2002 Chilean telethon

In 2001, the Telethon Foundation gave a press conference warning that they had to borrow one billion pesos to cover expenses for the subsequent months.

The message also appeared on the official poster of the event featuring Don Francisco with a sad face showing the empty pockets of his trousers.

For her part, the party leader, Gladys Marin, told the press that the event should not be for entertainment but a task of state, also criticizing the donation of $40,000,000 that was to be given to the then Mayor of Santiago, Joaquin Lavín Infante.

[citation needed] At the close of the Telethon at the National Stadium, the group Los Prisioneros was introduced, who changed the lyrics of the song "Quieren Dinero" (They want money).

That all the greed and sense of good business that companies have, that they can raise prices, pay less taxes, advertise themselves, and that what people eat, in quotes, to help, really you can help children.