Chile reports alarming social inequality figures

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In Chile, a quarter of the nation's GDP is in the hands of 1,700 people out of the country's population of 17 million. The Capitalist accumulation system in Chile is based on the privatization of basic human rights such as health and education and, while President Michelle Bachelet's administration is trying to push through reforms on this issue, the business sector and the Chilean opposition publicly try to deter such actions. teleSUR