2023-07-05 01:45:24
the deputy Gloria Naveillana former member of the Republican Party, caused controversy during his appearance on the television show “Violent times” (Vía X) due to his comments on Augusto Pinochet and the military dictatorship.
Naveillán, who represents La Araucanía, corrected the presenter, Edward of the Churchwhen he mentioned Pinochet. “President Pinochet. He was president, whether you like it or not ”, he claimed. Similarly, when the presenter referred to the dictatorship, she replied: “Military Statement”.
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When asked directly if he considered Pinochet a dictator, Naveillán replied: “No, look, I don’t consider him a dictator”. These statements sparked outrage among the other panelists, who accused the deputy of denialism. “What denialism! For me it was a military pronouncement.”replied Naveillan, who then proceeded to criticize the government of Salvador Allende.
“For me these 50 years are the celebration of the end of the Government of Salvador Allende. You are younger than me. I lived through the Allende government. It was a horrible government, where there was repression, where there were murders, where there was hunger…”, said the legislator.
Panel reaction
The Liberal Party lawyer, Rodrigo Rettig, apologized to viewers for Naveillán’s statements and recalled that “Pinochet’s dictatorship was the worst part of the history of our republic” and that “it is widely accepted throughout the world that Augusto Pinochet you are sitting next to the worst criminals and dictators in human history“.
For her part, Deputy Javiera Morales (CS) also apologized for the incident and recalled that a “Coup d’état, where human rights were violated, money was stolen and there was lousy economic management“. “It is very painful that parliamentarians today are defending the worst dictatorship, where we still have disappeared detainees, families who have not been able to bury their relatives“added the parliamentarian.
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