Social:Chilezuela
Chilezuela is a pejorative Chilean term to describe a dystopian version of Chile with negative attributes similar to those of Bolivarian Venezuela. The term gained traction in the 2017 Chilean presidential election when supporters of right-wing candidate Sebastián Piñera applied it to what they claimed was a path towards crisis and underdevelopment.[1] During the campaign rumors of Nicolás Maduro supporting Chilean centre-left candidate Alejandro Guillier spread through social media of groups of exiled Venezuelans.[2] Piñera himself sought to link Guillier to Maduro in a negative context.[2]{{Citation needed|date=October 2024} the Spanish-speaking world of doing negative references to Venezuela during political campaigns.[2][citation needed] This and similar terms such as, ezuelización are used during political campaigns to claim what will supposedly happen if the left-wing candidate wins.[3]
Under the second presidency of Sebastián Piñera, the success of "Chilezeula" rhetoric led to new visa policies leading to the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans and Haitians.[4]
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References
- ↑ Pezoa, Álvaro (2021-07-27). "¿Chilezuela?". La Tercera. https://www.latercera.com/opinion/noticia/chilezuela/EK5NN3LUVNFWBDOU2I7AOJ4XJ4/.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Palacios Sanabria, Luis Guillermo (2017-12-01). "A propósito de "Chilezuela"". El Mostrador. https://www.elmostrador.cl/noticias/opinion/2017/12/01/a-proposito-de-chilezuela/.
- ↑ Vásquez, Jorge Daniel (2021). "Bordering the crisis: Race, migration, and political strategies in anti-populist Ecuador". in Moraña, Mabel. Liquid Borders: Migration as Resistance. Routledge.
- ↑ "How Chile’s welcome turned sour". Mixed Migration Centre. 1 November 2023. https://mixedmigration.org/publications/mmr/2023/chiles-response-to-migration/.
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