The presidential candidate of Approve Dignity, Gabriel Boric, joined in the criticism against the leader of the Republican Party, José Antonio Kast, for defending the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, arguing that in the 1989 plebiscite opponents were not imprisoned. , making a comparison with what happened in Nicaragua with the government of Daniel Ortega.
In a meeting with foreign correspondents accredited in Chile, Kast said that “there is a situation that makes a difference with what happens in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua (…) I think that Nicaragua fully reflects what did not happen in Chile ( with Pinochet): democratic elections were held and political opponents were not locked up. That makes the fundamental difference. “
Along with qualifying this as “very serious”, the standard-bearer of Approve Dignity stated that “it shows not only what his vision is regarding history, but also regarding the future. Because he not only denies the crimes committed by the dictatorship in Chile that the He supported, but also in his program he proposes to close the National Institute of Human Rights, he proposes to persecute left activists in coordination with other Latin American governments, he proposes to discriminate against women according to whether they are married or not. “
“So, I think Kast’s commitment to human rights has been in evidence, or rather the lack of commitment has been in evidence precisely with these statements where he gets what he thinks in the background and what his program reflects” , he added, according to slogan Biobío.
Likewise, Marco Enríquez-Ominami pointed out that “if I follow Kast’s reasoning, he is saying that to prepare an authoritarian and violent government. (…) If we fall for his game, then I want to take it seriously, it means that for Mr. Kast, The people who entered the National Stadium during the dictatorship and are missing are not political prisoners or disappeared; it means that, in your government, you are going to subtract people and how you are going to qualify them; you are going to arrest people for political reasons and what is that going to be called according to you “.
Earlier, the candidate Sebastián Sichel (Chile Podemos +) also took a nosedive against Kast, pointing out that “it is very bad for democracy and we must condemn what José Antonio Kast does when he relativizes how painful it was for thousands of Chileans to see their human rights violated, or for a whole generation not knowing what freedom or democratic elections were. “
Meanwhile, the candidate of the New Social Pact, Yasna Provoste said that “in Chile opponents were imprisoned, in Chile opponents were tortured, in Chile opponents were made to disappear. It seems to me of the utmost gravity. We cannot heal when there are people who deny a reality of what happened, and of what is happening today in Nicaragua, of what has happened in our country in recent times. “
