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The mayor of Colchane, Javier García, requested “respect for the expression of popular will that our residents manifested” in the plebiscite of October 25. This is in the context of the fact that said municipality was one of the five in the entire country – along with La Antártica, Las Condes, Vitacura and Lo Barnechea – where the Rejection option won.
In a Facebook post of the Municipality, García pointed out that “the insults propagated by social networks demonstrate the level of classism and racism of the Chilean population towards the indigenous peoples.
“Our people have been reviled for exercising their right to decide, with irreproducible comments, full of hatred and contempt for our worldview and reality as an ancient and millenary people,” said the communal authority.
The mayor also stated that “it is valid to question the reason for the preference of the Colchaninos, but in the same way the foundations of the arguments that make this criticism must be questioned, in all of them we see that a racist and classist approach prevails, of denial of the expression of the other “.
“Chile begins a new stage and cannot start off on such a bad foot, giving itself the freedom to trample on the dignity of the Colchane commune, which was simply expressed at the polls and whose decision must be respected. This should be a warning, now that, under no circumstances should the drafting of the new constitution be allowed to be built with these seeds of discrimination and hatred. If not, it will be another exercise in covering up participation, where once again the native peoples will be marginalized “, ends the publication .
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