2024-04-25 23:28:29
The Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrichreported this Thursday that the Government is processing the extradition of the former Chilean guerrilla, Galvarino Apablaza, accused of committing a murder in 1991. The official indicated that bseeks to advance the process so that “it does not last forever.”
Bullrich, in an interview with CNN Chile broadcast this Thursday, confirmed that Argentina is working on the extradition of Galvarino Apablaza, who was convicted by the Chilean Justice of committing a serious crime.. Apablaza, now 73 years old, has remained a refugee in the country for almost twenty years.
“The Argentina is not going to be a land that keeps murderers«The president stated and then added: «We are in talks with the justice system so that this does not last forever, to resolve this immediately, and we are already doing it precisely because we have other cases.»
The minister referred to Apablaza and assured that “he has no longer been considered a political refugee.” For this reason, she stated that the case might be “activated with justice.”
For his part, the Chilean foreign minister, Alberto van Klaverenhighlighted Bullrich’s statements and assured that “it would be good news” for the neighboring country. ”The government has always been interested in clarifying the crime of Senator Jaime Guzmán. The Government has supported all efforts precisely to obtain the presence of Mr. Apablaza in Chile so that he can appear before justice,” he declared.
Who is Galvarino Apablaza
Galvarino Apablaza was sentenced to 18 years in prison in Chile for his role in the 1991 murder of Jaime Guzman, founder of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI), the main party during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. He is also accused of kidnapping of the newspaper’s director The MercuryChristian Edwards Del Ríoin 1991.
According to what was learned, Apablaza was one of the former leaders of the Manuel Rodríguez Autonomous Patriotic Front, a radical left-wing armed group that had split from the Chilean Communist Party at the end of the dictatorship. During his guerrilla days he was known as “Commander Salvador”.
When Pinochet came to power with a coup d’état, on September 11, 1973, he was arrested.
In 1974 he was expelled to Omar Torrijos’ Panama and later sent to Havana to reinforce the struggle of the Sandinista Front in Nicaragua. In 1981, he organized his return to Chile. In 1986 he founded the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front and attempted to defeat Pinochet by force. Since then he lived in hiding in several Latin American countries.
In 1991, when Patricio Aylwin was already governing Chile, Guzmán was murdered. Shortly following, Apablaza moved to Argentina and He obtained political refugee status in 2010. However, the government of Mauricio Macri withdrew that benefit in 2017.
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