned Washington Post resigned the New York Times the end of tyranny what can you call it a clue. Ok 1st of all there was an election and he won ok theres a dispute over whether there is no question theres a big dispute over whether he won enough to avoid a runoff but he won by a plurality of 10 percent ok i mean 10 Percentage Points is a landslide in any nation but it wasnt clear that the dispute was whether he wanted to avoid a runoff and instead this. Dispute over whether he quote whether you want by a landslide in one clear or not resulted in an opening for foreign interests and of course the the right wing to try to seize power once again in the santa cruz area the rich area which basically the white you know you dont forget racism in this he was the 1st. Indigenous person ever elected the head of libya which is an indigenous nation and theres a lot of racism and also his you know opposition to his Progressive Agenda so they seized power they were going to try to say lets have an election because he even offered and that wasnt good enough they literally seized the president ial palace guys who werent elected an auteur right wing organizations that were that seize the president ial palace and now they see you know theyre trying to overwhelm the elected and i want to underline that the elected congress which are from the party of evil morales and so there its about overturning democracy and you know this is become a new trope i see this in in venezuela where the british and german and of course the trump government. Has endorsed this guy why do the socalled president of venezuela he didnt even bother running for office and by the way in all these cases you will notice something very very important the candidate is the president picked by foreign powers and again chosen by foreign powers not by the people are all white and racism is a gigantic part of the story of the control of latin america well im sure brussels and washington would deny racism but arguably they have failed in their attempts to overthrow the government of my doro of course because you know the Worlds Largest known oil reserves tell me about the school of the americas because 6 of the key plotters in bolivia went to the school of the americas what is that well as cool the americas as a kind of. Its a Training Ground basically for coup plotters what it is its supposed to be in place to to show latin American Military how to behave properly you know that this is suppose it was started because latin American Military was simply killing its citizens who were going to tell them how to control the population and do it politely without killing people in fact it became a school for coup plotters and of course encouraging the takeover of latin nations because the truth is that the Us Government and us corporations are quite unhappy with the idea of democracy in latin america and with Venezuela Oil was obviously an important element tell me about lithium because otherwise bolivia is just one of the poorest of the poorest country in latin america do we all carry a possibility here with us in our mobile phones and is that part of a crew yeah i mean one of the one of the problems weve had this is all over the world live is not a special case it has lithium just as the democratic republic of congo has. A cold hand and also lithium and uranium its a resource grab it see old game that. We had in the 19th century in the early 20th century of grabbing resources except we dont do it making the anymore we have to cover it up saying oh were restoring democracy by removing elected officials lets face it if venezuelas main export were broccoli instead of oil they wouldnt care whos president there no forget that in the case of venezuela to give you a clear example. Of them and during government refused a request by the British Government and British Petroleum to turn over what was the french concession in venezuela to British Petroleum to b. P. Now to endure a government that was 2 years ago of the manure government simply handed b. P. The french concession in venezuela there would be no problem with the madeira government but madeira said no were keeping it were going to give it to the to the Venezuelan Oil company pay to mesa and and it was at that point that the British Government and of course all the other european governments said well then in that case youre not a legitimate president you would have been quite legitimate if you turned over the oil to be pete well as you know b. P. And European Union governments will deny that and say its all about human rights act show me and we could also talk about the optimism of the return of the pink tide maybe the late today i want to ask you now though about Voter Suppression youre an expert on it will the 2020 election in the United States be fair. No not a chance america is a great imitation of democracy but we remove in the last 2 years are you ready for this United States as the various states have removed 14000000 voters from the voter rolls its called purging and theyre removed you know its like a and im up for the voter rolls to put in the crudest terms and theyre removing mainly voters of color black people hispanic and a lot of young people and they use all kinds of of tricks and its usually involving what we call jim crow or racist tactics but always with black voters and thats not just one state thats happening in 25 states in america greg thank you very welcome. Well themes of National Id