The singer was on the Vive Channel program, an instance in which he took advantage of responding to Claudio Narea’s words regarding his decision regarding the next national plebiscite. In turn, he made striking statements regarding Augusto Pinochet.
During your participation in the program Without filtersthe national artist Oscar Andrade took a moment to reply to the tweets issued by the exPrisioneros, Claudio Nareadue to their opposing political views.
It was at the end of June that Andrade stated on the Canal Vive program that he was going to vote for the option rejection in the next exit plebiscite.
The singer’s words caused a stir, since in times of dictatorship he was characterized as a staunch opponent.
However, in that same instance he took the opportunity to criticize other artists of the time. “I don’t know any artist, over 40 years old, who is not a leftist for convenience”he stated at the time.
The aforementioned words were questioned by the former member of Los Prisioneros, who wrote: “I never saw him on any stage from 83 onwards. He was not an artist committed to the fight once morest the dictatorship. Don’t sell him as a leftist because he wasn’t. Celebrate it as one of the Rejection just, to dry ”.
The latest on Andrade: I never saw him on any stage from ’83 onwards. He was not an artist committed to the fight once morest the dictatorship. Don’t sell him as a leftist because he wasn’t. Celebrate it as one of Rejection, just plain.
– Claudio Narea (@claudionarea) June 24, 2022
However, only now in his last appearance on television, Óscar Andrade responded to Narea.
“They themselves recognize that they were my opening act”said the singer in Without Filters when another panelist of the program began to read responses from other people regarding who the singer was.
“The fights with the people from the café on the hill, who he self-exiled in Germany because they didn’t bother him“, The woman managed to say, to which Andrade replied: “But if you are censored that way, the hypocritical majority, at least Pinochet had a public blacklist, he was much more honest”.
To this Oscar added: “And I tell you something, Pinochet was much more democratic than you”he said referring to the militants of the national political left.
The phrase issued by the singer caused a great uproar among the panelists of the program, which led one of them to affirm that he really the singer was not censored but had lost validity.
Meanwhile, regarding Narea’s statements, the space host, Gonzalo Feito, affirmed that they invited him to Sin Filters to talk regarding the subject, however, he did not agree to participate.
Oscar Andrade: Pinochet was more democratic than you on the left! #sinfiltrostv pic.twitter.com/WrksndLmJH
– CLINT JOSELITO ???????????????? (@clint_joselito) July 13, 2022