00:00We go now to Chile as workers from the Confederation of Municipal Health Employees
00:04held a national strike to protest the proposed 2026 budget freeze put forward by the government
00:11of Gabriel Boric. The protesters expressed the rejection of a series of measures and the
00:16government is seeking to implement which they described as repressive. Among these measures,
00:23they denounced the freezing of the per capita base in the 2026 budget law, the elimination
00:28of programs crucial to the population, and the covert privatization of public health through
00:35the incorporation of private sectors, users, and companies into the public system, in this
00:42way profiting from resources that were meant for the most vulnerable members of the population.
00:48This has been categorized by the participants as the privatization and dismantling of the
00:55healthcare sector.
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