In their latest wheeze, Boric and his commie pals have set up a “commission against disinformation”. If you cast your minds back to the plebiscite on the first draft of the new constitution, “disinformation” was the main excuse given for the outcome of that vote, as if implying that the “Rechazo” voters were incapable of logical reason and were all hoodwinked by the “facho” media. There is no indication of what they believe constitutes “disinformation”, although I suspect it’s something along the lines of “any information that makes us look bad”. Orwell would be very amused.
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Its the thin end of the wedge…
Vallejo stressed that the reports to be issued by the commission may serve as input for the creation of public policies in the future and that there were already several projects sponsored by both the opposition and the government to combat disinformation and false news.
With fines or jail time for the “seditious”?
Everything this government does is trending the same way, and there is nothing to stop them.
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Another piece from Infobae on the Boric problem. In Spanish but loosely translated as “Gabriel Boric, in his worst moment in Chile: chronology of a collapse.”
A bit of additional loose translation of the first part of that article.
His [Boric’s] insistence on keeping his BFF [ Giorgio Jackson ] in the cabinet, the Convenios case, the clamor for security and the failure of some of his emblematic reforms have characterised his second year in office. Only outside the country does he maintain a good image.
" The path was complicated from the beginning for President Gabriel Boric.But that was nothing compared to the turbulence the government has had in the last four months. Between March and April, the murders of carabineros Rita Olivares and Daniel Palma forced the government to focus on security.
"The right wing took the opportunity to speed up all the security-related bills that were snoozing in Congress, such as the Naín-Retamal Law, inspired by the two other murdered Pacos, which stiffened the penalties for those who attack Carabineros. However, the bill included indications which were, at least, questionable and which were debated at length by the government.
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"Boric had presented an ambitious tax reform to raise an additional 3.6 percentage points of the Gross Domestic Product by increasing corporate taxes on the largest corporations. But the bill failed in its first attempt and the lower house narrowly rejected the idea which the Boric administration wanted to use to finance programs that his government considered a priority: canceling the historical debt that the state owes to teachers and increasing the Universal Guaranteed Pension (Pensión Garantizada Universal).
"These days the government is trying to convince businessmen to establish a fiscal pact more limited than the previous one. Although the opposition has already said that the government must try [instead] to convince Congress.
Republican push
In May, the members of the new Constitutional Council were voted in. The Republican Party, which is slightly to the right of the UDI and Renovación Nacional – Chile’s traditional opposition parties – swept the vote, winning 23 of the 51 seats. The left does not even have veto power. Thus, the republican coalition has presented amendments to modify the text prepared by the commission of “constitutional experts” which, among other things, includes the elimination of severance pay for years of service or the constitutionalization [is that a word?] of features now much debated in Chile, including private healthcare and social security. Also included: reducing the number of deputies and allowing convicted prisoners over 75 years of age to be confined in their homes, which would benefit the inmates of Punta Peuco, the prison for former military members sentenced for crimes during the dictatorship.
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Within the left itself many hold the Boric government responsible for the constitutional collapse. And the same thing happened with the failure of the previous process…"
[There is more in the original article]
In related news, in a Biobio news piece, citing Pulso Ciudadano: Boric approval has fallen to about 27 percent, with disapproval at nearly 62 percent.
In that Pulso report, the concerns of those surveyed:
Corruption - number three problem in the country… people starting to notice…
Price increases/inflation - number two problem
Number one… drum roll… crime/“delincuencia”
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Nice translation of a decent summary.
Or at least they’re trying. But this initiative by Chile’s commie mini-malefica Camila Vallejo is running into opposition. Its going forward to the Tribunal Constitutional to decide whether its acceptable.
In the past, members of the TC have been physically attacked by the commies when they didn’t like its decisions. And their mamarracho constitution would have eliminated this balancing mechanism, had it been approved.
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Since these nominally-independent entities notoriously favour the incumbent government, it will be interesting to see what they decide.
Looks as though Wikipedia now has an English language page which is tracking the Caso Convenios corruption issues, making this a little easier for those in dialect restricted mode:
Meanwhile, one of the many convenios-related scandals involves a certain top-heavy tart from the Concepción area whose case is appropriately enough becoming known as Lingeriegate (Caso Lenceria). CL media have been covering recent developments but not much in English.
