Friday, 7 January 2022

Interested In A Swap Chile?

Gabriel Boric is set to become Chile’s youngest ever president which usually wouldn't cause too many waves this side of the Atlantic but the left are getting excited that they will have one of their own in power very much along the lines of the brilliant and successful Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.
In a country that had America's and the UK's favourite dictator and human rights violator, General Augusto Pinochet, the 35 year old self declared Socialist is looking to make some big changes in the nation that has been raped and pillaged by the West in the name of Capitalism.
In his success, Boric has the raised the ghost of Chavez in saying that he will deliver a programme that focuses on social justice, human rights, the environment support for LGBT rights and feminism while diminishing private participation in critical sectors including the highly lucrative lithium extraction, with a view to nationalising them and establish a universal publicly funded health care system along the lines of the British NHS, increase the minimum wage.
He is a firm believer in Palestinian rights, arguing that Israels actions are 'genocidal and murderous' and will look to ban the import of products made in Israeli settlements.
He could do far worse than look to emulate the magnificent success of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, a look around the mess of things that the current crop of right wing world leaders are making shows that, but i have yet to hear of anything that i don't like about him so i wonder if Chile is interested in doing a swap for our own terminally awful Prime Minister. Nah, thought not.

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