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Friday, October 25, 2019

Inti Illimani: El Pueblo unido / Inti Illimani sings "The People United" - POSTSCRIPT MARCH 2024




Frens (as the Green Frog People say), it is March 2024 and the Estallido Social of October 2019 is a faded memory.

The Covid Plandemic has come and gone.  It was the death knell for the popular awakening.  The violence in the streets was weaponized to polarize society.  The aim is always to destroy unity.

Then the people got the opportunity to form a Constitutional Assembly that would replace Pinochet's 1980 constitution.  It was a battle from Day 1, and the multiple fractions all had to get their parcels of vindication.  The Piñera government and Pinochet's Army got to work too, and their campaign of disinformation was a complete success.

In September 2022 the proposed new constitution was roundly rejected.

A new constitutional project was formed, this time by technocrats convoked by Congress.

In October 2023, it too was rejected.

The administration that succeeded Piñera's double tenure, the left-wing government of Boric, staunch admirer of Salvador Allende, has natureally become the Bogey Man.  I can't say the new generation has been the sharpest knife in the drawer either.  They're still trying, but you can't change the system from within the system, because it buys you, and if you're not for sale, it still coopts you.  Chilean deputies and senators are the highest-paid politicians on planet Earth.

The entire planet is plunging ever deeper into chaos and world war.

I observe.  I have the deep intuition that what is happening, must happen.  That something New is already forming and about to be born, but first the old must fall, the old must die.

The old isn't about to fall or die without a struggle to the death.
Says the old:   Humanity, if I can't keep enslaving you, then no one else will ever see you free.  Over my dead body.  


And another intuition I have, is that Humanity must assume its responsibility for  transforming the violence within itself into peace and light.  But Humanity will not make the evolutionary leap by itself, it needs assistance.  And we will receive it, but ONLY IF WE SHOW THAT WE DESERVE TO BE ASSISTED.






                                     El Pueblo unido jamás será vencido
                   The People United will never be defeated
Ang sinisigaw nila sa katapusan ay:  ¡El Pueblo, Unido, Jamás Será                                                                  Vencido!                                                                  
                    Ang Bayang Nagkakaisa, y Hindi Matatalo Kailanmán.             




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBapx7P5NNQ

El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido

Inti-Illimani
De pie, cantar
Que vamos a triunfar
Avanzan ya
Banderas de unidad
Y tú vendrás
Marchando junto a mí
Y así verás
Tu canto y tu bandera florecer
Stand up, sing
For we will win
Move onward now
Flags of unity
And you will come
Marching beside me
And this way you’ll see
Your song and flag blossoming
La luz
De un rojo amanecer
Anuncia ya
La vida que vendrá
The light
Of a crimson dawn
Already announces
The life that will come
De pie, luchar
El pueblo va a triunfar
Será mejor
La vida que vendrá

Stand up, fight
The people will triumph
The life that is coming
Will be better

A conquistar
Nuestra felicidad
Y en un clamor
Mil voces de combate se alzarán

To win
Our happiness
And in a clamor
A thousand voices of combat
Will shout
Dirán
Canción de libertad
Con decisión
La patria vencerá
Dirán
Canción de libertad
Con decisión
La patria vencerá
Y ahora el pueblo
Que se alza en la lucha
Con voz de gigante
Gritando: ¡adelante!
And now the People
Who rise in the struggle
With a giant’s voice
Shouting: Onward!
El pueblo unido, jamás será vencido
El pueblo unido jamás será vencido
The People united will never be defeated
La patria está
Forjando la unidad
De norte a sur
Se movilizará
Desde el salar
Ardiente y mineral
Al bosque austral
Unidos en la lucha y el trabajo
Irán
La patria cubrirán
Su paso ya
Anuncia el porvenir
The nation is
Forging union
From north to south
It will mobilize
From the salt flats
Burning hot, mineral
To the austral forests
United in struggle and work
They will go
The homeland they will cover
Their footsteps already
Announcing the future
De pie, cantar
El pueblo va a triunfar
Millones ya
Imponen la verdad
De acero son
Ardiente batallón
Sus manos van
Llevando la justicia y la razón
Mujer
Con fuego y con valor
Ya estás aquí
Junto al trabajador
Stand up, sing
The people will triumph
Millions already
Impose the truth
They are steely
Fiery battalion
Their hands go
Bearing justice and reason
Women
With fire and valor
You're here
Beside the workers
Y ahora el pueblo
Que se alza en la lucha
Con voz de gigante
Gritando: ¡adelante!
And now the people
Who rise up in the struggle
With a giant’s voice 
Shouts: Onward!
El pueblo unido, jamás será vencido
El pueblo unido jamás será vencido
The People united will never be defeated
The People united will never be defeated


People celebrate, do dance, do theater, 
get to know their neighbors again.                            Inti Illimani sings a beautiful 
song from the 1970s.  These songs begin to be heard again, in the streets.

                           The military and carabineros arrive with tank trucks and armored jeeps that shoot tear gas, the people disperse, the soldiers and police leave. The people return.  There was an 8pm curfew. The people stayed in the streets and were arrested.  The curfew was pushed back to 10pm.  People went home early!

                            There have been deaths, many seriously wounded by police and military brutality (firing blanks, rubber bullets and live ammunition at peoples' heads, eyes, necks, chests), torture and rapes have been denounced, 41 deaths, 11 rapes that are not being reported by the govt and main  stream media. Nagising na ang bansang chileno.

                            Foreign journalists such as Argentines          are divulging what is not reported by Chilean govt and media.  El Pueblo chileno ya despertó.

                           Here's a video report by TELEFE, the brave journalist Abigail Hermo isn't afraid to expose herself to tear gas:





                             If the government insists on repressing             the peaceful people, creating chaos and doing nothing about
those who loot, burn, commit terrorist acts such as burn entire subway stations (which ordinary Chilean students and citizens do not have the resources and know-how to carry out) and if the government itself orders the carabineros and military to commit human rights violations, refuses to dialog with the citizens and make structural changes such as convoke             a Constitutional Assembly to change the 1980 Constitution of Pinochet, it will fall.          SING WITH US.

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