Chilean students’ leader rejoices with WSJ calling her a “red-diaper baby”
Camila Vallejo, Chile’s iconic students’ federation vice-president replied in her twitter to a scathing editorial from the Wall Street Journal saying the critique was evidence that Chilean public opinion is ‘becoming conscious’ and is ‘advancing’.
In the article “Chile’s Cautionary Lesson for the Americas,” The Wall Street criticizes the Chilean student movement and describes the left wing sentiments in Chile as “an invitation to tyranny”.
The principal target of the critique is the increasingly iconic student leader Camila Vallejo, a self proclaimed communist and admirer of Fidel Castro, who is described as a “red-diaper baby” brought up by supporters of former Chilean President Salvador Allende.
Author Mary Anastasia O’Grady describes Chile as a “poster child for liberal economic reform” but argues that the country is “desperately short of voices able to defend the morality of the market and the sanctity of individual rights”.
“How it hurts them that Chile is becoming conscious! This is a sign of us advancing” said Camila in her twitter.
The editorial also blasts President Sebastian Piñera for his inability to deal with these social movements and stand up to “environmentalists” and leftist political leaders.
“The right too often cedes the moral high ground to its proponents. Mr. Piñera is among the culprits,” the author explains. “His reactive half measures designed to satisfy the moderate elements of the equality brigades are undermining Chilean freedom.”
The political system lacks voices that defend the morality of the market and the sanctity of individual rights”, underlines TWSJ. The moral high ground is in the hands of left wing groups that support dictatorial governments such as that of Fidel Castro in Cuba.
The article finishes stating, “The technocrats might be congratulated for holding free university education at bay considering the political pressures. But the reason Camila Vallejo has them on the run in the first place is the more fundamental problem. If Mr. Piñera wants to solve it he will have to become an advocate for freedom.”
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Couldn't say the same of WSJ. The quality of US newspapers sinks at the same rate it becomes more partisan.
A big hug to my Chilean brothers and sisters
Referring to her as a red-diaper baby is childish and undermines the point of article that nobody is holding her ideas to account. Arguing against her ideas is just part of free speech.
We should be glad when our (the world's) young people are interested in politics: in a world where senior diplomats/politicians feel it is acceptable to trot out trite and childish slogans like “give peace a chance”, intellectual political engagement should be applauded: even if you disagree with the argument made.
@1 Wasn't she on the Time “100 people who mattered list”: I don't think you can generalise to the entire US media. WSJ is a special case of free market fundamentalism, similar to the Economist in the UK. All press has an editorial line in the opinion section...
“How it hurts them that Chile is becoming conscious!
This is a sign of us advancing”.
No, Forgetit.
This is neither mature nor lucid.
It contains in both sentences unacceptably ambiguous exhortations typical of the incompletely educated, left-wing young 'revolutionaries'.
This is, of course, the language of young presidents-in-waiting in South America.
Let's hope she learns better use of language in her rise to high office, for I doubt that her tweeting inadequacies are simply those of poor editorial translation.
No, not very mature.
It's not only mature, it's also TRUE, as your post is a proof of :)
Anyway, most of Chileans (left-middle-right) agree that we need to drastically increase our quality of public education to the level of an EU country. It's an excellent investment for our countries future. Corporate taxes are being increased and loopholes closed. The new laws being passed through congress will finally place Chile in the first world of public education.
Also, it's highly probable that Michelle Bachelet will return to the presidency and she's very solid even as her background was far to the left, she's shown herself to be more of a moderate socialist. Let's hope that Camila Vallejo becomes a part of the government cabinet in the next election. She seems to have a bright future.
(We old navy guys like Bachelet as she's been a very benevolent godmother of one of our Scorpène class submarines. When there was initial debate, she stood firmly behind the strategy of fully arming them with Exocet anti-ship missiles.)
You aren't turning the cloak are you? Ask Bachelet what she thinks of Pinochet :)
I'm glad that you as an out-spoken conservative and orator for Pinochets cause can appreciate the work of a socialist, especially a socialist whose father was tortured and killed by the junta you defend :)
It's just like Marx and Engels predicted.
All that from an update in Twitter?
That crystal ball of your must be really amazing :)
That's the problem with you guys, you are like some women I've met, hearing one thing, and making up an alternative reality in your heads, based on the words you heard :)
It's all caused by the guilt of you abandoning Argentina and you feel you're left out of the La Campora rising which you're too cowardly to join in on, so you turn to the keyboard to somehow make up for it. Either way, you just end up looking like a sad-furker who abandoned his homeland Argentina because it was sh!te, venting online through a thin veil of lies.
It's a shame you can't deal with reality, but I guess that's not my issue. Enjoy, furkface.
See? That's what I'm talking about. Alternative reality.
Now, not only did you make one up for yourself, now you want to make one up for me aswell :)
So tell me, are all your other “truths” equally analyzed and “baselined” as your truth that I should be from Argentina? :)
That's hilarious :)
red or not!
Philippe
The only excuse student leaders have is that they are young and idealstic, as well as inexperienced and immature. What you expect from children really. Its the grown ups who carry on spouting this sort of left wing rubbish - the adult followers of Chavez and Kirchner - who are really deluded.
According to Karl Marx, communism is an ideology where there is no state, everybody produces what they can and take what they need, there is no money whatsoever involved. Now, tell me of 1 (one) nation that experienced communism :)
#28 I would like to take him somewhat seriously, but to do so would affront his wretched intelligence. BTW: He's proven in previous posts that he's not from Uruguay. (If you read into his foolishness, one quickly realizes the numerous dim-witted contradictions.)
