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After three o’clock in the morning a team from the Intendancy of the Metropolitan Region traveled aboard a van to the nerve center of the capital, to begin with the cleaning and restoration of the statue of General Baquedano.
Just hours after the end of the celebrations for the triumph of the Approval, the statue of Plaza Baquedano is repainted @ 24HoursTVN pic.twitter.com/3gBmEbBZeQ
– Rodrigo Alejandro (@perezmuena) October 26, 2020
This is a new restoration that is carried out on the monument after during the past demonstrations it was also intervened with paint, a fact which caused annoyance within the Army.
According to the institution, those who carried out this attack “surprising and incomprehensible” son “People who turn their resentment and frustration on symbols that represent each of the Chileans.”
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They also pointed out that “qThose who do not recognize the sacrifice given by thousands of compatriots who have allowed the history of Chile to be writtenThey will hardly be able to project the country towards a future to which we all aspire. “
In that sense, before different voices that ask to remove the statue from this iconic place, the mayor, Felipe Guevara was categorical in indicating to La Tercera that “We restored the monument to General Baquedano and we will do it again, if again there are behaviors of contempt for history “.
In the same way, the mayor Guevara indicated that these works are part of the “Public Spaces Recovery Plan” that is carried out in different parts of the historic center of Santiago.
Photos by Rodrigo Pérez and Aton
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