Douglas Pollock
Quick after the well-planned communist coup on October 18, 2019 and the burning, destruction, plundering and crime dedicated in Chile’s most important cities, President Piñera unconditionally surrendered and handed over to the intense left the Structure in trade for a peace that solely got here months later with the pandemic.
That is how an extended course of to vary the Chilean’s primary political doc started, course of that residents categorically rejected (62%) in an “exit plebiscite” in September 2022. Nonetheless, just some days later and ignoring the folks’s mandate in an unconstitutional and unlawful collusion between the present excessive leftist president —Boric— and Piñera, a second course of was launched to draft a brand new constitutional textual content that can finish in December 2023 with one other plebiscite.
The brand new Structure proposal, drafted by a committee of 24 “specialists” and accepted by 50 constitutional advisors elected by vote final Could, is fairly nearer to these of Nicaragua and Venezuela than to the one enacted in 1980 underneath the federal government of President Pinochet that gave Chile stability and financial development for nearly 40 years. Amazingly, a chapter referred to as “Environmental Safety, Sustainability and Improvement” (chapter XVI) was integrated. It incorporates eight articles that increase local weather change to a constitutional mandate, one thing by no means accomplished by any nation.
Within the common inexperienced language, mandates similar to “the State will promote justice in environmental issues”, will make the nation’s industrial growth judicialized, particularly electrical energy technology; “the promotion of an power matrix appropriate with environmental safety and sustainability” will put an finish to hydroelectric technology, probably the most plentiful, clear, secure and inexpensive in Chile, as already occurred with HidroAysén, twice probably the most environment friendly on the earth —least flooded space per MW put in (run of river) and highest capability issue (85%)—, which was changed by a useless weight thermo-solar plant 30 occasions dearer, and can impose renewables that can exchange all different technology sources, particularly these based mostly in coal, fuel and oil, rising electrical energy costs, the lack of competitiveness, the commercial flight (to China), unemployment and poverty, because the West already is aware of effectively; “the State will implement mitigation and adaptation measures in a well timed, rational and truthful method earlier than the results of local weather change” is none apart from the obsession to cut back CO2 emissions and the consecration of the conflict towards fossil fuels; amongst others similar to college indoctrination on local weather change. All the above will indicate extra State, extra taxes, extra laws, extra lack of levels of freedom and extra distress for a rustic already impoverished by successive leftist governments.
On this newest try and wreck the nation with the blessing of the political proper that suffers from Stockholm Syndrome, Chile might be irremediably thrown, as soon as once more, to an financial collapse and to the tip of its sovereignty.
In the meantime, for the final six years, by each 1 MW-h of coal-fired technology capability decommissioned in Chile, China, India and Russia have elevated that very same capability by 102 MW-h.
After thirty years of Chile being the world’s high nation in poverty discount, in the present day solely a distant reminiscence stay of these occasions of prosperity and the gorgeous phrases pronounced by Invoice Clinton on the eve of his go to to Chile in 1998 that when upon a time turned true:
“Chile is probably the most treasured jewel within the Latin American Crown”.
Douglas Pollock
