"Tough moments for the unity of Chilean right wing"

"The Intendant had quit from the beginning"

Nicholas Monckeberg, Member of the right wing

RN said:

there is not fraud, but the Intendent of Concepción,

Jacqueline van Rysselberghe must to assume political responsibility.

- What do you think about this situation?

"The Intendant ought to have resigned from the beginning, no because she is the author of fraud, because we know money is not has lost, but merely because it is not good for the Government neither to democracy... “an error like this should not be kept with total impunity and without anybody responding"

- What impact would it have, the permanence in office?

"If after the expressions, such as the Intendant said, and nothing is happening, and nobody will step down, we would be giving a very bad sign to the rest of the officers, because we would be saying,"That's not bad enough that we can lie and change the background to get more resources. "

About the other right-wing party UDI that integrates the government, which the Intendent is a member ... Monckeberg said:

"When a party assumes a government, is responsible formanaging the State, and govern and to serve the whole country.”

And concerning the opposition to the government that started this political mess:

"They never would have asked for the resignation to the Intendant. They accustomed us to that authority should be sentenced to prison so ultimately leave office. "

Nicolas Monckeberg remarked:

"Political responsibility is different from the criminal law.Nobody doubts the honesty of the Intendant, and is known that no resources are missed. However, it would be wrong for any government, that when there are affirmations of this kind, no one assume, the respective responsibility for. "

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Piñera, Chile's government...Centre-left?

Chile today, with CarlosToledolabarca.02/14/2010

"Carlos Larraín understands well, the indispensable need to maintain autonomous intermediate social bodies?" (Gonzalo Rojas Wednesday February 9, 2011 Girardi and Larraín, "symmetrical?)

In days past, I mentioned the fine irony that encloses the entire text in the political column of the week 09/15.

Both political parties in our Chilean right (UDI and RN) in its declarations of principles consider indispensable citizen participation in decisions and the course of opinions, from and intermediate social bodies.

But the fact is that this is not even the least bit according to the reality that both parties practice. All decisions that concern these "intermediate social bodies, are far from being made for the themselves or less they are made into account its views, the" senator "Larraín is an example for himself …

Senator Larraín was a Municipal Council member in the Metropolitan Region, and right now he is going to fill a vacant in the Senate, representing a region far away from the capital city, and "designated to finger", this occurs: because he is the Chairman of the National Renovation Party .

Is that in the 16th circumscription does not exist some person capable of taking the vacant?

Point is not to enter at discussing the exercise, or the present political direction of the party leaders of our Chilean right, is merely to call attention ....

"Our" administration has made progress in certain issues, in particular is noticed technically and professional hands of State administration, but it is also true that politically, and in the general terms of it, is necessary to agree that it is a administration of "continuing. " of politics the country has known, with the left... and whether Piñera has come to La Moneda, with the support of Right, let's say we have the right “to ease” the classification,and to name to the actual government like"Centre-left. "

The basis for this assertion is that there is a large distance between the pragmatic activities of the President and his collaborators and the leadership of the political parties, about form and mode to gain the favor of the electors, according to the upcoming elections.

And having ignored the urgent needs of the intermediate social bodies, and as well they forget election promises, which spoke of a deep "change" in the direction of State policies.

A pathetic example is what is happening with the Head of the Regional Government, Jacqueline van Rysselberghe, in Concepción. .
Alternation, respect for the law, to banish dirty policy(¿?) ...


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: Why Egypt Yes, and Not Cuba?

Why Egypt Yes, and Not Cuba?: "I respond immediately: because in Egypt there are many liberties, this country is not a totalitarian state, in Cuba, still there remains a ..."

Why Egypt Yes, and Not Cuba?

I respond immediately: because in Egypt there are many liberties, this country is not a totalitarian state, in Cuba, still there remains a totalitarian regime.In Cuba no one can do anything unless the government allow it.

Egypt, by contrast, citizens can call to protests, en masse meeting and asked to leave, to the government.The Cubans do not have rights of citizen, the people in Cuba can do not even start a protest, because, there exist controls on persons, from barrio committees to security bodies of the Cuban government, which then in the first signs of people meeting to protest, the Cuban dictatorship jails the people.

Then, how explain the falling of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of "real socialism"?

