Can someone explain why this is happening? are Chileans the gusanos of Latin America or are they just white people?
i don’t know anything about chilean elections but i hope jeanette jara wins
Might as well ask why Argentinians voted the way they did. The answer is the same. Ben Norton did a good job in the latest Deprogram episode explaining the class roots of reactionary politics in South America.
Part of it is that Chile was founded as a settler colony and some Chileans identify with that
Mapuche people are very “present” in their resistance against the Chilean state. After all spanish is not an indigenous language of the americas.
I think people often forget that most countries in the Americas are settler-colonies because they don’t resemble the English/French settler-colonies. They approached race differently and have often been the victims of Western Imperialism so they occupy a strange middle ground between progress and reaction.
Yup, that’s why those countries seem to go from fascism to socialism and back between elections
He is going to sell each and every one of them a Toyota
