Chile Forum

Bachilet can't getting anything done in disasters like this...like on the spot stuff because she has too big a balance of favors she owes rahter than owed to her...so she has to go trought the regular channels and that takes time...behavior like this only erodes confidence in the government because ...every CHilean is wondering what will happpen when the disaster hits the core population of the country...they aren't stupid, don't give up our stuff that we might need later ....it takes favors to get this stuff done because more than likely all the machinery they have is busy doing favors for someone else that no one is supposed to know about and so to protect your job from the boss axing you, you stumble around hoping and delaying untill you get your stuff back to send out on the things you are supposed to be doing....calls ring in and no one answers....that goes for supplies as well...its all in the campo of the jefe or the mother's campo of his hot and naughty secretary...

paciencia no ma'


I'm not going to say anything about putting money into a OMENI_ALLFORME_ACCOUNT in the BancoDeCH-iflados)...just sayn'


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There are about 200 people left in Futa. The bank was still closed today and money is an issue...not that people don't have money, they can't GET money! Tomorrow the bank is supposed to be open, so as one of those people, I will go see what I am allowed to withdraw and divide it between us, our landlord and his nephew (who is our builder) - none of us have a dime and all of us need money to travel. We'll go slightly thirdsies with whatever we get out of the bank, We are butchering all the neighbors chickens in a little while and giving them to people who remain. Not because there is no food, but because there is no feed. Better to have a last supper of chicken, than to just let them die. I have no idea what is happening in el campo with animals.

We have also been told that we can travel across to Argentina without the required Argentina Seguro, and can take the dog. We'll go - tomorrow...all depends on getting money for gas to keep on trucking as far as we have to go.

Bosque wept this afternoon at the thought of butchering the family laying hens. I shudder to think what Nono and Ismael are going through with their sheeps and beloved oxen out in Sector Azul. I'm sure it's a scene that will be repeated over, and over and over.

Vicki

Where is Mr. Douglass Tompkins at? He could make a lot of points being a good neighbor in this situation. He`s got the money to help out - I saw La Presidenta hugging people in Futa - I guess she feels their pain But is that all she`s going to do? Get some "face time" on TV? I have suspicions that the locals may be turn out to be unhappy with the amount quality or timeliness of the govt. aid. I hope it works out OK for everyone affected.

Golden opportunity missed...."Go for broke Mister T"..

A couple of Chinook's landing in a near area,giving away one gallon jugs of "american" water and supplies,courtesy of Mr. Douglass Tompkins, will solve a lot of his visa problems or not...He might become more popular than la "Senora" and unwrap the fury of the government and he easily can be deported for that infamous spitting in the sidewalk that happened many years ago,which has been properly"documented"....

Meantime, the President has promised subsidies to whom.....?

The families that host and give shelter to the displaced ones ...

Oh Vicki I,m so sad for Bosque and Nono and Ismael, they have been on my mind all day. I'm breaking a long silence, though I have been lurking for a while , personal trajedies that now seem insignificant.> God!! I pray this is one of those 6 day wonders and not a prolonged disaster like Montserrat has been in in the Caribbean, my eyes are watering tonight not just for you, but from the tons of SO2 that continues to spue , a hundred plus miles away from the Soufriere Hills volcano.What a price we pay for paradise! Be safe, take care, many of us all over the gd place have you in our thoughts. yes! and please take care of the dear wench!