The right-wing government in Chile follows the crest of a wave of unrest in a country with lofty macroeconomic balances, but with dividends concentrated in the wealthiest sector of the population, while most people try to subsist on very little.

While it is not easy to exceed the indicators of protests in 2011 when there were more than 6,000, they have also been repeated in 2012 for rejecting the conservative administration of President Sebastián Piñera.

The main reason for the rallies and protest marches are located in the deep inequality in income distribution in Chile.

Note that 10% of richest Chilean families have a per capita income 78 times higher than the poorest 10 percent.

It is said the existence in Chile of seven wealthy families to amass a fortune of 75 billion dollars, i.e., three times the GDP of neighboring Bolivia.

One of the cardinal reasons of this inequality lies in unfair access to work, to the point that poor families have an unemployment rate much higher than those of the middle class.

Moreover, poor households have very low incomes, unlike what happened in the homes of the more economically benefited.

To this dichotomy inherited from Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship was later heightened by Piñera’s government conduct, which rewards some and forgets the others. 

According to his opposition, Piñera sharply promotes with his decisions to the business sectors and relegates Chilean groups with lower income.

In Chile, where a legacy of tyranny is still fragile and the space for unions and the effective right to strike is still limited, many are fearful to show their faces to those in powerful positions, who openly confess their nostalgia for the Pinochet era.

As Pinochet did, market economy is applied in Chile today, a term that is reflected in attempts to make the educational system more inclusive, for instance.

Chileans are proud of their brave young leaders who called for a public debate about issues of quality and unequal education.

In the country where Pablo Neruda and Violeta Parra harvested glories, the cost of a public university education can reach 9,000 U.S. dollars with the consequent obligation of students being in debt forever.

With delays in the reconstruction after the earthquake and the criteria endorsed by 77% of the citizens of that growth only benefits the wealthy, Chile remains intoxicated with vociferated macroeconomic successes.

The neo-liberals and big business representatives like to try to show Chile as the great shopping window, without seeing the broken glass.

Pages of solidarity are being written in Cuban universities every day. Cuban ot only provides assistance to other nations in sending health personnel, but young students from around the world are trained in their classrooms.

About 11 thousand students completed their medical studies here in Cuba, which is the highest number in the history of the country.

More than 5 thousand students are from 59 countries, and graduated as doctors to raise the health rates of their respective countries.

Bolivia, Nicaragua, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Guatemala are the countries with the largest number of graduates from the universities of Medical Sciences of the island, where they were well-trained from the scientific point of view and capable, competent, with an inclination towards primary health care and great human values.

According to official data, the total number of graduates in medical sciences in the academic year 2011-2012 amounts to 32,171 health professionals among Cuban and foreign students, in medicine, dentistry, psychology, nursing degree and Health Technology.

Teachers in our country are involved in the training of more than 29 thousand students in the careers of Medicine, Nursing and Health Technology in eight countries: Venezuela, Bolivia, Angola, Tanzania, Guinea Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia and East Timor.

The assistance that Cuba provides to other nations in the training of human resources had its highest expression arising from the hurricanes in the 90's that battered Central America, causing tens of thousands of dead and injured.

Hundreds of Cuban doctors were sent to Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. They provided assistance in places of difficult access to neglected communities, and their presence raised the question of what would happen when they left.

It was through the initiative of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, who would create the Latin American Medical School (ELAM) in Havana, which now has branches in several provinces of the country, and aims to train professionals to ensure medical care in remote areas.

Members of low-income families and beneficiaries of scholarships granted by the Cuban government, these health professionals have a new concept of medicine, based on solidarity and humanism.

This was evidenced after the 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti when 250 volunteers from 28 countries attended this school trained to assist the suffering Haitian people.

In addition to the training of doctors, Cuba supports the training of nurses in the Caribbean through the implementation since 2005 of the Nurse Training Program for the Caribbean.

Fruit of the legacy of Latin American and humanist thought, Cuba's National Hero José Martí, and Fidel Castro, the Caribbean nation provides solidarity in health to any nation of the world, regardless of political or religious beliefs.