After almost two weeks of partly violent protests has cancelled President Piñera, the APEC and the summit on climate change. A setback for Chile and for Latin America and a victory of violence over the policy, says Uta Thofern.
This is truly not a success of social protests, on the contrary. The cancellation of the two peaks is taken to ensure that the justified demands of the predominantly peaceful protesters to be faster or better met. Even if Chile’s President has sold his decision so – the truth is that His government steps back from the violence of a small but violent minority. A minority, of the majority of peaceful protesters has not yet detached, and which has also been found in the media coverage too little attention.
The hooded figures did not just throw stones and sticks, but in the meantime, targeted almost all metro stations in the capital, Santiago, destroyed supermarkets and shops, as well as multi-storey houses with many people in it on fire, plundered, they have won. To your account the greater part of the deaths of the last few weeks and also most of the injured goes to all of the previous information. And now, they have managed to lose the image of Chile in the world demo, to damage its economic relations and to ensure that the is likely to decline, which should be a fairer distribution of, now.
Uta Thofern directs the Latin America programs of the DW
The cancellation of the two large-scale events like the Chilean government a few savings, but the more than 1.2 billion dollars damage caused by the perpetrators of violence already, compensates for the. Much worse but the long term effects are. Who wants to invest in a country, the economy will have to cancel the summit because of the security problems in the handle? And who should once more come to the idea to hold a summit in Latin America? The COP25 got only a rejection of Brazil’s right-wing extremist President, the climate change does not exist, then an application of Costa Rica, who couldn’t cope with the small country alone. And now Chile.
No reason to be happy – for no one
The cancellation of the COP like hard welcome-bitten climate activists even, but actually, the question is whether, of all things, for the protection of the climate thousands of people every year have to fly around the world. However, the next question is, who’s going to take the urgent implementation of the climate protection objectives in Hand, if not the policy, and what it brings to an already high-cost summit planned burst. For gorge secret of joy is also in the case of climate activists, not a reason.
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Over a Million protesters in the Chilean capital
The events in Chile are rather a cause for concern for all those who want to enforce legitimate objectives, by peaceful demonstrations. Because the separation of soiled also your concern, provides for resistance in humans, which would show solidarity in principle, perhaps with your goals. Chile’s President Piñera has disastrous survey, but the proclamation of a state of emergency and the curfew found in a majority of Chileans consent – and this in spite of the dictatorship experience, the power of a military operation in Chile, are particularly problematic. Piñera took back the measures, as soon as the demonstrations were peaceful – with the result that the next day the Masked men appeared and violence, the images of the protests in a certain way.
Of spontaneous resentment, no speech can be, if the protesters fire accelerator, and a legitimate Protest ends where plunderer exercise. In Chile, a small minority has put on a specific state to a halt and a political decision enforced, which serves no one. If something is in the future, as a rule, is not only a threat to the demonstration quite seriously, but to the democracy.