Chilean student leader launches book and considers entering formal politics

Monday, January 16th 2012 - 03:56 UTC

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The popular student leader and vice president of the University of Chile’s Student Federation (FECh), Camila Vallejo launched her new book “Podemos cambiar el mundo” or “We can change the world” at a central park in the capital Santiago de Chile on the second day of the centenary celebration of the Communist Party, Fiesta de los Abrazos. Read full article

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Think
TWIMC

As I said before………………………..:

3 Think Aug 28th, 2011
May I present:
Camila Vallejo Dowling....................
Today: Elected President of FECH
Tomorrow: Elected President of Chile
Venceremos
http://en.mercopress.com/2011/08/27/pinera-yields-and-calls-on-students-and-teachers-to-a-round-of-negotiations
Jan 16th, 2012 - 05:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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wesley mouch
Ms Vallejo is a Socialist/Communist who wants someone else to provide her a free education, lunch, etc. These policies have failed repeatedly but are held very much in esteem by the kook organizations such as the Guardian, mainstream media, etc. We are witnessing the worldwide collapse of Socialism for the second time as socialist scheme come undone because they cannot pay the ridiculous debts they have accumulated.
Jan 16th, 2012 - 12:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ManRod
An elected comunist president in Chile... good Joke.
Even in their peak power times it was a miracle to get Allende to power (and Allende called himself a socialist, not communist!)
Jan 16th, 2012 - 01:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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xbarilox
So this is what her “love for poor Chilean people” was all about, promotion for her book :)
Jan 16th, 2012 - 05:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
(3) Manrod

She is young, clever, pretty and communist.
She will, eventually, become mature, brilliant, ravishing, socialist…….. and President.

Besides………….
Allende’s election was no miracle…
Not even a surprise…...
Anybody with “2 dedos de frente”could see it coming.

I see that you are Chileno-Alemán……………
Auf welche Deutsche Schule bist du gegangen?
Jan 16th, 2012 - 05:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Marcos Alejandro
Otto Krause Technical School? :-)
(Paseo Colón Avenue and Chile Street}
Jan 16th, 2012 - 06:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
(6)
Tenía que ser........
Bostero y del Krause!

El Think
Ex CNBA
Bolivar 263
Jan 16th, 2012 - 08:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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xbarilox
CNBA, how surprising is this, NOT!
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Marcos Alejandro
7 :-)))) Bostero yes, gallina never!

I took only one special class at the Krause, great school as CNBA.
Saludos
Jan 16th, 2012 - 10:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ManRod
5 Think (#)
” (3) Manrod
She is young, clever, pretty and communist.
She will, eventually, become mature, brilliant, ravishing, socialist…….. and President.“
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Indeed, she's young and beautiful... she will become what mostly communist ”icons” become, a marketing product bringing in alot of $ like Che's image...
Become mature? Maybe... Communists mostly become mature sooner and later, and that mainly means they become pragmatic and take distance from their past utopies.
Best example for that is Nicolás Eyzaguirre, former comunist politican and then healed and refined minister of Finance in Chile, and now nothing less then the Director of the International Monetary Fund of the Western Hemisphere. Not bad, huh?

Nicolas as communist daydreamer in the 70ies (yes, the first one with moustache!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLhzm05bWxo

Nicolas as Dicrector of the IMF with anti-debt, and so anti-left wing policies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLhzm05bWxo

Nicolas Wiki entry where you can verify all that:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLhzm05bWxo

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Besides…
Allende’s election was no miracle…
Not even a surprise…
Anybody with “2 dedos de frente”could see it coming”
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Sorry, but that it totally bulls... I respect your opinion, even it might not be matching with mine, but what you have just said is not an opinion, but simply false.
Allende election was everything else but obvious.
in thr 70 elections, there were 3 candidates:

Alessandri, center-right wing
Tomic, center/conservative
Allende, socialist/marxist

All three had a quite balanced piece of votes, about a third each. Allende 36%, Alessandri 35% and Tomic 29%.
Alessandri and Tomic were quite near in their political points of view, but too proud to step back for the other candidate or to concilliate. THIS is the reason, why Allende won. Chile was not a MATURE democracy then, because there WAS NO popular RUN-OFF round for the last 2, history would have been different
Jan 17th, 2012 - 12:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
(10) ManRod

I do REMEMBER quite well the the 60’s and 70’s political settings in South America.
I do REMEMBER quite well the the 60’s and 70’s political settings in Chile.
I WAS there…………………………………….. Were you?

What I said (and sustain) is that Allende’s election was neither a miracle nor a surprise.
The democratic rules at the time were clear and applied to everybody.
As a matter of fact Alessandri defeated Allende in the 1958 elections with a mere 31.5 percent!

All the rest you write are just Post-rationalizations that may make you feel better but that do not detract an Iota from Dr. Salvador Allende’s democratic victory in 1970

Viele Grüβe aus Chubut
El Think
Jan 17th, 2012 - 06:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Fido Dido
I see that you are Chileno-Alemán…………

Manclown a Chile-German? Pfff those are fake, give me a break, he's a joke like this story. If she's a “communist” she would give her books out for free..but oh wait, that doesn't exist. Socialists love money and spend it buy using other's people's money...sounds likes that other clown pinera.
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