By Alfredo Grieco
(Revista Veintitres)
When the celebrated Chilean right, looks like a stylized version of the left . Because Chile is proud to be a country without populism. The campaign-tecnocumbia little aggressive, very little rhythm, little catchy, sounded on the assumption of the first president elected rightist Chile since 1958.
The flags that waved, produced in a workshop of presidential candidate Sebastián Piñera, looked new and clean, and the renewal that the employer has taken on his party National Renovation, and it seems more urgent than ever after the earthquake.
Consistent with the busts of Augusto Pinochet who took to the streets with his election victory, Piñera announced that it will keep the army patrolling the streets indefinitely, and will extend the "state of disaster." "Let's leave the military deployed first to guarantee public order, "he said in a radio interview megamagnate President, owner of Lan Chile, which took the national leadership on Thursday.
"The work of the military must go much further, since it essentially is an institution that has a number of very appropriate tools and instruments in times of catastrophe," he argued. Piñera, after profit for the first time in condemning the government of the coalition that gave him power and person of socialist President Michelle Bachelet, of the alleged slow pace of the military took to the streets, valued the contribution of the military to the disaster, which struck an area of \u200b\u200b1,600 kilometers.
"The military logistics, a skilled, trained and disciplined. They also have equipment that can recover much faster track, "spoke the man of their own fortune in excess of one billion dollars, which never made a bad deal in life and that holds Fortune magazine among the names the richest in the world.
The deployment of the military, the government initially resisted by some ministers, then became the repeated cries of civilians, mayors and radios, especially in the most devastated areas. The waves of looting of shops revealed the social debt of Chile, a country of 17 million de habitantes, con ingresos per cápita de 14.400 dólares, pero donde el promedio de la población subsiste con unos 300 dólares al mes.
La incapacidad de la policía para contener a quienes buscaban en la emergencia provisiones que el Estado tardaba en suministrarles obligó finalmente a la presidenta Michelle Bachelet a ordenar el despliegue de las fuerzas armadas en las calles.
Pero esto ocurrió recién unas 36 horas después de la tragedia.Tanques blindados y camiones militares con contingentes de tropas uniformadas ingresaron en las ciudades que se habían vuelto más caóticas y lograron imponer el orden, en algunos sectores empobrecidos a tiros. Pero las armed forces were also strongly questioned by the sum of several errors, despite the billions of dollars in modernizing since 1990, when occurred the return to democracy.
The biggest mistake was that they blamed the Navy to assure the country that there was no risk of tsunamis. Only an hour later, waves of up to fifteen meters away were hundreds of homes and dozens of villages.
Many wonder what the country serving hundreds of A1 and A2 Leopard tanks, dozens of F16 fighter jets and a Navy entirely new, if not able to show in its own task force territorio.Chile apparently had everything. Tax savings of $ 20,000 million, controlled inflation, a strong recovery in progress and privileged links with major economic groups, among which are of course the new president Piñera.
The record proportions earthquake and subsequent tsunami that ravaged the country since February 27, the scenery changed dramatically from what the owner Chilevisión Colo Colo and longed for show more or less apoteótico. The next three years, priority will be rebuilding.
The first days after the earthquake, Piñera even resisted the evidence. "My government has fulfilled its commitments," he said and denied that readecuaría your program. But hours later succumbed to the enormity of the damage caused by nature, amounting to losses of 4,800 million dollars only in hospitals and public works. Nobody knows yet what the cost to repair schools and homes as well.
An initial estimate of two million speaks damnificados.La crisis, still in its early emergency health and food, forced who proclaimed himself the prophet of change during the election campaign to become a conservative.
And in this case it meant retaining a center-left government: Piñera, after taking office on March 11, had to ask President Michelle Bachelet to allow him to keep his administration.
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