Because there was a Soviet leader, whom I have always postulated as the most important statesman (but wrong) of the twentieth century. Michail Gorbachev pledged to respect the freedom and human rights, believing that this was possible under real socialism.

But socialism is such as dams or dikes, if they grab a small hole around. the water enters and gradually becomes a flood that sweeps away the dam.

The same thing happened with the Berlin Wall: a small space of freedom, allowed by Gorbachev, finished with all of all communist states.

Because - and this was the mistake by Gorbachev - "MAY NOT EXIST SOCIALISM AND FREEDOM AT THE SAME TIME. Socialism is the negation of personal free will. "

When the Soviet leaders were true socialists, Marxist-Leninists, they did not let even a hint of freedom in the USSR, or the satellite countries.

In Hungary they sent their tanks and smashed in the fifties, the regime of Imre Nagy, who tried open the windows of freedom. They did the same with Czechoslovakia in the 60's, when Dubcek tried to install a"socialism with a human face" (in that sense, was an early Gorbachev).



And Fidel Castro and "the island's communist oligarchy" will never allow to open a space of freedom. So in Cuba, it will not happen as in Egypt, "by right now. "

I say by right now, because Fidel and his closer comrades will not live for ever.

What happens in Egypt is typically a corresponding movement to what I call "herd effect", caused by the media, and the availability of personal communications, massive and instantaneous (cells phone,twitter, facebook). When the Egyptians saw that Tunisian, fell apart with relative facility a not democratic ruler (but not totalitarian) with the simple expedient of taking the streets, they wanted to do the same, because they are countries facing serious economic problems.

The "herd effect" is taking place across the Arab world and several governments will fall. Governments change, but do not systems.There are already many, after all, they agree that Mubarak is not so bad.

Problems of the Egyptians are not going to resolved by a change of administration. Probably achieve more political freedom and reforms.

What about Cuba?

There does not go to happen, nothing like that, because Cuba is ruled by a totalitarian regime, a dictatorship, where the more you get allowed is that the blogger Yoanni Sánchez send her dissenting views to other countries, but without those views, can become known in Cuba.

For sure, over of years the Castro brothers have to go, and then may be, there are elections, and Yoanni is elected as the first democratic president post-communist . But this is mere futurology, science in which I declare myself a dilettante.

Adapted and translated from Blog de Hermogenes “¿Por Qué en Egipto Sí y en Cuba No?” by Carlos Toledolabarca

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If President Hosni Mubarak falls, the entire West will regret it. Jidad!

When we received the news from Egypt, the media makes us believe that those who want to remove Mubarak are democrats. And it is not true!.

Mohammed ElBaradei Nobel Prize is no guarantee if he became the next president of Egypt with the support of the left wing and the “Muslim Brotherhood”. Both groups are enemies of the West and Israel. And that's the main reason for the riots. The only valid security for us in the West, is that in Egypt, they made reform and political transition, backed by the Egypt Army, and to ensure the maintenance of a secular democracy, and a permanent and full peace with Israel, as has been until today.

Democracy as we in the West and Israel understand and practice, is totally opposed to democracy that they are talking about today in Egypt and other Arab countries, that are being convulsed by leftist and religious fundamentalist agitators.

We all think in the West, the Arab world as backward societies and anchored in the Middle Ages, that our world has experienced. We imagine that because we have developed and reached levels of cultural and social exchange, in which the focus is on individual freedom, they go after it.

We are so shallow, that we have not fallen in mind that the Arabs religious fundamentalism provides an opportunity to reconcile the Western development and military power we have generated, our need for oil, with their aspirations to impose their religion on the whole world, neither more nor less than to recover the lost ground, which means converting all infidels to Islam.

These revolts have no other objective than to unite the Arabs to wipe Israel and subdue the West!

President Mubarak has been, is and will be a U.S. ally, is a man who has helped preserve world peace, has ruled strong, with errors, but the result is in sight, Israel and the West have been able to hold up today the "Intifada" or uprising in the Islamic world.

The "Jihad or Holy War" against the Judeo-Christian West has never been abandoned by them, and the "Left Democrats" do not exist.

The military, in Egypt and other Arab countries still America's friends, the West and Israel, they are looking at the actions of our leaders ... if Mubarak's regime falls violently ... sooner or later we'll all regret it.

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