Well, 2010 is a special year to Chile, because this little country celebrates his “bicentenario”, in other words, Chile signed their independence 200 years ago. Then, this year we have to celebrate and laugh and sing and pretend that we live in a free and independent country. The government has been specially focused in that “show” trough this year 2010. But I think this year it’s not a great year, because a horrible earthquake, because miners trapped in a mine and because we are not really independent.
First, in February 27, 2010 a horrible earthquake attacked our country and many people are without house and they are living in poor conditions. They can’t celebrate, because they are wait help still. They don’t want show for their tragedy. Now they are forgotten by most part of country.
Second, 33 miners trapped in a mine for many days. They fortunately were rescued by volunteers and workers, but our government took this opportunity to improve his popularity and this tragedy overshadowed other important news, for example the hunger strike of “mapuche”, the student’s fights or many other issues that any politicians have quietly.
Third, why we can’t celebrate this “bicentenario”? Well, we must celebrate 200 years or independence, but is really Chile an independent country? I think it is not true. 200 years ago we were part of kingdom of Spain, but now we are part of the big economics and cultural empires from the world. That empires control our lives, our studies including our language. They take decisions and Chile is Country completely dependent of them. And many countries from Latin-America are like Chile, very dependent. The, what are we celebrating? Maybe we can celebrate and believe in a beautiful and nice country, but it`s not true.
Finally I want say that people from Chile must wake up and think how improve this country, how to eliminate injustices, how to eliminate poverty and how to eliminate the dependence of powerful people and people from North. But I think these responses must be from the Chileans and not from one person.