In the vernacular:
I believe that the actual greeting in the confrontation was something closer to “Return the money you shameless bitch!”
Even for the normal corruption in this country, the Caso Lencería is revealing just how dirty the Left has become, and how openly
Out of curiosity (my Spanish is fluent) I have been looking for articles about the whole Convenios situation in the international press and there’s almost nothing. It seems like Boric has always been feted by many publications along with Irina, so i guess they don’t want to report anything negative about his government.
Here’s an article from a foreign news source I have found that mostly approximates the truth.
Chile has joined that list of countries favoured by progressive lefties who steadfastly ignore inconvenient truths that contradict their…(sighs)…Narrative.
What is more shocking is the threat that was fortunately recorded by her from the bigger guy in charge of that local convenio $cam.
Literally, “how much does a Colombian (killer) cost?” — (IOW, shut your mouth perra, or else…)
I’ve seen a few things, but they are pretty limited considering the scope this is starting to take on.
More from Infobae on the evolving Convenios scandal, listing those who have been deposed
Article in Spanish but herewith a quick and dirty and somewhat amplified translation of the first part:
Caso Convenios: Gabriel Boric’s nightmare: one by one, who are the officials who have already resigned
Five leaders of the ruling coalition have already left office due to the scandal relating to government funds diverted to foundations friendly to the Boric government
.[Boric’s] … popularity had already taken a hit after a difficult first year in office in which almost nothing went as planned. But everything got even worse when, almost two months ago, details of various agreements signed by his government officials began to emerge, showing diversion of public funds, without any control, to foundations directed by the Boric government or people close to them.
Until Saturday, June 17, Carlos Contreras was the ministerial regional secretary of Housing and Urbanism in the Antofagasta Region. Was… because that day he resigned after it was revealed that, under his charge, he had signed three direct agreements for a total of half a million dollars with the foundation “Democracia Viva” for work in rural camps. This was just the beginning of the scandalous “Caso Convenios”.
- “Democracia Viva” was legally represented by Daniel Andrade, former partner of Congresswoman Catalina Pérez, one of the figures of the so-called Democratic Revolution party, founded by Giorgio Jackson, current Minister of Social Development, whose future in office now hangs in the balance because of this case.*
… there is more… Read the original article
Yet another case.
La seremi de Culturas de esa región es Patricia Mix (Comunes), licenciada en Filosofía, cuentacuentos, ex directora de la Fundación Ludoferia, hija del actor Víctor Mix y hermana de la diputada Claudia Mix, quien tiene amplias redes familiares en el Gobierno.
Diputada Claudia Mix has Five family members incrusted in public service. This sort of blatant nepotism commenced in the Lagos presidency, and has greatly increased lately.
It just keeps getting better. Or worse, if you don’t view the Boric scandals as entertainment . The guilty now trying to flee the country but believed to be hiding out in Mapuche territory!
Cowboys and Indians, Chilito-style.
In Spanish but here is a taste of it:
Scandal in Chile keeps growing: president of a foundation that received US$ 1.4 million from the government is on the run
The corporation headed by Jaime Huincahue is said to have used the money to pay debts of two institutes it owns.
Quick and dirty translation with snarky comments:
Santiago: Jaime Huincahue Melipil is 57. Before forming the Kimün corporation he was an advisor to the National Corporation for Indigenous Development (Conadi) between 2011 and 2014, during the first government of Sebastián Piñera.
In December 2019, says the Ex-Ante media, the activities of Kimün officially began. In January 2021 he acquired the Instituto Profesional and the Centro de Formación Técnica Los Lagos, which the Universidad de Los Lagos had put up for sale. Huincahue became rector of both campuses.
Separately, last December Kimün signed an agreement with the Regional Government of Los Lagos, which gave him 1.4 million dollars for a program to clean up the legal titles of several properties in the hands of small- and medium-sized farmers in the region.
[… you can already see where this is going…]
One of the people in charge of the project was Diego Ancalao. He is known for a failed presidential attempt, which collapsed once it was confirmed that the signatures he had presented, and which supported his candidacy, had been validated by a notary who was in fact deceased.
And not only that, Huincahue sold the professional institute and the technical training center to the Indigenous Development and Leadership Institute Foundation, directed among others by… Ancalao himself.
