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Tuesday, March 22nd 2022 - 22:02 UTC
After its first week in office with acceptable ratings of approval, the Chilean government of President Gabriel Boric Font is eager to speed the passing of an amnesty bill to favor those who were arrested during the Oct. 2019 protests, it was reported in Santiago.
Presidential General Secretary Giorgio Jackson Monday announced the Government would grant the highest urgency possible to the amnesty project for the so-called prisoners of the social outburst. Today we would like to begin by announcing the extreme urgency of the pardon or amnesty bill, as it has been called, which for us is important in terms of human rights, Jackson said.
Of course, there is a first debt and mission with respect to achieving the truth and justice with respect to the different cases of human rights violations that have occurred, he added.
Jackson also said there had been meetings at the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights with victims of police violence, as well as with those who in one way or another were harmed.
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https://en.mercopress.com/2022/03/22/chilean-gov-t-to-push-for-pardons-regarding-oct.-2019-protests
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(Former President who refused to reign in his violent police force in its war against Chilean progressive protesters always been a supporter of the Richard Nixon-puppet vicious dictator, Augusto Pinochet.)
Chile president-elect reveals hardline cabinet with ties to Pinochet
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Piotr Kozak in Santiago
Tue 23 Jan 2018 18.20 EST
Chiles president-elect, the billionaire businessman Sebastian Piñera, has unveiled a new hardline cabinet, including prominent conservative figures and some politicians once closely aligned with the Pinochet dictatorship.
The new interior minister, Andrés Chadwick, was a vocal supporter of Augusto Pinochet during his 1973-1990 regime, which named him president of the Catholic University Students Federation.
Chadwick and the new justice minister, Hernán Larraín, were also supporters and defenders of the secretive German enclave Colonia Dignidad, which was established by the fugitive Nazi officer and paedophile Paul Shäfer in the early 60s. It later emerged that the enclave was used by security officials to torture and murder opponents of the regime.
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Although Piñera campaigned on a centrist platform, many analysts predicted that he would tack to the right upon election. On the night of the election, one group of Piñera supporters celebrated by hoisting aloft a bust of Pinochet.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/23/chile-president-elect-sebastian-pinera-andres-chadwick
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Dozens blinded by police shots in Chile protests
Issued on: 22/11/2019 - 03:32
Modified: 22/11/2019 - 03:31
Running away as shots rang out, Carlos Vivanco turned to see where they were coming from. Then he felt his left eye closing and his face dripping with blood.
The 18-year-old student had become one of scores of people hit in the eyes, and in some cases blinded, by police rubber bullets in Chile's recent wave of anti-government protests.
Police have fired tear gas, water cannons and rubber shot cartridges. Vivanco was hurt during the first week of the protests, when President Sebastian Pinera sent soldiers onto the streets.
"They wanted to cause me pain, shame, regret, fear," says Vivanco at his house in the suburb of La Pintana near the capital Santiago.
"But they had the opposite effect. I have more rage than pain and more hatred than shame -- and it is against those who are out there shooting and mutilating people."
More:
https://www.france24.com/en/20191122-dozens-blinded-by-police-shots-in-chile-protests