The senator Jose Miguel Insulza (PS) addressed this Monday the acts of violence that occurred in the Arica and Parinacota region and affirmed that this type of situation has increased “substantially.”
“Violence has increased substantially in the Arica and Parinacota Region,” said the legislator in conversation with CNNChile. In this regard, he stated that “the dead last year were 10 throughout the year and this year they are 24.”
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“We need better intelligence in Arica, we need more police in Arica, we also need the courts to do their job as the Prosecutor’s Office is doing,” he added.
Regarding the Aragua Train (Venezuelan criminal organization that is operating in Chile), he said that “indeed it exists, not only has it been widely published, but there is also an ongoing investigation and several people have been arrested for this.”
Let us remember that, according to Radio Bio Bio Over the weekend, members of the Aragua Train were planning an alleged offensive against Carabineros on the Chuño hill in Arica. Even the deputy secretary of the interior, Manuel Monsalveannounced that he will make a trip to the Arica and Parinacota region on Wednesday.
However, the regional prosecutor of Arica, mario careerpointed out that there was an “overreaction” by the authorities in the face of the alleged threats.
“I would say that in this region the Aragua Train was directly dismantled, what happens is that from the strategic point of view I have no doubt that the work has not been finished with that,” Carrera said in conversation with Radio Universe.
“I have no doubt that they will effectively try to reorganize themselves in this region, but let’s think that the entire organization chart that we studied for 8 months, today they are all deprived of liberty,” added the persecutor.
