Candles of remembrance have seized around Chile on the anniversary of the earthquake. The central and southern Iraq have not slept. At 3.34 am it was a year since an earthquake of 8.8 on the Richter scale, the fifth most powerful in history, struck the center and south of the country and leave 523 dead, 24 missing and more than 800,000 homeless.
Most of the 'velatones', the lighting of candles in memory of the deceased, took place in the regions of Maule, Bío Bío and the Juan Fernández Archipelago, in places like Dichato, Talcahuano, San Juan Bautista or Constitution, most affected by the tragedy of last February 27, 2010. In Constitution, 361 kilometers south of Santiago, the acts were solemn.
The entire community remembers the fateful night when the waves caused more than 100 deaths, mostly in a thin island off the town, Orrego. It was late summer when they prepared the feast of the moon. The boats, dressed in ostentatious flowers floated on the Maule and headed Orrego, where hundreds of people camped out and watched the full moon.
After the earthquake there was no way out of there, so most awaited death in a giant wave. The president of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, went to the village most devastated by the tsunami to commemorate the year of the event. "This flag was fluttering, facing the city constitution. Is a flag that symbolizes many things, a flag wounded but not defeated, much less broken, they found a flag amid the muddy desolation, but not dull, "the president said.
He then changed the flag President which has become the symbol of Chile, which found a city among the ruins of Pelluhue, a coastal town south of Constitution, a new flag. "Losing a loved one is something that leaves an indelible mark on the soul. But we must continue to live because life despite the pain has to continue, "said Sebastian Pinera.
The president added:" There are ten people, five adults and five children, we have not been found. That's the most painful. I ask all my countrymen that the best tribute and remember best is to show that we are a united country. "A few feet of the president, half a hundred people carried banners and black balloons against the government's reconstruction plans.
The victims, dissatisfied with the slow pace and the expropriation of land along the river Maule, accused the president of organizing a "Tongo" about reconstruction. They were the inhabitants of the area of El Pozo, 140 families living in the coastal edge of the river Maule, and are not the work that the Government paid for their land with the aim of building a retaining wall to future emergencies.
"We will seize paying market value for these 140 families, and so ensure the safety of 4,000 families living in this city, the most dangerous of the entire country," said Francisco Irarrázaval, executive secretary of Neighborhood Development, a ELMUNDO. is. "With the earthquake in the bed of the river rose four feet, so now it is even more dangerous to live here.
We did research in 25 coastal cities to establish reconstruction plans with insurance to avoid tragedies such as the Feb. 27," said Francisco. The executive secretary of Neighborhood Development admitted that the issue of reconstruction going slower than they wish, "but we have restored more than 90 percent of functioning of public services.
The issue of housing more difficult." Mrs. Rosa, residents of El Pozo, he responded: "What we used these visits, we want solutions. I'm angry, very angry. Now, more over, we want to expropriate our land, this is a negotiated one show, but we do not listen. " "I saw the black flags but I also saw white flags, but today we'll talk if you want to listen", was heard to say to turn Sebastián Piñera.
"We are human beings and we did what was humanly possible. The easiest thing would have been rebuild and leave it exactly, but we made a master plan and we will have to expropriate houses on rock and not sand." For its part, Michelle Bachelet called from New York, his current place of work: "A central agency with clear reconstruction, more cross, because this is not just a housing issue.
An institutional framework to take charge, resources, dedicated just to that. " 
Most of the 'velatones', the lighting of candles in memory of the deceased, took place in the regions of Maule, Bío Bío and the Juan Fernández Archipelago, in places like Dichato, Talcahuano, San Juan Bautista or Constitution, most affected by the tragedy of last February 27, 2010. In Constitution, 361 kilometers south of Santiago, the acts were solemn.
The entire community remembers the fateful night when the waves caused more than 100 deaths, mostly in a thin island off the town, Orrego. It was late summer when they prepared the feast of the moon. The boats, dressed in ostentatious flowers floated on the Maule and headed Orrego, where hundreds of people camped out and watched the full moon.
After the earthquake there was no way out of there, so most awaited death in a giant wave. The president of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, went to the village most devastated by the tsunami to commemorate the year of the event. "This flag was fluttering, facing the city constitution. Is a flag that symbolizes many things, a flag wounded but not defeated, much less broken, they found a flag amid the muddy desolation, but not dull, "the president said.
He then changed the flag President which has become the symbol of Chile, which found a city among the ruins of Pelluhue, a coastal town south of Constitution, a new flag. "Losing a loved one is something that leaves an indelible mark on the soul. But we must continue to live because life despite the pain has to continue, "said Sebastian Pinera.
The president added:" There are ten people, five adults and five children, we have not been found. That's the most painful. I ask all my countrymen that the best tribute and remember best is to show that we are a united country. "A few feet of the president, half a hundred people carried banners and black balloons against the government's reconstruction plans.
The victims, dissatisfied with the slow pace and the expropriation of land along the river Maule, accused the president of organizing a "Tongo" about reconstruction. They were the inhabitants of the area of El Pozo, 140 families living in the coastal edge of the river Maule, and are not the work that the Government paid for their land with the aim of building a retaining wall to future emergencies.
"We will seize paying market value for these 140 families, and so ensure the safety of 4,000 families living in this city, the most dangerous of the entire country," said Francisco Irarrázaval, executive secretary of Neighborhood Development, a ELMUNDO. is. "With the earthquake in the bed of the river rose four feet, so now it is even more dangerous to live here.
We did research in 25 coastal cities to establish reconstruction plans with insurance to avoid tragedies such as the Feb. 27," said Francisco. The executive secretary of Neighborhood Development admitted that the issue of reconstruction going slower than they wish, "but we have restored more than 90 percent of functioning of public services.
The issue of housing more difficult." Mrs. Rosa, residents of El Pozo, he responded: "What we used these visits, we want solutions. I'm angry, very angry. Now, more over, we want to expropriate our land, this is a negotiated one show, but we do not listen. " "I saw the black flags but I also saw white flags, but today we'll talk if you want to listen", was heard to say to turn Sebastián Piñera.
"We are human beings and we did what was humanly possible. The easiest thing would have been rebuild and leave it exactly, but we made a master plan and we will have to expropriate houses on rock and not sand." For its part, Michelle Bachelet called from New York, his current place of work: "A central agency with clear reconstruction, more cross, because this is not just a housing issue.
An institutional framework to take charge, resources, dedicated just to that. "
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