The Chilean presidential elections are still far in the calendar and, nevertheless, their departments are politically hotter than the usual. It is already known about the existence of dozens of candidates who, naturally, will remain on the way long before the elections. The right, meanwhile, believes to be certain of his return to power, on March 11. The three most competitive applicants of that spectrum are tilted towards the most extreme positions, in one way and another, as if they work in tune with administration of Donald Trump. Surprisingly, there are two ultra -rightists willing to play all or nothing to inhabit the La Moneda Palace: José Antonio Kast, The son of a Nazi ex -official and republican candidate and, Johannes Kaiser, of the National Libertarian Party, much more attached to the ideology of Argentine Javier Milei. In front of them, Evelyn Matthei, from Vamos Chile, He faced a paradox: despite taking them out in the polls, he was lagging behind his considerations about the present and the past. Then he decided to be more locuaz and lasted than Kast and Kaiser. And to make differences, Matthei made a high defense of the last military dictatorship (1973-83) In the aspect that still causes perplexity, 52 years later, as the systematic violations of human rights have been.
“There was no other alternative,” he said about Salvador Allende’s wild overthrow The former mayor of the Coqueta Commune of Providencia, in Santiago, and former presidential candidate in 2013. “We were going straight to Cuba. What I want to point out is that probably at the beginning, in 1973 and 1974, It was very inevitable that he had deadbut already in 78, the 82, when they continue to occur, there no longer, because there was control of the territory. “And he added:” Then there I feel that there were people who did a lot of damage, logites that took over and that nobody stopped them in time. “
The last name Matthei is closely linked that period where the “loquitos” proliferated, because in 1978, His father, General Fernando Matthei, assumed as commander of the Air Force and then went on to integrate the Military Board headed by dictator Augusto Pinochet. The aviator has remained in Chilean history for being the first member of that triumvirate that recognized the triumph of the opposition in the plebiscite of October 1988 with which Pinochet tried to perpetuate himself in power.
Reactions
The daughter’s outbreak in the Santiago fall caused a certain bewilderment. There was no lack of analysts assigned to the expinochetist of his youth years a dose of political reasonability that promised a debate with height with the candidates of the ruling party, especially Carolina Tohámember until recently the cabinet of President Gabriel Boric.
Matthei tried to explain that he did not say what he had and that “all political sectors were responsible for the breakdown of democracy. Among them, the left that weakened the institutions and the rule of law, with the intention of bringing Chile to a totalitarian government, a project that most citizens rejected.” The coup was, ” Unfortunately, the result of a collective failure: The inability of politics to find a democratic way of solution to disagreements “.
“The Chilean candidate Vamos is in the first place in the surveys and has a real possibility of reaching the presidency. Its pronouncements have, therefore, acquired a May importancer. Perhaps, this unfortunate episode gives him something. Citizens are currently observing all candidates to draw some conclusion regarding who guarantees moral integrity, political temperance, national sense, commitment to freedoms in any circumstance. The challenge of joining Chileans is, without a doubt, the most demanding, “said the former communist and usual columnist in different media, Sergio Muñoz Riveros
“What Matthei points out is, in broad strokes, false. You can give many arguments of why the coup was not inevitable. It can be said, suddenly, that it was an event raised, funded and orchestrated by various power groups, national and foreign. There is a clear causality, which could have been avoided. And even in an adverse context created by these power groups, other solutions could be chosen. To say that it was inevitable is to be, philosophically, deterministic, “said the academic Fernando Arancibia Collao.
The victims speak
Different groups of express policies repudiated the candidate. “Mrs. MattheiIt was necessary that the ships of the Navy were converted into floating prisons, where tortured women were threatened to be thrown into the sea? “, They wondered in a public letter.” Was Matthei, who was systematically violated prisoners, students, settlers, workers and professionals, under officers like his father? “. They recalled that the Valech report, prepared after the institutional restoration,” certified that at least 316 violated women, eleven of them already pregnant. Among the first 229 they ended up pregnant with violations. “
Tohá, as well as the other two candidates of the ruling “denialist”. Beyond his attempt to mitigate the words, Matthei could not avoid an internal cost in his own space. Senator Francisco Chahuán presented his resignation to National Renewal (RN), the party of the former President Sebastián Piñera, to participate as an independent in the presidential primary of Chile Vamos.
