As the article states, more than 80,000 “public servants” have multiple work contracts, ie they receive multiple salaries.
..more information may be needed to identify or rule out an irregularity, as in the case of a professional with up to 11 simultaneous fee-based contracts in municipalities and total monthly salaries exceeding $16 million.
Note the plural - “monthly salaries”. Sometimes it seems as if everyone here is “on the take” in one way or another.
If there is anything good that can associated with the years of the Boric government, it may be that Chile and the world are finally having to fully face up to the enormous degree of corruption that has long existed here, that Chile is just another Latin American country, that 2019 was not just a fluke.
Of course, it may be another decade or two before Lonely Planet and the other booster publications start to see the light.
We might want to add a word to the essential vocabulary for the Recién Llegados and those considering a move here:
apitutado,-a (n) Someone blessed with “contacts,” typically within an organization providing employment, who can count on receiving favors such as a job, special treatment, benefit, or contract, etc., usually illicitly.
Example of usage: ¿Cómo lograste conseguir aquel contrato?
Ans: Estoy apitutado con la jefa, po, pololeaba con ella. Igual que tu jodido vecino que entró con pituto. (I’ve got an in with the boss, I was dating her. Just like your fooking neighbor who got in through connections).
Verb: apitutar. - To get a job or other benefit for someone through connections, usually in an illicit manner.
Usage: “Diputado apitutó a una amiga en el congreso.”
“Alcalde de Cerro Navia Mauro Tamayo apitutó a su amante con sueldo millonario y le pagó un viaje a Dubai con platas municipales…”
“Gobierno apitutó a Jorge Baradit, integrante del comando de Jeannette Jara, como director del Parque Cultural de Valparaíso.”
“Boric apitutó a Nicolás Eyzaguirre en el Consejo Técnico de Inversiones, encargado de proponer y pronunciarse sobre cómo se deben invertir los fondos…”
Our local Sodimac is always replete with people buying overpriced Chinese tat, the streets have lots of brand-new vehicles circulating, and as eeuunikkeiexpat has observed, foreign flights are full of Chilean holidaymakers.
But there is nothing happening in the seriously depressed local economy to account for this exuberant consumerism - unless you work for the government, that is.
And to think that the big theme of the clowns currently in charge during the estallido was “equality” - except that they seem to believe that some are more equal than others.
Yeah that is sickening
The morally superior generation of politicians, according to Kenneth!
Corruption seems to be more rampant everywhere in the world. Perhaps there is a subliminal collective hunch that humanity is nearing the end of its cycle and this is causing the morally defunct to try to reap as many rewards as possible before the end. Kind of like the end of the Roman empire, except in this case it is the extinction phase of humanity.
This is why I am not invited to parties.
Do enjoy the show though, especially with popcorn and adult beverage, you are not alone. 
