Chile is wrecking its international image, as well as everything else.
Even peaceful protests can become violent. The largest protests usually take place in central Santiago. Police can use tear gas and water cannons against protesters.
Avoid all demonstrations. Under Chilean law, you can be deported if you’re involved in or promote violent acts that could disturb social order or the system of government.
Nationwide protests often take place on significant dates, such as:
11 September (anniversary of the military coup)
29 March (Day of the Young Combatant)
1 May (Workers’ Day)
Its no coincidence that those 3 dates are commie holy days.
Según denuncian, supuestos “taxistas” les han cobrado enormes cifras de dinero, que han llegado hasta los 4 millones de pesos.
The authorities don’t care about Chile’s international image any more. Not that what they tried to project in the past was ever that close to the shabby reality.
Resurrecting this topic in view of this article, where Argentinean visitors express their concern over the amount of violence they have encountered recently in Chile.
“I hesitate to return during the holidays given the insecurity that continues to exist. Last season we saw repeated assaults at the exits of shopping centers. On a trip to the coastal area of La Serena I didn’t see any police on the route,” said a tourist from Mendoza who often traveled with his family and groups of friends to vacation in the Coquimbo region.
This visitor mentioned a feature seen over the last few years, but never mentioned in the local press; the lack of Police presence, not only on main roads, but also in urban areas.
Pre-estallido we used to see regular nightly patrols in town, but not any more.
My theory is that Carabineros still remember and resent the treatment they were submitted to by large sections of the population, including members of the present government, and these days refuse to do more than a bare minimum required to maintain Law & Order.
The tourism machine appears to be much more powerful than the embassy crime warnings and the media reports of increasing corruption, violence, and quotidian delinquency.
It will probably take a few sensational mass murders of bluehairs from Hoboken in top Chilean resorts to bring these matters to the attention of the usual blithely ignorant tourist.
Agree, I just came through SCL immigration on a Friday morning during shoulder season month October and there were A LOT of tourists. Line was a 1+ hour long.
Most leaving countries with random mass shooters, kids killing kids in schools, road rage, fentanyl mania and homelessness. Chile is safe in comparison.
Until they investigate on how long it takes to become even a temporary resident these days and actually watch T13 and Mega to see what the rest of the already resident in Chile see vs. the slant/narrative of the international English speaking media.
I think many, like me, will see T13 and Mega more as Hollywood style purveyors of fear than objective news media. What media in the Western world actually plays a pulsating sound track in the background of news stories to increase the tension and blood pressure of the viewers?
I don’t think the crime stats are being manipulated and as a 20+ year resident, you never heard the amount of dumped, cut up, tortured and burned bodies (yes most are between gangs but still…) and drive bys with collateral damage (an adolescent girl was shot just two nights ago trick o treatin) until about 6 years or so ago. And Chileans in the urban areas do stay indoors now even before dark, I do miss those all night bar days back in Santiago Centro circa early 2000s. School violence is more common now with students and the parents of those angels assaulting or threatening teachers. I have family here that live in working and middle class Quillicura and Independencia with a recently sold depto in Lo Espejo and to say that what they live and see are media scaremongering would be the exaggeration and not the other way around. And the amount of noisy legals and illegals and the problems that seem to go along with them invading and crowding their neighborhoods may actually be making the once tolerant Chileans into prejudiced and angry hosts.
Why do you suppose the television news plays a pulsating drumbeat meant to speed your heart up, as they present the news? I absolutely cannot watch because of the stress levels caused by that background drumbeat. Is Chile, like many countries in the world, being broken by unharnessed immigration, a liberal government and the use of fear as a population control mechanism?
Not to defend but perhaps only a portion of Chile MSM, but if it wasn’t for T13 and Mega during these Boric years, there would have been near 0 reporting of and opposition to the scandals, coverups and real crime wave taking place in Chile. TVN is State TV and CHV is die-hard far left. Of course, they all seem to use the same mind fuck formulas developed up north. Since I primarily get my Chile news from multiple X feeds, bio-bio and the local rag, I only mention those two stations as they surprised me when they finally started reporting on stuff that used to only show up on the X feeds. Now they have no qualms being a media opposition check to the excesses of the Boric government despite their Minstry of Truth and behind the scenes arm twisting and threats (see what the VTR program Sin Filtros went through).
Actually, which is to say at present, Chile has become less “safe” than the US. When we scratch the farcical surface, Chile is just another violent, crime-ridden Third World sudaca pesadilla. The homicide rate now exceeds that of the US. And robbery, including robbery with violence, at rates dozens of times those of the US. Add to that the uselessness of the police, the corruption of the nation’s attorneys, and the absurd nature of the judiciary.
Interesting stats. However, I think if they were compared with other countries with lax immigration policies and limp-wristed political parties soft on crime, you would find similar stats. I think that is going to turn around in the US. I foresee months of post electoral accusations of voter fraud and legal wrangling and finally by January 6th, a Supreme court decision ruling for the orange man. I love the fact that Chile uses countable ballots and not easily corrupted mail-ins or machines. And at some point, Chile, like many other nations, is going to make a sharp right turn. I dont know a single person who wants Boric to stay. Do you?
There is a core 20-25ish% that support Boric and/or the dedicated far left/commies no matter what, intelligence and common sense be damned. The right in Chile has fractured and are not united. You have the far right Kast haters who formed the Social Christian party, you have the well-organized Republicans primarily supported by the working and middle class, and then the Kast wary traitorous establishment right/center right UDI/RN ChileVamos block (EVOPOLI can no longer be considered part of the right) who have shown no principles and will run up to support commies even if their constituents are against it. With these fractures, there may never be a real turn.
One of the few good things that can be said about Chile is that the elections are looking pretty clean and the vote is counted very quickly and without realistic reasons to be challenged for fraud.
As far as Borexit, I was talking to one of my chums at the Ministry of Foreign Relations here today and while in his position he could not say directly against the Boric government, he was fairly confident that the people have learned something from the Bolshevism of October 2019 and what led to electing Comrade Boric. And that for at least of couple of weeks won’t be fooled again. But the quotidian delinquency is here to stay. It is simply the nature of Latin America, of which Chile is unquestionably an unexceptional member.
BTW, the homicide rate for Chilezuela for 2023 at about 6.3 per 100000 (6.7 for 2022) compares unfavorably to the 2023 number for the US at 5.5 per 100000 – which is just slightly below the world average (the Western Hemisphere is at about 14.6) .
My wife served as the leader of her table many years ago. In her analysis the possible weak point is when the final tallied numbers of each particular location is officially called in/reported to SERVEL headquarters at the end of the night. There appears to be no check that what is being reported by the on-site SERVEL official or recorded by SERVEL are the real numbers.
That being said, ++++ for paper ballots and the fact that Chile drafts real voters to man the tables and do the count and the count is done in front of whoever wants to watch.
Against my libertarian instincts, I also see the value of mandatory voting as it forces the real gritty value-adding working and business people and their wives juggling kids and other tasks to get their understandably cynical asses to the booth. Of course, recent “mandatory” elections indicate that this vote is a right leaning “silent majority” of sorts.
Also mandatory voting minimizes the possibility of organized fake voters coming in to take a real voter’s place in the voter book.
