The Minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency (Segpres), Ana Lya Uriarte, spoke this Sunday on TVN about the truckers’ strike that has been maintained for seven days.
In the National State program, the authority stated that “there is no supply crisis in the country.” In addition, he pointed to the role of the Carabineros and assured that there are uniformed officers who “have not assessed the order that was imposed on them,” according to 24horas.cl.
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“We would have expected that this would have ended after the effort of Minister (Mario) Marcel all day Monday, that it would have effectively ended on Monday night. On Monday night there was an agreement between the main trucker confederations and at The next day, unfortunately, part of one of the confederations falls out and small groups of truckers who do not belong to these large groups also join. Consequently, all this that we have experienced ‘extra’ is the product of intransigence,” said the minister.
It is worth mentioning that the truckers’ strike continues and the last meeting with the government lasted until midnight and resulted in no agreement. Now, La Moneda is expected to rule on the mobilization this afternoon.
Intransigence
As explained by the head of the Segpres, the situation is due to intransigence “on the part of these unhinged groups of truckers who have claims that are certainly excessive.”
“The main confederations on Monday night accepted the agreement, because they understood that the country was making an effort in order to maintain the security of supply and supply for the entire population. But these off-the-cuff groups have really gone over the line for a long time what is acceptable and understandable,” he said.
In this context, he pointed out that there are “two issues that should be pointed out: one, this government is very open to dialogue and, consequently, it is always talking, receiving concerns, analyzing proposals, etc.; but secondly, it is not possible, There are issues that are beyond what is possible to impute to a government or a group of authorities, because we are talking about groups of unhinged and others that spontaneously adhere and adhere after the proposal, that is, they give rise to a petition after a offer accepted by the great confederations”.
“What happens here is that if there is something impossible to dimension in its exact measure, it is ambition. The ambition of these groups off the hook and other spontaneous ones, because they were negotiating with the big confederations. If it had not been like that, believe me they would all be the berms of the entire country are occupied, this is not the case, we are talking about groups of truckers with excessive ambition, who have made requests that are really far from what is reasonable and understandable that it is possible to access,” said Uriarte.
The Minister Secretary General of the Presidency added that “we as a country were used to the existence of organizations that represented their interest group. This has been disfiguring, and in the case of truckers it is a very clear example, because with the large confederations – I insist – they talked, Juan Araya, Mr. Sergio Pérez, they were sitting at the table and Mr. Araya said the next day ‘unfortunately they let me down’, that is, there are leadership problems in this”.
Along the same lines, he explained that the situation “when it already affects the country, when it affects the population, when we threaten the supply of essential goods to the population, the truth is that we have to go in and solve a problem that clearly has another origin, but we are the authority, we are the Government, we resolve it and we are here”.
carabinieri
Regarding the Government’s decision to apply the State Security Law and the actions of the Carabineros, the head of the Segpres indicated that “I would like to be very clear on this, because the Government gave written instructions regarding what the Carabineros should do. For the most part, the Carabineros have done their homework and in others processes have had to be generated within the Carabineros to determine responsibilities for the government’s failure to fully comply with those instructions.”
After being asked if there were police officers who were not complying with the orders imposed, the minister replied that “I would not dare to make such a drastic judgement, but I would dare to say that there are police officers who have not assessed in its real sense the order that was imposed on them, that was delivered to them and the general director of the Carabineros has given an account of this”.
“So regarding that I think there is nothing more to say, what does have to be said is that at this minute that we are talking, the Ministry of the Interior is currently working to effectively ensure that those who have not yet deposed their attitude, do it, because the lawsuits have already been filed by State Internal Security, what was agreed has already been done, it is on the table and it is operating”.
“Minister Marcel said it on Monday, so I believe that a call must be made and we take advantage of this instance and all the necessary ones, to those who remain off the hook, to take a look at what is happening with their action and the population. If this had no consequences, in reality it would be completely peaceful, but we are talking about a pressure group that, after excessive ambition, is putting the provision of the population at risk, generating multiple inconveniences for drivers and many consequences that of course we do not want. “, said.
“There is no supply crisis”
Along with the above, Minister Ana Lya Uriarte confirmed that “we would like to be very clear, there is no supply crisis in the country, what exists is replacement difficulties in some points and with respect to some goods.”
“Consequently, it is not to make a call to the population ‘they have to get out as best they can’, that is far from being what we are talking about. We are talking about a group of truckers who, with excessive ambition, are causing problems in the supply of the population, but not to the limit that we have a supply crisis in the population, that does not exist”.
Differences with the Southern Macrozone
Finally, regarding the measures that have been taken after the truckers’ strike and the differences that exist with the initiatives applied in the Southern Macrozone, he assured that in “the Southern Macrozone the laws that have given real results have been applied.”
“Each situation has a legal strategy that the Government points to efficiency, to the best result, in the Southern Macrozone you have to see everything that has happened during the year, a series of groups have been dismantled and it has been done with the new The Wood Theft Law, for example, lawsuits for fire, etc., which have given results, since we have a very impressive number of dismantled groups and I think they have not had enough echo regarding what the successes that have been reported mean. “They have had in investigative and repressive matters, and we are talking about a complete system. This is a gear that starts from the Prosecutor’s Office, continues with the Guarantee judges, with the Courts, with the PDI, investigating with Carabineros,” he commented.
“We have acted with a criterion of efficiency and this has been done both with the truckers and with the Southern Macrozone and with drug trafficking and the illicit association in general,” were part of their statements.
