President Gabriel Boric announced this Thursday that it accepted the resignation of the Minister of Social Development, Jeanette Vegaafter the call from an adviser to the Secretary of State to the leader of the Coordinadora Arauco Malleco (CAM) was broadcast, Hector Llaitul. That contact was made on May 11.
“I want to inform you that I have made the decision to accept the resignation of the Minister of Social Development, Jeanette Vega,” Boric said at a press point. “As President of the Republic we must be careful of substance and also of form,” she added.
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“The facts that we have learned make it appropriate to assert the minister’s political responsibility,” said the head of state.
Finally, he indicated that the undersecretary of Social Evaluation, Paula Pobletewill assume as interim Minister of Social Development.
The call
The middle ex ante revealed on Thursday that Tania Santis, adviser to former Minister Vega-who assumed the interministerial coordination of the South Macrozone in April-, made a call to Llaitul on May 11. As can be seen in the transcript of the call (contained in a confidential PDI report), the objective was for the CAM leader to speak with Vega.
“She (Minister Vega) asked me (to see) the possibility of contacting you and seeing the possibility of being able to have a conversation with you right now, by phone,” Santis told Llaitul.
The CAM leader asked Santis where he got his number. Later, he said to talk to him on Whatsapp.
That May 11, the middle Werken News broadcast an interview with Llaitul, in which he criticized the “intermediate state”, a measure considered by the Government of the President Gabriel Boric to avoid the State of Exception in the provinces of Biobío and Arauco, in the Biobío region, and throughout La Araucanía.
Boric for Llaitul: “No one is above the law”
Regarding the arrest of Llaitul, produced on Wednesday after an order from the Prosecutor’s Office, Boric maintained that “in Chile, no one is above the law and that our Government has the sincere will to move towards a substantive solution to the conflict that we have in the south A solution that is not only through confrontation, violence and repression, but also has to do with neglected communities.”
“Mr. Llaitul has publicly reiterated his unwillingness and that of the organization he leads, to abandon the violent path. As corresponds to all citizens, he must respond to justice,” added the President.
Let us remember that Llaitul’s arrest took place within the framework of an investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office that began in 2020, after the Government of Sebastian Pinera file a complaint under the State Security Law (LSE).
The Public Ministry charges Llaitul with several crimes: wood theft, violent usurpation, attack against authority and calls for the destabilization of the Government, conduct framed in the LSE.
The Temuco Guarantee Court decreed this Thursday the precautionary measure of preventive detention for the leader of the CAM.
