Affirming that his predecessors had failed in the attempt to seek social peace in the area, the Undersecretary of the Interior, Manuel Monsalve, referred to the conflict in La Araucanía and stated that in the current administration “we do not have the arrogance to think that we have the answer to a complex problem.
In conversation with the newspaper The South, Undersecretary Monsalve clarified that he does not intend to install the idea that it is a conflict that will be resolved in the short term. And he added: “what I can say is that precisely, bearing in mind the responsibility we have to build the conditions to live in a country in peace, what we have to guarantee is that we are making and guaranteeing the decisions that allow us to achieve that It will be the journey that will allow us to assess whether we were successful or not”.
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“I believe that previous governments tried in good faith. I do not doubt the good faith of the government of President Bachelet in seeking conditions, political agreement and social peace, nor do I evaluate the government of President Piñera in bad faith, which sought to achieve conditions of peaceful coexistence The concrete thing is that they have failed and we hope not to fail, but we do not have the arrogance to think that we have the answer to a complex problem and we are prudent, but we understand this as a problem with various answers, and if all of them are implemented, it will have results “, pointed out the head of the undersecretary’s office dependent on the Ministry of the Interior.
Monsalve addressed the possibility of lifting the State of Exception that currently governs La Araucanía and the provinces of Arauco and Biobío, noting that “to the extent that there is success in criminal prosecution and the organizations that commit crimes in the southern macrozone are disrupted, one could think of withdrawing it”.
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