The year that ends had everything on all levels. It was intense, at times rarefied, polarized, without lacking joys and achievements. To have some clues about how to look at what these twelve months were likeThe century conducted a survey among workers, professionals, legislators, journalists, people from the world of culture and human rights. An approximation to what many people think and feel as this year ends; and there was a question about what the priorities should be for 2024.
“The century”. Santiago. 12/29/2023. To find out the opinion on what was best and worst of the year, the disappointment and the success, how the family economy fared, the assessment of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the coup d’état and the priorities to consider for 2024, the newspaper The century He consulted around thirty people, a group made up of workers, women, legislators, journalists, people from the world of culture and human rights and professionals.
Their responses to the survey surely indicate what many people in the country think and feel as a very turbulent, dizzying, expectant 2023 ends, where there was no shortage of happy and satisfying episodes.
It seems obvious to point out that the agenda was impacted by crime of various types, polarization and political tension, migration, macro and micro economic problems, suddenly leaving aside not only positive episodes such as the Pan American and Parapan American Games, the rise in 500 thousand pesos of the minimum wage, an end to co-payment in Health and social advances in regions and communes, but also processes that have to do with a comprehensive and diverse country.
Of course there will be many looks at 2023 and from different areas. In segments of society, even the issues have different priorities. Whatever the case, the year leaves lessons and perspectives and some signs of how certain citizens view events. Here’s some clue.
Of those consulted in the survey The century80% indicated that the best 2023 was the triumph of “En Contra” in the plebiscite of December 17, which rejected the second constitutional proposal that carried a conservative seal.
20% indicated the Pan American and Parapan American Games as a positive event in the year that ends.
Meanwhile, 50% pointed to Israel’s attacks on Gaza and the genocide against the Palestinian people as worst 2023. 25% indicated that the constitutional process and the second Magna Carta proposal was also the most negative of the year. 12% pointed to the Mega tax fraud discovered several weeks ago.
For 25% of those consulted, the joke of the year It was the constitutional process.
In between the successes Of 2023, a variety of responses were received, none with a relevant majority. Among the accusations were the new fishing law, the containment of inflation, the inauguration of new lines and sections of the Metro and the Search Plan for more than a thousand missing detainees.
He wondered if the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the coup d’état was the height or was it deficient. 60% thought that it was deficient and 30% that it was up to par.
The perception or conviction of how things went the economy of Chilean families In 2023, it was divided into an almost similar percentage: 50% rated it as not very good, and 48% as bad.
Regarding priorities for 2024, 60% established them in advancing the reforms, especially pension and tax reforms, and social aid from the State. In lower percentages, public safety, increasing employment, improving health, articulating the social movement and defeating the extreme right in the next elections were identified as priorities.
Among those who responded to the survey The century There are Pía Figueroa, Co-Director of the Pressenza information agency; Álvaro Ramis, Rector of the Academy of Christian Humanism University; the worker Óscar Gúmera; Jorge Coulón, musician and member of Inti-Illimani; the architect Juani Gutiérrez; Ana María Olivares, regional president of the College of Journalists; deputy Matías Ramírez; the analyst and consultant Roberto Morales; Víctor Hugo de la Fuente, director of Le Monde Diplomatique-Chile; the designer Paula Gutiérrez; the president of the Chilean Human Rights Commission, Carlos Margotta; the journalist Lidia Baltra; and Nicolás Romero, director of DeFrente Magazine.
