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Reddit mentions of Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
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Found 1 comment on Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent:

u/ozzraven · 2 pointsr/chile

This book seems to be the starting point to understand southamerican politic history:

http://www.amazon.com/Open-Veins-Latin-America-Centuries-ebook/dp/B009AC31TG/ref=la_B000AP701M_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1412254480&sr=1-1

This is a great Book by Heraldo Muñoz

http://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Shadow-Under-Augusto-Pinochet-ebook/dp/B0097D7FSQ/ref=la_B000ARBF4S_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1412254449&sr=1-1

Maybe you should ask some specific questions so people here could share their views.

In a nutshell, Chilean society is quite divided by the events related to Pinochet's dictatorship: Supporters, Critics, and people who couldn't care less about it and want desperately to move on.

The only decent source of good political articles is Ciper (On the left side of things). Economics:Diario Financiero (on the right...)

My personal view, is that the privatizacion of basic services like electricity, water, phone has been negative in the long run, but in a way it was unavoidable. Privatizations in general seemed to help to improve the quality of service in some cases, and helped the economy. The problem is that we don't seem to be very good with our anti monopoly regulations, so when some company gets big, they can be very soon seting the rules of the whole industry . (it happens a lot in retail).

The biggest fiasco for me, has been our pension system: AFP's.
They are being promoted as a wonderful system all around the world, but it's full of holes and problems: Our society has a huge concentration of wealth. 70% of our society earns less than U$20.000 a year, so they can't have really the possibility of extra savings. AFP's are designed to work around big saving investments, people from that 70% of the society will NEVER reach the number they require to have a minimal decent pension. AFP's can lose your money in their investemts but they take their yearly fee anyway ("Comisions"), so they never lose.

The current educational reforms are the result of what it was to have 30 years of private education which increased the gap between classes, because good education was available to the people who could afford it, so it didn't really promoted better opportunities, and a lot of politicians got rich thanks to it (Ironically, a good number of them, from the left wing).

We shouldn't get back to a system where everything is state regulated, but that won't happen anyway. The two biggest political blocks from the left and right are quite fine with out actual system.


Finally I must say that Australian wine is really nice too.
and a word of advice: bring some Vegemite and TimTams.
There's nothing like it over here.