By Carlos Alberto Montaner
Obama visited Chile. It's natural. Chile has taken the lead in Latin America. Is a great example. It is likely that the next generation to live in a first world country, which means social levels reach to seventy percent of the census. How did he do? What happened there? Let's talk about that. A year ago
Sebastián Piñera became president of Chile greeted by a devastating earthquake which damages were estimated at thirty billion dollars. However, objective assessment of those 12 months is reasonably good. Let
numbers: GDP growth of 5.2%, slightly higher productivity, lower inflation by 25% (4 went to 3), reducing crime and relatively peaceful social climate, although some left angry tried to present the new government as the return of Pinochet, which presaged a contentious atmosphere.
However, more important than the achievements of Piñera and his decisions, taxes rose unexpectedly, prevented the creation of a coal-fired power plant needed to pressure from environmentalists, is the smooth continuation of the work of government. Similarly in 1989, presided by Christian Democrat Patricio Aylwin, a center-left coalition replaced the Pinochet dictatorship after a disputed election, but did not give up the positive aspects of the general left, but was dedicated to building a modern democracy governed economically by the market and the company Private, Piñera has done exactly the same: it assumes power after the socialist Michelle Bachelet and does not destroy anything. Simply continues the march, the government proposes certain measures that he and his experts find most effective, corrects or reverses others, and all remain under the authority of law and pursuant to the institutions.
why Chile is now the most successful nation in Latin America. The vast majority of society agrees that the best model of coexistence is found within the political paradigm of liberal democracy and market fundamentals and the supremacy of civil society. Consequently, politicians and civic peaceful moves within that spectrum, which is also that of the twenty-seven European Union nations, and a dozen other winners of the first world countries: USA, Canada, Switzerland, Israel , Japan, Australia, South Korea and a brief and so on.
Finally, those who make up the range of liberal democracy-Chilean Christian Democrats, Social Democrats Liberals and conservatives, whatever their official names, "have understood that there are irreconcilable enemies, but members of the same political family, able to make coalitions, differentiated only by minor differences that do not question the system in which they live, but the style management. What is discussed with passion is the amount of the tax burden, the public spending priorities and social norms: abortion, sexual preference, position on drug use and the rest of the usual moral cockpits.
That is maturity. So serious nations behave. Smoothly, without delusions revolutionaries aimed at reshaping the nation according to fantasies of the shift leader.
is true that in societies triumphant heroes usually are not politicians, but prominent entrepreneurs create wealth, scientists have made great discoveries, the athletes who have managed to break Olympic marks or intellectuals and artists universally admired. In these countries, companies are not slaughtered to glorify their rulers, but the reverse happens: the rulers are slaughtered for the glory of the societies they serve. Do not come to power to rule, but to obey and serve.
That's what Chile has done for over twenty years. There is no secret. Via
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