[Onthebarricades] Fw: [Arg_Solid] CHILE: "Socialist" government of Bachelet represses women in struggle

[Andy]

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From: Yosef M 
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Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 3:17 AM
Subject: [Arg_Solid] CHILE: "Socialist" government of Bachelet represses women in struggle


In http://www.marxist.com/chile-victoria-bachelet-3.htm, the
Grantists described the victory by neo-liberal "socialist"
presidential candidate Michelle Bachelet in January 2006 as "the first
step in the struggle for social transformation," "el primer paso en la
lucha por la transformación social," and "giro a la izquierda," "a
turn to the left," which is nonsense, since, as the following story
shows, the situation of the poor under Bachelet (and Chávez, and all
the other pro-capitalist politicians supported by the Grantists) is
catastrophic.

As always, the Grantist leadership gives the workers terrible advice:
vote for Rodríguez Zapatero, vote for Chávez, vote for Bachelet, vote
for Tabaré Vázquez, and the result will be a victory for the workers.
In fact, in the Spanish state, in Venezuela, in Chile, and in Uruguay,
the exploiting class is riding high, while workers continue to suffer.

The story which follows uses the terms "poblador/a," which can mean
"settler" or someone who lives in a shantytown, and "población,"
"settlement" or shantytown. The original is at
http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=48015

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Women's Declaration: Chile: Bachelet's government repressed a women's
demonstration on March 8 [International Women's Day]
From: rebelion.org 3/10/2007 [Slightly edited]

Yesterday, March 8, 2007, we, in a group of 600 women, tried to march
down the Alameda on International Women's Day, to demand our rights,
which were trampled on, because of the unjust, machista system of the
bosses, under which we live. We are valiant and humble women, we are
the people who are fed up with the lies of the rich and their
deceitful politicians. We do not want them to continue to treat us
with contempt, and therefore we asked, almost 3 months in advance, for
permission from the City Council of Santiago to use the legitimate
right to walk freely through the streets of Santiago, in this case,
marching down the Alameda. Our intention was to march peacefully from
Plaza Italia to Paseo Ahumada. However, we were repressed, yet again,
by the government of señora Michelle Bachelet [President of Chile].

In the course of the march, in the midst of the unjustified repression
by the Carabinero Special Forces, against women from the shantytowns,
working women, mothers, adults and youth, Nicolás Eyzaguirre, the
former Minister of Finances in the government of Ricardo Lagos [the
previous President] passed by in a late-model Jeep. That gentleman, a
neo-liberal official serving big businessmen, can freely go for a ride
without any difficulty and where he pleases through the high barrio,
receiving congratulations from businessmen and transnational
corporations; but he cannot now do that in the same way among the
workers and poor of Chile.

Is Eyzaguirre the victim of an unjust attack by a crowd of women, a
false accusation, as he wishes to make it appear to the [right-wing
social democratic "Party for Democracy"] PPD and the press? We say he
is not. We say it is the repudiation with which citizens react to what
is happening in our country, where wages mean poverty, jobs are
uncertain, people cannot pay their debts, public transportation is a
disgrace, and all the dramas that our people experience. Señor
Eyzaguirre is one of those responsible. How could one not become
indignant, faced with acts like that by señor Eyzaguirre, who after
this demand by the people, was "shocked" and had to go do "yoga" to
calm himself, while we women of Santiago have to go on waiting for the
bus, since they don't run or stop where we live . . .

It is a display of the luxury that the rich enjoy and of what the poor
cannot do. Therefore, we women who called the march on the eighth [of
March, International Women's Day], who were unjustly repressed by the
Bachelet government, we call on all women and all men to reflect on
the causes at the bottom of the ever-increasing anger that millions of
Chilean women feel, in the face of such abuse. We call on the people
from the shantytowns of Chile [to see] that no authority strolls
through our settlements unpunished, and that in every place in Chile
they receive our expression of anger and struggle. We say clearly that
it is better and healthier for the country that the PPD, which is
plunged into so many acts of corruption, that the ministers of Ricardo
Lagos, the Concertación and the Alianza por Chile [the two competing
political blocs in the presidential election of 2006, both in favor of
neo-liberalism - Bachelet was the candidate of the Concertación],
should take on their responsibilities and ask pardon of Chile for the
harm they have caused.



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