First of all, I'm sorry. I've been away several months, because of my job and because the new season 2009 -2010 of lectures about chilean history and politics started on september. So, I had a lot of work and besides that, last friday I had a little accident: I fell on the street, inches away from my office and i now i had a little fracture on my ankle... so now I have this plaster for 15 days.
It's not that bad. I think this is a little vacation for me (I was exhausted), and also now I' ve got the chance to write again in this blog.
So, my friends... what's new? Well, let's talk a little bit about current politics. We have the next presidential election on december 13th, and there are four candidates runing for president.
- Jorge Arrate, from the left coalition "Juntos Podemos" ("Together we can") that involves Communist Party and other smaller parties.
- Marco Enríquez Ominami, independent from the center-left, former socialist and the son of a very important figure in the armed struggle (from the MIR, or Revolutionary Movement from the Left) against Pinochet's Dictatorship in the '70's: Miguel Enríquez, murdered by Pinochet's political police. Now Marco defends market economy and liberal reforms related to social and cultural matters.
- Eduardo Frei, former president of Chile (1994-2000) and the candidate of the current government coalition. Christian Democrat.
- Sebastian Piñera, a very important bussiness man from the center-right. This is the second time that he runs as a presidential candidate (last time was on 2005)
