A Friday occurring on the 13th day of any month is considered to be a day of bad luck in English, German, Polish and Portuguese-speaking cultures around the world. Similar superstitions exist in some other traditions. In Greece or Spain, for example, Tuesday the 13th takes the same role. The fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia, a word that is derived from the concatenation of the Greek words Παρασκευή, δεκατρείς, and φοβία, meaning Friday, thirteen, and phobia respectively; alternative spellings include paskevodekatriaphobia or paraskevidekatriaphobia, and is a specialized form of triskaidekaphobia, a phobia (fear) of the number thirteen.
To the Chilean government, July 13th will be remembered as an unlucky day. Popular support for President Michelle Bachelet fell a deamatic eleven percent during the past six months. 41% of the nation gave a hand to the president, but only 35 percent of the Santiaguinos believed that her government is good.
Most of the Chilean people felt dissapointment of how the government manage the problems . Seventy-seven percent of those polled gave Transantiago a negative evaluation, while only 5 percent gave a favorable rating to the much maligned mass transit system. The most criticized aspects of Transantiago were the bus frequencies, the length of travel time and the quantity of buses. Sixty-two percent of those questioned said they spent more time commuting as a result of the new mass transit system, and 34 percent said the new system was more costly.
Support for former president Lagos dropped by 12 percent, suggesting that the public also blames him for the troubles of the Transantiago system, which was conceived during his government.
Then the thirteenth will be remembered by the government as a black day.
Friday 13 July 2007
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