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"CHILE IS A COUNTRY AS LONG ...

Plaza de Armas, in Santiago de Chile

".... MIL things can happen ". And happen in the land where they expand in all latitude climates in the world. With that opening sentence, among other compelling ideas, summarized the group Quilapayún the country's image at the end of the famous Cantata on the tragedy in Santa Maria de Iquique the December 21, 1907. Beyond the Andes, and to a Pacific whose shores offer the most varied forms that can an enormous coastal area from the nitrate in the north to the southern glacial landforms, Chile offers a geographical identity, based on a plurality of landscapes and horizons, that catches the attention.

much as its history and traits of a people that despite the distance, we find it particularly close and intimate. A seasoned people in the fight against tyranny in defense of freedom and overcoming disasters. are all, obviously, as in any country, but, leaving aside the contradictions of a complex society, worth noting the efforts made at the present time to deal with difficult situations associated with three in case of serious that highlight the strength of those who suffer and time star. occur in the south, in the center and north. I own a country so long. How to ignore them how not to grant the attention and recognition they justly deserve?

Little attention is being paid in Europe and in Spain Mapuche people's struggle in the southern areas of the country . It is said, a quiet battle, though very active and persistent, away from the media and deliberately forgotten. Mapuche community (the man of the earth) calls for recognition of the agreements signed in the mid-nineteenth century, which recognized the allocation of their ancestral lands in the region of Araucania. In defense of the return of the 32 indigenous law have begun a hunger strike, with which also claims the right to their community, and those who are incarcerated, not apply to them the Terrorism Act, in force since the Pinochet dictatorship. A very serious problem, entrenched in the southern regions, and that has made the Mapuche population, which owned 800,000 people, is the most visible and militant among native societies in South America. hardly speak of them in Europe, but they exist.

When we mentioned the central highlands of Chile no one can forget the earthquake in late February 2010. Country strong seismicity is even talk that the quake could have changed the weight distribution of the world and altered the terrestrial rotation speed. The impacts on people and infrastructure have not reached the level of catastrophe and destruction caused in Haiti by the terrible earthquake January. More than 700 people died and damage was enormous in the area of \u200b\u200bthe city of Concepcion and in the metropolitan area of \u200b\u200bSantiago. And a half million homes were affected phenomenon and there are still many who remain unusable. It was a huge test for the country, which is still far from having recovered from the tragedy.

And again the tragedy shakes northern areas, the areas of mining, which for centuries has commercial projects in the world. Overwhelmed by the journey through the desert lands, filled with mineral, of the north of Chile. The look never gets fully covered in the "solitude of droughts." Death or threats and diseases of all kinds have always been omnipresent. And it happened again. From 5 August to 13 October 2010, 33 miners have been buried at 700 meters depth as a result of a collapse due to a poor security conditions aggravated by the reopening of the farm to the good prospects market. The outcome has been happy, but it could have led to the tragedy. The problem has been the world on edge for two and half months, and has revealed something already known for a long time and nobody has to notice: that the work in the mine involves going risk that every precaution is little to prevent accidents tend to happen with repetition, if nothing is done properly, in the most difficult and inhumane labor activity. Before the collapse occurred on mine safety statements of the leaders of the country were in a lamentable laxity. The locking qualified bureaucratic and unnecessary price increases. It seems that the lesson learned is not falling on deaf ears.

Chile this year has been front page news on many occasions. All painful, all sad, all powerful but with marked differences between them. Nature has been mixed with that country. Wild and wonderful, brutal and exciting, fruitful and barren, untamed and transformed. A contrasting scenario that invites understanding and reflection, precisely because it offers an open model with very different management systems at the confluence of problems in history, the behavior of the natural environment and, above all, human action, ultimately, is responsible that problems will be faced with positive or abandoned to their fate, which always impact on quality of life of disadvantaged or worse treated by history.

In any case, the final stanzas of Iquique Cantata, sung jointly by Inti Illimani and Quilapayun, bring us better to the aspirations and hopes of that country so long and complex.