Criminal Laws

Hello Classmates!
Today I'm going to talk about criminal laws in my country. Well if you ask me how the criminal and judicial system in my country is, I have to answer that it is very bad, but not because there is no professional people to do their work, instead the problem is the laws that they have to apply are wrong, the system is very slow and tedious, with a lot of papers to fill in and give it to many people (which is in different places!).

But, despite all this things that don't work, I think the capital punishment is not the solution for criminality, because I think people can change, so I think instead of spending money to introduce this method, they have to invest in rehabilitation and education for them. Because in that form, when they are free, they will be able to work in something or have at least the chance to search for a decent job and not fall again in criminal acts. Also I think we have to generate moments were the family could have psychological assistence to help them to reincorporate her/his relative who has been in jail.

About the measure that I think the government has to take is to increase the criminality rates in Chile, are first of all, more prevention in communities of hight risks and secondly "hard hand" with recidivist.

On the other hand I think criminality has increased lately because there is a lot of opportunities to have fast and easy money for people who don't have it. So I insist that prevention is fundamental to decrease the number of robberies, burglary, pick pocketing etc...

Well that's all for today!
See you in class!!

What to do / Where to go in Santiago

Hi classmates!
Today, I have to talk about what places a foreigner must visit in Santiago.
For me is very dificult to say, because I live in this city since 2008 so I don't know (yet, this is an insinuation for my friends to take me to the most important places here:) )all the city or all the important places.
For all this, in this blog I will talk about places that I know and that I think it would be interesting for a tourist or a foreigner.

My top 5 of activities and places that I think a tourist must visit are:

1. Bellas Artes Museum, because, for example at this time there are an exposition of a chilean sculptor call Mario Irarrazábal which work is very good. Also I think this is a beautiful place to know and to walk because it has a wonderful park next it.

2. The palace La Moneda (of course!) because is the presidential house, so is a very important place and it has a museum in the underground which , in general, have very good expositions.

3. La Vega, the market place, to see the vegetables and fruits that we have in our country, and like it is very cheap, encouraged to buy some of this food for taste it. Also you can eat seafood for a modest price.

4. La Piojera, to know a typical places and a typical drink (cheapest) in Chile, like the terremoto, which is a drink done with pinneapple ice cream, pipeño and fernet.

5. Finally up the San Cristóbal's hill for have a wonderful view of the enormous city of Santiago.

Well, I think this is all for now.
See you in class!