It was in Parque La Castrina, in San Joaquín, the place that hosted the launch of the acts that commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Military Coup. President Gabriel Boric participated in a meeting whose objective was to recognize the role of churches in the defense of human rights during the dictatorship. As a kickoff, the President declared the concepts that will be discussed during the year when commemorating the suspension of democracy in Chile: “We are going to commemorate 50 years since the coup d’état of 1973 and we want to do it staging three great ideas, three great concepts, memory, democracy and future”.
Nearly 1,000 people attended. Among them, members of the Catholic and Evangelical Church, who witnessed the recognitions that were made at the ceremony. The Vicaría de la Solidaridad, the Committee for Peace, the National Committee for Aid to Refugees (Conar), the Foundation for Social Aid of the Christian Churches (Fasic) and the Peace and Justice Service. There was particular recognition for Javier Egaña Barahona.
Boldos, quillayes and maitenes were delivered in the form of awards to materialize the recognition of the protection of fundamental rights. Exactly, after a week in which security and DD.HH have given something to talk about. The President made evident the apparently contradictory intersection and made reference to the discussion that will take place in the Senate: “I want to call for us to be reflective in these debates.”
Borci warned, like the spokes minister, Camila Vallejo, his expectations regarding the processing of the Naín Retamal law: “We can reach that very basic agreement that security and Human Rights go hand in hand.” In addition, he commented that advances in security are contradictory when they advance without safeguarding human rights: “It is inexplicable that one can claim to advance towards the right to citizen security, where we have to be very firm, without respecting human rights, That’s a contradiction we can’t fall into.”
After the speech, the religious authorities of the La Moneda palace gave him an Original Human Rights vinyl to later listen to the interpretation of the same piece in the hands of the San Miguel Chamber Orchestra and the Choir of Neighbors and Residents Ecos de Esteban.
