They have not been in office for a week and in the Government of President Gabriel Boric they have already entered into a series of contradictions. The last one, linked to the failed and improvised visit of the Minister of the Interior, Izkia Siches, to La Araucanía. Let us remember that the Secretary of State and her entourage tried to enter the community of Temucuicui, being repulsed by shots fired into the air. Later, it was learned that those responsible said that they were not going to negotiate anything while there were still “Mapuche political prisoners.”
In fact, the Minister of the Interior herself assured, last Tuesday in front of the media, that “this Government is going to put everything it has on the table to seek political solutions, but those people who believe that the violent route is going to allow us advance, including demands against Mapuche political prisoners, are very wrong”.
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During this day, said qualification generated contradictions within the Executive. First, the Undersecretary of the Interior, Manuel Monsalve, said – in conversation with Tele13 Radio– that “people who are today convicted of a crime have been convicted by our judicial system, therefore, they are convicted of a crime that is typified in the Penal Code. From that perspective they are not political prisoners.”
Thus, he stated that from the point of view of the current legal system, “today there are prisoners for criminal cases that are typified.” “Every time there is an event and that event has some slogan, a pamphlet or some canvas on which evidence is left, an allusion is made to the character of political prisoners”, so, according to Monsalve, there are Chileans who for this reason consider that there are political prisoners.
Undersecretary Monsalve’s comments were issued around 08:00 in the morning. Only 15 minutes later, the Segpres minister, Giorgio Jackson, told Radio farming that it is a “delicate” situation and explained that “when the power of the State is exercised, it means depriving people of their liberty.”
“There are many cases, without due process, there are many people who, or through preventive prisons, as happened to the machi (Francisca) Linconao and who was deprived of liberty for many months, without finally discovering anything at all” Jackson assured.
Along these lines, Jackson said that this has been repeated “historically”, especially with the application of the State Security Law “in the area where there is a conflict between the Chilean State and the Mapuche people.”
“That has happened many times, and it has ended up being shown, when they end up being released without any evidence, that there has been persecution and many times political imprisonment by some who have been, rightly, confirmed as a montage in the past” , Hill.
