About Chilean Educatión

The modern world has so many exigencies. For example, a person, who does not know to use a computer, is nearly a functional illiterate. The things that humankind knew only fifty years ago, nowadays has been duplicated. This real situation offers many challenges, in this sense, here in Chile, a big part of this new challenge should be mitigated by an education that be at high of every one of this new perspectives. This educational function must be a roll assumed by the State.
However, because of the politic facts of last forty years, the State renounced to its paper in primary and secondary education, and municipalities, from promulgation of the LOCE (Functional Constitutional Law of Education) on March 10 of 1990 (yes, the penultimate day of Augusto Pinochet's ditatorship), ought to assume this roll, that before it was of State and private people, and after the promulgation, it is the roll of municipalities, in the place that before occupied the State, and private people.
There are many municipalities that are very poor, they not even have money to sustain themselves, and now ought to get this additional charge. At the other hand, municipalities that have the sufficient money, select to students who can enter to one of their public schools (for example, Instituto Nacional, Internado Nacional Barros Arana, Liceo 1, Colegio Lastarria, etc.). Some private schools select their students, but not in others, it all depends of how much money holds the family of one student. There are another private school that work with money of fees and State subventions.
At the other hand, at professional Education, there are some Universities that belong to State (such as University of Chile, Universidad de Santiago, etc) and another that, in spite of being traditional universities are private (such as Pontifical Catholic University of Chile). And also are non-traditional universities (such as Adolfo Ibañez Univerity, Ucinf, etc.), they all are private.
Therefore, in conclusion, I can say that State has been very lazy with respecto to its roll in education. This has not assumed the challenges of the present world as its. And the education is one more merchandise or comoditity that only a few people may get of an acceptable quality.

History of Chilean Constitution of 1980

The current Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile, approved by Chilean voters in a tightly controlled plebiscite on September 11, 1980 (Exactly seven years after chilean coup d’etat), under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, effective March 11, 1981 and amended July 30 of 1989, 1991, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005, replaced the earlier Constitution of 1925 (Written on first Presidency of Arturo Alessandri Palma). In its original permanent dispositions, it gave the President of the Republic a large amount of power and faculties; however, some of these dispositions, such as the power of dissolving the Lower Chamber of Congress and serving eight year terms with possibility of reelection, were modified or eliminated after 1990, when this country regained its democracy and the Congress was reestablished. It created some new institutions, such as the Constitutional Tribunal and the controversial National Security Council (COSENA).

In its temporary dispositions, the Constitution ordered the transition from the former military government, with Augusto Pinochet as President of the Republic, and the Legislative Power of the Military Junta (formed by the Commandants of the Navy, Air force, National Police[Carabineros], and a representative of the Army, the Commandant of the Army being president of the republic), to a civil one, with a time frame of eight years, during which the Legislative Power would still be the Military Junta. It set the first eight year presidential term for Pinochet, with a plebiscite in the eighth year, in which only one candidate, nominated by the Junta, would be accepted or not. The candidate, as expected, was Pinochet himself. While the steps to follow in the case of a triumph of the "yea" option, which the document obviously anticipated, were clearly delineated, the steps for the "nay" triumph were less so, but still clear enough that no serious doubt emerged when the "nay" option actually was victorious in the 1988 plebiscite.

After the plebiscite, several modifications to the Constitution were agreed and subjected to referendum, among them a simplification on the mechanism of future modification.

In 2005 over 50 reforms were approved, through law 20.050, which eliminated some of the remaining undemocratic areas of the text, such as the existence of non-elected Senators (institutional senators, or senators for life) and the inability of the President to remove the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, besides the paper that armed forces got of being guarantors of Constitution. These reforms led the President to controversially declare Chile's transition to democracy as complete. However, the anti-terrorist measures of it remained in force, and it seems that this kind of dispositions shan’t be countermanded during so much time.

The Chilean Constitutions before this last were these:

• Regulation for the amendment of Executive provisory authority of Chile 1811
• Constitutional Regulation 1812
• Regulation for the provisory government 1814
• Constitution of 1818
• Constitution of 1822
• Constitution of 1823
• Federal Essay of 1826
• Constitution of 1828 (Liberal constitution)
• Constitution of 1833 (conservative constitution), and
• Constitution of 1925

An interesting web site, where you can find all the history of Chilean Constitutions is http://www.bcn.cl/pags/legislacion/leyes/resena_const.htm, and besides you can find the official traslation of Chilean Constitution on this website http://confinder.richmond.edu/admin/docs/Chile.pdf, it is a PDF document that is the official traslation from Spanish to English of Chilean Constitution of 1980, in its original text.

My favourite song

I now a lot of songs, many of them are very beautiful, I think there are many songs that make you remember some special moments in your life. You must consider many aspects to say a songs is good or bad, but a song can be so bad musically, but it becomes your favourite. The song I want to present you as one of my favourites is this:
I Thought About You - Frank Sinatra

I took a trip on a train,
and I thought about you.
I passed a shadowy lane,
and I thought about you.
Two or three cars parked under the stars,
windin' stream.
Moon shining down on some little town
And with each beam,
the same old dream.

And every stop that we made,
oh I thought about you.
And when I pulled down the shade,
then I really felt blue.
I peaked through the crack,
looked at the track,
One goin' back to you,
and what did I do
I thought about you.

(Musical interlude)

There were two or three cars parked under the stars,
a windin' stream.
Moon shining down on some little town
And with each beam,
the same old dream.

(Musical interlude)
And then I peaked through the crack
and I looked at that track,
The one goin' back to you,
and what did I do?
I thought about you.

I share with you the link where this song was uploaded by me, it is http://www.compartelo.cl/?q=31252
Good luck

Hi, I'm Ramiro

Be welcome everybody who is visiting my blog. My name's Ramiro, I lived in Santiago, Chile. I'm 21 years old, and very soon I'll become 22 years old. I'm a student of law in the University of Chile.I was born at Santiago on July 11th of 1985. I think my life is really worthwhile, but not thanks law. This is only a very small "introducction" to my thought, and also for this is a homework for English Laboratory.
I hope after I can write more and many interesting stuffs. See you later.