MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
March-bonus for 7 million low income Chileans, handout in presidential election year
Chilean president Sebastian Piñera signed this week a bill which grants a special ‘March-bonus’ to low-income families and is extensive to seven million people. Each beneficiary will receive the equivalent of 85 dollars which will represent for the Treasury an outlay of 208 million dollars. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesPower oscillating between centre left and centre right is not a bad thing.
Mar 26th, 2013 - 11:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Though I'm a fan of compulsory voting, even though it would seem Chile no longer is.
Exactly, Anglotino.
Mar 27th, 2013 - 12:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0Everyone accepts gifts, and Chile is doing well :)
Better to have put the money into education... scholarships or whatever..
Mar 27th, 2013 - 01:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0This is a bit like the day before an Oz election... 'vote for us and we will give you free beer!....'
Centre left/centre right is good... sad thing about much of SA is that its far left/far right....
The good thing about Chile is that they have a growing middle class... unlike RGland where the middle class is punted straight back into poverty every ten years.....
Heading out of Melb you used to be able to see the Leader sign on the left from the Hume...
Palta Hass at $Ch2399 ( about $5 Oz) a kilo today at what was Fullfresh and now seems to be Unimarc ( the one where the railway station was before the 1960 earthquake ) on the Costanera ... better price and quality than you could get at Woolies. last week..
Really there's no such thing as left, center, or right in South America, there is ONLY corrupt. The only exceptions to this are Uruguay and Chile. Unfortunately Uruguay is subservient to corrupt Argentina, so in a way that really only leaves Chile as the exception in South America. Chile's still not totally clean, not by any means, but its at least clean enough to be able to make a distinction between left, right, and center.
Mar 27th, 2013 - 03:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0Frank,
Mar 27th, 2013 - 02:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Palta Hass only Ch$1600 at my local market - remarkable as we are in the 8th year of a drought.
Anglotino,
The problem with the compulsory vote here was the way it was implemented. You had to vote in the locality where you were registered, so for many people who work/live 100s or thousands of miles from where they are registered is was a significant effort to vote and if you didn't vote you got fined. They could have improved the system rather than scrapped it.
1600 pesos the kilo of avocado? Thats about 3,20 dollars or 2,5 Euros.
Mar 28th, 2013 - 02:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How many avocados is that?
Here in Germany they cost about 1,30 Euro... per single unit of avocado.
Our main providers for Avocados is Chile, Peru and Israel.
The things I do in the name of research..... in the supermercado I shop at you can buy small avos for $ch2000 a kilo bag with about 8 to the bag. I buy the loose ones.... they are bigger.... about 4 to the kilo..... so about US$1.20 each for big ones.... 50c for small ones.....
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