The president of the Republic, Gabriel Boricin the middle of a joint press conference with his Argentine counterpart, Alberto Fernandezwas asked about human rights violations in Latin America in countries with left-wing rulers.
It should be remembered that the president is in the neighboring country making his first presidential state visit. After holding bilateral meetings between his Argentine counterpart and his ministers, both held a press conference.
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In this scenario, a journalist from the The nation from Argentina, commented to Boric: “You, in a recent interview -with an Argentine media outlet- said: ‘It cannot be that when human rights are violated by governments that are considered related we look aside, and when they are violated by governments that we consider adversaries, let us shout to the heavens”.
“This search for the unity of Latin America also includes questioned countries whose lack of respect for human rights, such as Cuba, Venezuela or Nicaragua?” asked the trans-Andean journalist.
Boric’s reply
Given this, the President responded that “the problem is that there are some sectors of the left with a double standard in terms of human rights, so do sectors of the right when they speak only of the triad Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and journalism permanently reproduces.
“Why do the media always ask me about Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, and they don’t ask me about human rights violations, for example, in our country (Chile) or the murders of social leaders in Colombia?” the president replied. .
He also added that “human rights must be fully respected and our State must promote them fully in all parts of the world, regardless of the government that violates them.”
“As President of Chile I am not going to make a distinction and we are going to promote, together with our Foreign Minister who was president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, a single line, and let us not use the suffering of peoples, whether in Ukraine, Yemen, in Palestine, Chile, Venezuela, in Nicaragua; wherever it is to try to take advantage of internal policies, because that happens constantly and those who end up harmed the most are the peoples who suffer,” he concluded.
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