Some of us lived through the cold war and have friends who had the misfortune to live in countries under the control of the Soviet Union, or in the mess that was cultural revolution China. You are too young to remenber that, so I suggest you shut up.
Define communism then (a hint, definition doesn't change with age) :)
Have you read the manifest? No, well, then don't talk about communism, because you have no clue what you are talking about :)
Is trade bad also? Seems like a very basic human characteristic to do so. Even cave men did so judging by prehistoric finds. And whats the difference between trading an item for money or another item?
I think most would agree that theres a huge difference between trading an item for money - and the banks and money men playing roulette with that money.
If you aspire to a pure system of communism/self sufficiency than I suppose you need to make a start by stop using the computer.
I never said I was a communist nor that I agreed with its ideology, please quote a post where I do that :)
I'm merely telling you that you don't have a clue wha you are on about :)
Have you? Obviously you know all about bills of lading (that's what a manifest is), but I suspect you have never read serious books on the history of the 20th century or studied the history of Stalin's persecution of the kulaks, the show trials in the 30s and 40s, and the idiocy of Mao's great leap forward? Are you aware of what happened in Pol pot's Cambodia? Have you read Solzhenitsin or Koestler? If you have, and you still believe that communism is a good thing, then all I can say is that you deserve to live in a communist paradise like that created by Pol Pot.
Oh, and by the way I studied modern european history and politics, so unlike you I do have a passing knowledge of what communism means in practice. If your knowledge of it is limited to the communist manifesto, then you are sadly ignorant.
Of course I read about european history, and actually, the only place in the world (and in history) that experienced proper communism was the Commune of Paris :) Check it out ;)
I would never defend those characters you mention, but blaiming their actions on communism would be like blaiming the ideology of capitalism for the atrocities made in SA, Africa, Middle East and so on and so on...
I tend not to read science fiction... But either way, I still haven't said I defend communism :)
As GreekYoghurt wrote today: “Here Freud would suggest [he's] using the pathological [schizophrenic] defense mechanism of [adolescent] distortion... using a combination of dissociation and identification in order to reinforce [his] own perceptions of being not-argentine.”
Camillas words ……….. :
*** “Cómo les duele cuando Chile toma conciencia, esto es señal de que avanzamos” ***.
Are directly extrapolated and inferred from:
1) An old Arab proverb….:
“Los perros ladran…., la caravana pasa”
2) A (wrong) quote of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra’s Don Quijote de la Mancha …..:
”Ladran, Sancho…., señal de que cabalgamos”.
3) Goethe’s poem “Kläffer”….:
“Und seines Bellens lauter Schall. Beweis't nur, daß wir reiten.”
Well chosen, classical and lucid words from a classic cultivated young Latinamerican beauty with her hearth and mind in the right place.
Stop being such overmature , insufferable Briton :-)
Trust me, I know a lot of poor Chileans, her brother for one, who think they got the shaft because there was no free college for them. When my wife explains how she actually studied a LOT and ended up paying next to nothing, they automatically think somehow she knew somebody, etc. Chile is advancing due to some very hard-working people and a shitload of copper. I love Chile, absolutely love it. But, trust me when I say that there are many many Chileans who aren't exactly real go-getters. There's still a large demographic that feels entitled to a lot of things for free.
And
“Piojas resucitadas”...........
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovp6QodjhLI
All hail - Guzz has again spoken to us mortals with his ultimate wisdom
I have tried in the past to give Guzz the benefit of doubt but it does not work.
I think we all understood what you meant by earning a scholarship, your country is not the only one where people think everything should be given without having to earn it.
Good luck to your wife
Your wife is Russian ?
I am certain who is Dlinniy , Krasiviy, Meladoy !....doesnt she ....
Is she always Vesyoliy ?
and why do they get so much publicity?
Its totally different in Europe.
The turnip says:
“The road map for leftists/Socialists/Communists is the same everywhere and everytime............ The Socialists seize power and then institute totalitarian conditions involving the squashing of dissent and often mass murder.....”
I say:
Everytime and everywhere I return to Scandinavia and northern Europe (Finland, Sweden, Norway, Island, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Austria etc.etc.etc.) it is the same............ Those Socialist totalitarian conditions, that squashing of dissent and all that mass murder.....
Wesley Mouch, you are not just a Turnip.... You are an ignorant turnip!
Could your gentle reply be ... Blagadaryu Spasipa ..!
UK is in Northern Europe though, thanks for asking. So is Iceland.
You must remember history where the National Socialists, Soviet Socialists, Chinese Socialists, Vietnamese Socialists and Cuban Socialists have liquidated over 100 million people for failure to go along. But as Stalin said the detah of millions is merely a statistic. More close to home CFK stamps on freedom, Castro jails anyone who disgarees and Chavez steals all that he can. Granted the incompetent sclerotic Socialists in current Europe have not killed enough to make a glorious revolution but theirs is a soft tyranny with an upcoming coming economic collapse in the wind. I suppose if you are a parasite getting the free lunch you may favor this.
As I said before; an Ignorant turnip........
As the main picture is in the news
[Is she pretty or not ]
Lighten up .
.
it's good to have you back together on the same topic.
Just like the old days.
Still in the UK so some of my recent postings may not have the nuance of being on the spot. So keep posting information as well as opinion; I value it.
Regards,
Geoff
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