Jorge Correa Sutil, former Undersecretary of the Interior during the government of Ricardo Lagosaddressed this Monday the security crisis that Chile is going through and that is on the political agenda after the death of the Carabineros non-commissioned officer, Daniel Palma after an inspection and the approval of the Naín-Retamal Law to give greater guarantees to the police.
“It is a very alarming and decisive moment for us to adopt measures before falling into a greater dominance of drug trafficking, we are experiencing violence that we were not aware of in Chile, we are experiencing very high levels of cruelty and we are experiencing a moment of dominance of drug trafficking in many populations, all this obliges us, I believe, to take short, medium and long-term measures to be able to stop this phenomenon,” he specified in the program “To Bread Bread” of The Radio Counter former member of the Constitutional Court.
You may also like:
However, the constitutional lawyer criticized the parliamentarians for the way in which they have participated in the security agenda after the approval of the Naín-Retamal Law. “There is a search to provide easy answers to complex problems, it does not seem to me that the Naín-Retamal Law contributes anything substantive, we are more or less in the same world we were in,” he said.
“What I see is a certain anxiety to say that with this we solve it (Naín-Retamal Law) and that is not true. The problem is much more complex, it takes much longer. Maybe the law is fine, but I I think it creates more confusion than certainty,” he added.
“It is a multi-causal phenomenon”
When asked about the statements of the opposition to attribute the current moment in which the country is experiencing security to the social outbreak, Jorge Correa Sutil was emphatic in pointing out that this corresponds to a “multi-causal phenomenon, since we already had narco-culture and its controls two or three towns in Santiago, today it is more widespread”.
Regarding the social outbreak, he noted that in his opinion “the social outbreak helped to legitimize the use of violence a little more and lowered morale in the Carabineros. The recruitment of the Carabineros dropped very significantly after the outbreak, but so has the ‘ pacogate.’ There are many factors, the outbreak contributed to something.”
Likewise, he clarified that the current situation in the country “is not the product of the outbreak, it is the product of 10 or 12 causes such as illegal migration; overcrowded prisons; children out of school; police officers with little training; and it is a global phenomenon that was going to arrive”.
Government Capacity
The former Undersecretary of the Interior spoke about the ability of the Executive to face the security crisis that affects our country, indicating that the greatest weakness of the current administration is that a sector of the ruling party “was critical of the actions of the Carabineros and was condescending to violence In addition, the issue of pardons will weigh on him as ‘Caval’ weighed on Michelle Bachelet“.
Despite the negative diagnosis, Correa Sutil believes that this government is capable of achieving national unity in the approval of future laws that have to do with this matter. “If the President drags the creation of a Ministry of Security, to the reform of prisons, he will drag the right, democratic socialism and he will drag a good part of his sector. In a right-wing government (Kast), the center and the left would have said no to these laws,” he added.
“It is time to get many laws that hopefully will be effective and not simply for the gallery in terms of security is a privileged moment, I think,” he closed.
Video via YouTube: The counter
