People of all ages in Chile streamed through Santiago’s streets as they protested against a pension system that has left many retired workers with scarce funds to get by. More here:
SANTIAGO - As over a million people streamed through Santiago’s streets in a series of protest marches last week, one elderly couple stood out from the largely youthful crowd.
On the city streets that same anger runs deep - even among the young, far from the age of pension payouts. Wages, living costs, healthcare and pensions dominate: the young have seen their grandparents struggle and do not want the same fate. In Carrasco’s case, she worked from childhood as a seamstress but now lives on just 100,000 Chilean pesos a month. Her husband of 50 years was also a textile worker and gets a slightly higher 140,000 pesos.
Maria Luz Navarrete said she had worked as a civil servant for over three decades but at the age of 70 has to do a side job as a janitor to make ends’ meet.Jorge Heine, an academic who served as a cabinet minister in a center-left administration in the late 1990s, called the pension system “a real disaster.”
Marta Lagos, director of the polling firm Latinobarometro, said that the AFP system was less “Mercedes Benz” and more of a “Humpty Dumpty” model.
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