This tangled web led the regional governor, Patricio Vallespín, to terminate the contract with Kimün early. The corporation was obliged to return the money that was not committed, which amounted to US$1.2 million.
But in an interview with El Llanquihue, Arnoldo Ñanculef, vice-president of the Kimün Corporation, raised the alarm by declaring that “we as a corporation have no way to return the money, because this corporation managed the money for us. Here I want to make a distinction: the responsibility of those who signed those documents on behalf of Kimün lies with Mrs. Rosalía Currimil (treasurer) and Jaime Huincahue (president). So they are responsible for those resources”.
[… oh what a tangled web we weave…]
Ñanculef added that Huincahue had confessed to him that much of the money had been used to cover debts and working capital at the vocational institute and the technical training center.
Diego Ancalao was arrested for money laundering, fraud, and swindling the Treasury. He is currently in custody in the Alto Bonito prison in Puerto Montt.
On August 4, an arrest warrant was issued against Jaime Huincahue for the crime of swindling, but since that day he has been a fugitive from justice…
[There is more – read the original article and see just how far Chile has fallen now that its corruption is being recognized]
On the old Allchile forum, Admin Charles often opined in favour of decentralization, in giving the Regions more power. At the time, I wrote that this would be an error that would only read to greater corruption.
I was reminded of those days by an excellent summary by sometimes forumite Tomas Bradanovic of the current scandals. In it, he says:
La mayoría de los fraudes se han producido en los recién creados Gobiernos Regionales. Tenemos una primera generación de gobernadores regionales electos reemplazando a los antiguos intendentes, que eran nombrados por el gobierno central. Ni siquiera esperaron un poco antes de empezar a robar.
I don’t pretend to be smarter than anyone else, so how come Chile’s much-better-informed legislators didn’t foresee the dangers of dejar gatos cuidando la carnicería? Unless it was part of a plan…
Bump.
Noticed in today’s media that the Boric disapproval has reached 62.2 percent. “Approval” at just 25.5 percent.
That hardcore 20-25% Burric lovers will never go away as long as the $$$$$ train to 100,000 new government employees, trough feeding government financed NGOs employees, the new batch of lifetime pension receivers and all the benefitted families to the above continues. Such a strategy insures he will never fall below Piñera’s numbers even though many have realized how less bad it was under that old man’s watch.
Just in case you were unsure, here’s the President of not-all Chileans nailing his commie colors to the mast in a choice example of cynical humbug…
President Boric wrote the following message: “The visceral anti-communism of some political sectors and their related media in our country is too evident. I don’t know another party that receives so many ad hominem attacks and lies. I, at least, have no doubt about the democratic and social commitment of the Chilean PC.”
He must mean a similar type of Democracy to that of the GDR, the German Democratic Republic so fondly recalled by crypto-commie Bachelet. Its most memorable symbols were the Berlin Wall and the sinister STASI secret police.
As to “attacks and lies”, the left did pretty well against Piñera y Co.
Article in today’s Infobae:
In rough translation: Gabriel Boric halfway through his mandate, worn out and without fulfilling his key reforms: “His problem is that nobody is happy with him”.
" Chilean president completes two years in power on Monday with weakened leadership, an approval rating going nowhere and with more recognition outside the country than internally…two problem-ridden years in power, marked by constitutional change failure and the deadliest wave of wildfire in the country’s history, and the main items of his ambitious agenda of change unfulfilled…
" Outside the country he is more appreciated for his attempts to seek reconciliation after a long period of polarization," reported Anna Ayuso, researcher at CIDOB, an international relations think tank in Barcelona, for news agency EFE .
Jaime Abedrapo, political scientist at the University of San Sebastian, told EFE, “After the failed constitutional reform, the government was left with no concrete plan, other than three or four specific reforms, none of which it has not been able to advance.”
There is more to the article, a lot of it the result of inaccurate perceptions by foreign observers who tend to be far too charitable with Boric, but there is no escaping the message that Boric has been a miserable failure.
Ugh, and now because it’s been two years, there’s constant gaslighitng from Boric and his ministers about how the country is in such a better place than two years ago. They never acknowledge their role in contributing to the deterioration of the country in the so-called estallido. Of course not, they live in Narnia or the Mundo Bilz y Pap as some say. For me the only thing that is better is that the peso is weak and I earn dollars. Honestly, I can’t think of anything else.