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This will require considerable effort

The helicopter slowly descends on a field in front of the destroyed hospital of Talca. When the propellers are stopped down President Michelle Bachelet at his fifth tour of the areas most affected by the earthquake. Is facing one of 39 major health facilities were completely destroyed by the earthquake. And you should inspect the field hospital built by the military in a football field. “This will require considerable effort, a reconstruction effort that will take a long time, many years,” said the president once again. “Almost everyone next government,” he said later, suggesting that the reconstruction will take the whole government of Sebastián Piñera, the man who on Thursday is to be done by the government and tragedy.

But the president said something else. In a radio interview, Bachelet warned that Canada should have recourse to international organizations seeking credit. “Chile has resources for a quantity of shares, we will have to ask the World Bank loan or other entities,” he said, advancing on the government to come.

Piñera responded immediately, saying that theirs is not “the government of the earthquake but of reconstruction.” Although the company’s admission that the cataclysm will force you to completely rethink its program of government, which had as its priority public safety and creating a million jobs. While launched a contingency plan he called “Lift India” for “trying to find the missing” restore public order “once and for all,” a direct criticism of government indecision Bachelet will send in the army to impose order by looting, to resume normal production and launch reconstruction “with modern standards.

Pinera also was quick to appoint the 6 mayors (regional leaders) of the provinces most affected. He did so in response to some pressure to keep the current authorities until the emergency passes. He leaned in Bio-Bio appoint the current mayor of Concepción, Jacqueline Van Kyssenberg, a psychiatrist at the UDI, the party closest to the Pinochet that was the first to claim the military presence on the streets and a curfew.

Bachelet tries to display an image of the beloved president who works tirelessly until the last day in office. In its previous level in Concepcion, made a long list of efforts being made by the government to bring aid to victims. 8000 were distributed food rations yesterday. He assured that there is a permanent airlift between Santiago and destroyed cities, which involves 30 aircraft. Also traveling from the north and south of the country, nine Navy ships carrying 320 tonnes of humanitarian aid and to be prepared in Valparaiso a frigate that brings 220 tons of food and 1,500 kiloes medium.

All that is needed here in Talca. The center of the city’s bicentennial absolutely destroyed. And in the surrounding streets you can see the makeshift camps of neighbors who lost everything. “And here is not coming from anyone. It brought us even a water bottle. If it were not for people who come in solidarity, we were dying here, “said Miguel Angel Hernandez, a local Socialist Party leader who is trying to organize a neighborhood group of 3 South and 11 East, 300 meters from the main avenue . A situation that should be a wake up call for Pinera who, if he fails to get aid to these people quickly and efficiently, the crisis could explode in her hands just assume.