Chilean social organizations claimed a social outbreak that occurred in October 2019

Published at: 15/10/2024 11:15 PM

Chilean social organizations issued a statement this Tuesday, October 15, claiming the social outbreak that occurred on October 18, 2019, five years after it, the Telesur website reported.

The organizations warn that there is an offensive by conservative and neofascist forces, which promote regressive policies in terms of democratic advances and human rights.

“Five years after the social revolt of October 2019, we are experiencing an offensive by conservative and neo-fascist forces, which promote regressive policies in terms of democratic advances and human rights at the global level,” the statement said.

In this regard, they maintain that “in Chile, this reality is expressed in the permanent obstacles to any change aimed at improving the living conditions of the population by deepening inequalities, as well as in the support of laws and repressive practices especially focused on criminalizing the just demands of students, residents and the Mapuche people.”

“The objective of this narrative is to inhibit the just struggle of the people of Chile to achieve social transformations that end the unjust social order inherited from the civic-military dictatorship and then administered by successive governments,” the text emphasized.

They also called for “the full validity of the demands for structural changes and a new model of society that ends the concentration of economic power, institutionalized abuse and unjust inequality, opening the way to the recovery of political sovereignty through a New Constitution that is legitimate at its origin”.

As well as the complete “exercise of economic sovereignty through the recovery of basic wealth, making it possible to overcome the current Subsidiary State, which constitutes an insurmountable obstacle to the proper protection and guarantee of human rights”.

The statement held President Gabriel Boric responsible for “dismissing his commitment to carry out a profound reform of the Carabineros, a police institution responsible for the vast majority of human rights violations committed, also strongly supporting its Director General, Ricardo Yáñez Reveco, accused in numerous judicial proceedings and before the International Criminal Court, as well as Sebastián Piñera and other authorities responsible for the repression.”

At least 35 organizations signed the document, including the Chilean Human Rights Commission, the Coordinator of Victims and Relatives of Victims of Ocular Trauma, the Group of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees, and others.

Mazo News Team