2024-02-09 21:12:14
During his speech at the funeral of former president Sebastián Piñera, President Gabriel Boric highlighted different political and personal aspects of the deceased former head of state, and also made a self-criticism for the tone that in the past, as an opposition, they had towards him. In particular, during the social outbreak.
“These days, some have remembered that we were political adversaries. It is true, he had a style of exercising authority that is not mine, he defended ideas that were different from those of our sector and he had an interpretation of the social outbreak of 2019 that was different from mine and he sometimes acted in a way that I disagreed, but always, I repeat, always, using the mechanisms of democracy and the Constitution. As former President (Michelle) Bachelet mentioned, I particularly appreciate that it was he who requested the report from the UN regarding the allegations of serious human rights violations that occurred in that period. As an opposition, as has happened other times in our history, in the midst of the political maelstrom, during his government the complaints and recriminations went, at times, beyond what was fair and reasonable. We have learned from it and we should all do so,” was part of the President’s intervention.
His words generated annoyance in the Communist Party (PC), something that deputies Carmen Hertz and Lorena Pizarro came out to express through their X (formerly Twitter) accounts. “What went far beyond ‘what was fair and reasonable’ was having been the institutional political person responsible for the serious and widespread violations of fundamental rights during the popular revolt, for the more than 400 eye traumas among them Fabiola Campillai and Gustavo Gatica , of the injuries that incapacitated many, like Mario Acuña,” Hertz began by pointing out.
“Pretending that former President Piñera ‘always, always used institutional and democratic mechanisms’ is a form of denialism; as a society we cannot protect impunity and the lack of reparation for the victims,” added the legislator.
For his part, Pizarro maintained that “what was quite ‘beyond what was fair and reasonable’ were the murders and mutilations during Sebastián Piñera’s mandate.” And he added that “this speech is loaded with denialism: it offends and re-victimizes all whose rights were violated. Incomprehensible.”
The helmsman of the Communist Party, Lautaro Carmona, did not attend the former president’s funeral. The day before, in an interview with Cooperativa on Wednesday, the top leader of the PC had stated that a delegation would be assigned to attend the former president’s final farewell.
The counselor of the National Institute of Human Rights (INDH), Constanza Valdés, also joined the questions raised by the PC deputies. “During the context of the outbreak, the most serious human rights violations were committed since the return to democracy. More than 400 victims of eye trauma, reports from international organizations highlighting human rights violations. For this, there were complaints,” she noted.
Along the same lines, the executive director of Amnesty International Chile, Rodrigo Bustos, reacted to the President’s words and assured that the “complaints and recriminations” to which Boric alluded were, in his opinion, “serious and widespread human rights violations.” ”.
“What is neither fair nor reasonable is the failure to comply with the obligations of truth, justice, reparations and guarantees of non-repetition,” he added.
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