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Much noise few nuts. This is how President Sebastián Piñera’s visit to La Araucanía, his first trip with the Minister of the Interior, Rodrigo Delgado, could be defined. The truth is that the displacement sought to move the agenda and mark a milestone regarding its relationship with this area, however, the lack of concrete announcements and the vote for the second 10% withdrawal in Congress overshadowed the day.
Piñera was expected to specify in the area the appointment of a coordinator, who, according to the Executive, will be in charge of restoring the rule of law in the macrosur area. But there was no name on the table, and the President only commented on the profile of the position, a fact that motivated criticism even in the same official ranks.
“The efforts we are making in security and public order in the southern macrozone can act in a coordinated and unitary manner, and improve the capacity of Chileans who want to live in peace, who want public order, who want the rule of law,” he said after meet with the widow of Cape Carabineros, Eugenio Naín.
“The coordinator is going to be part of a team. There is no Superman here who is just going to solve this problem. You will be part of a team, but you will have an absolute, total and exclusive dedication to what happens in this southern macrozone, you will be part of the Ministry of the Interior team and, therefore, you will be providing services to the minister the Interior and the President, and will seek to coordinate with all those who can contribute to this solution, “he explained.
Meanwhile, consulted on this point, Minister Delgado indicated that “the President has been clear that we are looking for the person very rigorously” and added that “we are redefining the functions, the plan.”
“Regardless of where they have resided, three things are important: that they know well how the State works, a person who knows how the State works as a whole, who is validated within the State, the ministries, who can coordinate, manage, be autonomous in that management, but obviously he is going to report to the Minister of the Interior and Public Security and to the President, “he explained.
“It is not enough to name a person”
But the President’s words did not satisfy even his own coalition. The Senator of Evópoli, Felipe KastHe pointed out that although “the President’s announcement of being able to appoint someone with exclusive dedication to face the violence suffered by the southern macrozone is appreciated, we want to be clear that as parliamentarians of La Araucanía we do not know the plan.”
“Therefore, it is not enough to name a person. It is necessary to know the strategy and the true empowerment that this person is going to have, to face this very complex challenge ”, he indicated.
Along the same lines, the President of Evópoli, Andrés Molina, who has decreed the freezing of relations with the Government, said he was “waiting to know the details of the plan, which is indeed what has to lead us to start a different path.”
In any case, the deputy said “to value the announcement of the President to appoint a person with exclusive dedication to the security forces in the macrozone (…). We hope that he is empowered, so that he really has the powers to move forward.
“An experiment without a future”
For him Senator Francisco Huenchumilla (DC), the appointment of a minister in charge of La Araucanía is simply an “experiment without a future.” “I don’t think it’s a solution that marks a turning point,” he said.
“That recipe has been used other times. Already in the Government of President Bachelet, there was a person in charge of the area. Here there are legally installed authorities: there is the mayor, he is the representative of the President ”, he said.
According to Huenchumilla, “there is a discouragement in the people of La Araucanía (…) the only thing we have is that time passes later, other presidential candidates come, probably with beautiful programs, with a chapter dedicated to La Araucanía and its problems, and so on. we continue for more than 20 years. That is the harsh reality, “he said.
For Senator DC, the change in La Araucanía also involves “a profound reform of the Carabineros, because really all the facts show that here there are never guilty of anything (…). A young policeman was killed recently, and the answer so far, none ”.
According to Huenchumilla, “there is a problem of inefficiency of the police, and specifically of the Carabineros, in which we do not effectively have an intelligence system, which is not to pursue: intelligence in a democracy is to investigate”
However, during the presidential visit, which also included meetings with victims of rural violence and an appointment with the Multigremial de La Araucanía, to present the latest advances in the region’s social, political and economic plan, Piñera did leave an announcement there concrete: a bill to decree a June 24 holiday to commemorate native peoples, a date that also coincides with the celebration of the “New Year” or “We Tripantu”.
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