A piece of news

   Yesterday I read a new in a national paper that I found interesting, because sometimes it sounds like a gangsters movie. It was about an investigation of a group of scientists of the University of Chile requested by the Health Ministry. This scientists publish a work where they warn about the dangers of the consume of the oil of Chía, and because of that they received aggressive phone calls and constant threats of dead if they don't retract about the report.

   According to the investigation the oil of Chía could be a risk factor of cancer to the prostate and could produce cognitive and visual damage in breastfeds. Going beyond than the anecdotal aspect of the new, it is a really shocking thing that a scientific investigation (and an assignment from the Health Ministry) receives this kind of attacks from private interest that could harm the health of the people just for the lucrative purpose of a product.

   In strict rigour we don't know if the threats were from the great interests economics involved in produce and commercialize the oil of Chía, but of course the principal suspicions goes to they, and in Chile there is sad and constant history of abuse and corruption when the economical interests are in danger like in this case.

   I feel, in general, interesting news like this, when you could find the relationship of the economy and political powers in little things, or when you discover the abuses and corrupt functioning of the great powers. The journalism in Chile it's very discredited, but the work of some good papers could be essential in the develop of a society.