Around fifty villagers, men women and children from all backgrounds, marched to the bridge and closed the north side with banners detailing the requests of the movement that began in Puerto Aysen and making a few extra requests of their own, like a bank and civil registry for La Junta.

La Junta is 250k from Puerto Aysen and shows that the movement has support throughout the entire region. Unlike the demonstrations in Puerto Aysen, which have involved flaming barricades, heavy police presence with water cannons, rock throwing and injury, this demonstration was more in the form that Gandhi would have advised… peaceful, and joyous.

The Carabineros have only assigned one vehicle to the event and neither the demonstrators, the police, hitch hikers or those stranded in their cars seem to be in a rush. I decided to join my neighbours in a photograph as an Ambassador to a UN Peace Messenger Initiative so I could not resist giving the International Symbol for Peace.

Meanwhile it is getting increasingly difficult to travel in Aysen. Yesterday two french visitors arrived at our house after hitch hiking from Coyhaique after finding there were no buses going to La Junta. They got a ride to Manuales, sixty kilometers outside of Coyhaique and then came to a massive road block – twelve logs that made passing by vehicle impossible. Fortunately, they were allowed to walk past the barricade and managed to get a ride further north. At the same time we have a Japanese friend who was supposed to get on a bus this morning to Coyhaique, but is now on extended stay until the transportation issue is solved. At the bridge today I chatted with a tourist from Spain who was heading south along the Carretera to Villa O’Higgins, but was now thinking of heading north to Futaleufu to cross the border into Argentina so he could at least visit Punta Arenas.

On the impact the demonstrations are having on the locals, our friend Javier Villegas, a fishing guide, lost clients who had flown all the way from Spain to Coyhaique and then cancelled their fishing trip due to the negative media regarding the demonstrations, and had flown directly back to Spain. Surely more businesses are going to be impacted by these events and the fact that fuel is only available for emergence vehicles.

Meanwhile more actions in support of the ‘Tu Problema Es Mi Problema’, the Civil Movement that began in Aysen, are now being reported the length and breadth of the region, including the communities and villages of Manuales, Puerto Cisnes, Chile Chico and the city of Coyhaique.

I have translated the requests of the Aysen ‘Tu Problema Es Mi Problema’ Movement that began last week in Puerto Aysen and rapidly spread throughout the entire region and now has gathered support from Magellanes, the region to the South Of Aysen.

A. SUBSTANTIAL DISCOUNT TO FUEL: Firewood, gas, oil, paraffin and benzene.

2. HEALTH QUALITY: infrastructure (creating a hospital dialysis service in Puerto Aysen), specialty (in Puerto Aysen pediatrics, gynecology, internal medicine, cardiology) and associated human resources and equipment to hospitals in Aysen, Swan Chile Chico, Cochrane, and others, today.

3. JOB FAIR WAGES:

a) Minimum wage for worker’s regionalized private sector, following the agreement of the Public-Private Committee.

b) Leveling area and job security for public officials and municipal leaders reimbursement unrelated to public services.

c) Board regionalized for the elderly and persons with disabilities.

d) Legislative amendment to improve the quality and equity in the workplace, such as “temporary” and temporary workers; respect the right to holidays, maternity leave, job security, decent wages and quality, among others.

4. CITIZEN PARTICIPATION BINDING: for evaluation of mega projects, including dams, considering the pipeline as HidroAysén and Southern Energy, which ensure safety and safeguard the lives of people. They must also meet regional commitments and requirements. You must ensure Aysén as life reserve.

5. PUBLIC UNIVERSITY REGIONAL COVERAGE AND HIGH QUALITY OF EDUCATION IN GENERAL TRACK DIFFERENTIAL SYSTEM OF FINANCE.

6. ADMINISTRATION AND REGIONALIZATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES: hydrobiological WATER AND SOIL MINING.

a) In particular, in the context of tax reform, that fishing companies and other processed and paid in the districts of the region its patents by venture capital, for each of the products or commodities that extract and exploit.

7. EMPOWERMENT OF FISHING CRAFTS REGIONAL actual quota according to the quantity and quality of resources in the regional territory, real control, diversification and valuation of these, management areas with family plots and respect the rights of the 3,000 fishermen , among other demands.

8. BASKET BASIC AND IMPROVING QUALITY OF LIFE: substantial reduction in cost of electricity, water, wood, gas and the factors that affect the essential nutrients, special laws such as Food Zone in Aysen.

9. GRANT TRANSPORT PHYSICAL AND INTEGRATION: significant subsidy to the transport of cargo and people in the air, sea and land, intra-and extra. Construction of the Camino Longitudinal Austral Chile overland 100% within a minimum.

10. PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT FARMER RURAL SMALL AND MEDIUM: electrification, accessibility and connectivity, attractive financing lines and speedy, technical assistance and diversification of production, and modification of the Forest Act.

11. HOUSING: regionalized and RELEVANT TO THE TERRITORIAL REALITY.