Two hundred years: Nothing to celebrate

This year is the Chile’s bicentennial and therefore we had had a great party: a lot of concerts and a lot of shows at the streets. Our authorities and politician say us that we must to celebrate because our country is now 200  years of independent life. However people must think about our country is as good as the authorities say. I think the answer is the reality is another thing, because our country and our society are very bad and therefore we don’t have anything to celebrate. We must to make better a lot of things. Our society is very unfair and two hundred years ago the reality was the same. The question must be: Is Chile better than since 200 years ago? 

We must only to observe the streets in Santiago to understand that Chile is a very unfair country. A lot of poor people walk through the streets, because their salaries are not enough to live with dignity. In Chile the minimum salary is very low because the law protects the interests of the businessmen and not the interests of the common people. This is the perfect country for the businessmen because they can earn a lot of money. And the worst is that the politicians in the parliament allow this with very unfair laws. In Chile there are a few persons that win a lot of money and millions of people, which have almost anything.

Another thing to not celebrate is that the public education and the public health are really bad. The public schools are industries of cheap workforces because the education of the students of these schools is really bad and therefore they don’t have the possibility to go to the university. In the other hand, the public health is also very bad. People die waiting for a surgery; however the rich people have enough money to pay a private hospital.    

In the politic sphere we are not good either. We have a constitution which was made in dictatorship. This constitution was written without the consent of people and it represents the interests of a very little group of the population, this group has the economic and political powerful. Also this constitution doesn’t permit to the people to take an active part in the political decisions. We can write a vote every 4 years, but we cannot actually participate in the political decisions.               

In conclusion we can say that our country hasn’t anything to celebrate. We have an injustice history and therefore we don’t must to celebrate. We must think about the history of our country and about the present of our society. Maybe so we can get the things a little better.

 Maybe celebrating is very fun, bat the bad side is that party doesn’t permit us to see that the reality is different as the authorities say.