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The Former Minister of Women, Macarena Santelices, questioned that the period of the Pinochet regime be considered as dictatorship.
The former mayor of Olmué also participated in the program “True Lies” of Network where he made these statements.
He remarked that it bothers him “When there are people on the right who even participated in the military government and the Armed Forces, who today talk about dictatorship, that seems like a lot to me.”
Santelices admitted that during those years “Yes, there was a violation of Human Rights and covering the sun with a finger means that there was not”, however, he stressed that “the Constitution that we have today is the product of that historical moment in our country that allowed us to grow economically and become what Chile is today,” stated Publimetro.
Asked if she considered that there was a dictatorship in Chile, the former minister specified that “Is there any dictatorship in the world that has handed over power after a democratic process, which was Yes and No? Is there any other dictatorship in the world that has handed over power peacefully, with a plebiscite?
He deputy Juan Luis Castro (PS) He remarked “I don’t know if your relationship with Pinochet prevents you from saying that Pinochet was a dictator, is that the point? Clearly, for the history of the world, Pinochet was a dictator ”.
The former mayor replied that “I can’t rate it, because I was born in the year ’78.”
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