What happened in Chile since October 18th has changed
everyone’s life in many ways. Personally, the first weeks was very emotional,
it was like the life just stop and the only thing that matter was be
participate and support the revolt and the social movement, go to march and
express our discontent.
The best thing, it was see my town, Buin, so commited,
joined and motivated with the revolt. I never believed people like my
neighbours get out with the childrens and do “cacerolazo”, and sing out loud
during the curfew.
During the first weeks, we met in “Plaza de armas” of the
town, and all the social organisations like No + AFP, feminist collectives and
specially the student movement, led by secondary students, told and explain us
all the things that the people demand and why. In the afternoons, we reunited
in assemblies and “cabildos”, or went to march for the principal streets of the
town.
Until this week, the specific things that we has been
achieve as a local community is that the
feminist collectives sent a written petition to the Mayor and the City hall,
and the past December 15th, the
organisation "Unidad social de Buin" made a plebiscite because the Mayor refused to do it.
Even so, the bad side about all this, is the savage
repression to the protestors and the people who participate in any way. I had
never seen so violence in this town, the police throwing tear gas or shooting
rubber bullets to people, with childrens and old people there.
I know that what happened here cannot be compared with all
the violence in the country, and is very
dissappointing that until now, only the ex minister Chadwick was punished for
all the violence and repression, all the eye mutilation, all the deads, the
injured, the sexual violence, all the human rights abuses. And the worst part, is the government doesn’t recongnise none of
them.
So, although we have won some things like plebiscites for a
new Constitution or agreements, the revolt still continue, because many things have to change and solve.
