Paso September, the month of the bicentennial, what's left of it?
Some great construction, a magnificent work of art. It said some of those who founded the country. Almost nothing about why they fought, the prevailing fanfare. Military parades with the armed forces showing their weapons. Speeches about national unity, the flag fluttering in the wind, the more flags, more patriotic. The President and Ministers huasos dresses, and payando cueca dancing, waving chicha in horn.
The remaining those who do not we dress huasos, are no less Chilean cueca dance with our normal clothes, not dressed up but we feel that we are part of this beautiful country of ours, we were born here, and we feel that our country Places in the Heart.
The government presented a project to implement royalty on copper mining companies, provided that the company accept the proposals of the government, the stability (or current taxes not raise them) will run until 2025. What the government will get a million dollars "few million dollars and will take all these years? Is this a form of surrender. If, for example copper prices rise, they do not pay anything for the most profit they get. If there is a bigger catastrophe than that of February 27, 2010 foreign companies did not contribute anything.
There is no country that requires a royalty of less than 10% Most countries charge a royalty of 20%. Although this remains a profitable business for mining companies.
They presented this project that are the cueca dancing on the bicentennial, which boasted of patriotism, national unity.
For many years he fought the Chilean people, was organized, took to the streets to demand for Chilean copper. When Allende took this idea turned into fact and law dictate that nationalized copper, supported by all sectors
"In December 1970, President Salvador Allende Gossens announced the call nationalization of joint ventures operating in Chile. Process that began with the amendment of Article 10 of the Constitution of the State of Chile, referring to the law of property, and added a transitional provision which provides that "where required by national interest and in exercise of the sovereign and inalienable right of the State of freely dispose of their natural wealth and resources, was nationalized and incorporated into the state for both full and exclusive control of the nation, foreign companies, which are the large copper mines, including For these purposes the company Minera Andina "
This law is still in force, despite the coup Pinochet years of coalition governments, this law could not be erased by law or the conscience of Chileans, is there. But today the Chilean government owns about 30% how did this happen? Why does not comply with the law?
Concertación governments with the support of Parliament are responsible for the delivery of mines to private. To do this took the law that made left the brother of current President of the Republic, at the time of Pinochet.
workers, those who build the country, that wealth should make require that all returns to be Chilean copper can not be giving away a few what belongs to us all.
The contribution made by the state-owned Codelco copper, which controls about 30% of copper in the country is immense and fundamental to the state. With this contribution could the President Bachelet to numerous benefits to millions of fellow when it introduced the international financial crisis. Today
could take a significant amount of millions of dollars in reconstruction, and employ thousands of people, in addition to solving many of the homes that are needed.
What will become of our country when it's over copper? It is extremely important to recover our copper now.
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