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Chile on strike: worker anger spills over
El Siglo’s Ursula Fuentes Rivera speaks to ERIC CAMPOS, the CUT (Chile’s TUC) general secretary, on the eve of the general strike
Workers of the Chilean Huachipato steel company hold portraits of Chilean President Gabriel Boric, center, Finance Minister Mario Marcel, left, and Economy Minister Nicolas Grau outside La Moneda presidential palace to protest the steel company's upcoming closure, in Santiago, Chile, Tuesday, April 9, 2024
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UF: What are the reasons for the Central Unitaria de Trabajadores (CUT) national strike today?
EC: The diagnosis that emerged at the congress of the CUT, held in January, is that in Chile there is a political alliance between a right wing and a business sector that does not allow the reforms that Chile needs to move forward and a government that, in the face of this blackmail, gives in, because it has been, in political terms, far more centrist or even right wing than anybody expected.
During our congress, we elaborated a strategy designed to break this political stalemate and the “national active strike” today is part of this mould-breaking in which the CUT has an important role to play.
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