translated from Spanish: Stoppage of gendarmes: the tense day of mobilization of officials and the Government’s negotiations

The radicalization of the protest of the gendarmes with the call to quartering in the shoot-out and the start of a hunger strike by officials placed the Government in trouble. Tension registered during the morning access to the criminal Santiago 1, when special forces of police were face to face with corrections officials, went on alert the authorities by impact media and politician of the fact.
Thus, during the day the Executive chose to avoid public statements, and instead moved the tabs in a series of meetings on several fronts, especially in La Moneda, with political authorities taking the reins of the business to return to the table broken bargain, get “white smoke” and avoid that you scaled the crisis.
In this scenario of intense efforts, Undersecretary of the portfolio could be seen in Palace to the Minister of Justice, Hernán Larraín, Juan José Ossa, the spokeswoman for Government, Cecilia Pérez and the interim director of the gendarmerie, Christian Alvear. In the midst of this panorama, it transpired that there would be a spokesperson of the Undersecretary Ossa, in whose hands the Executive has publicly put theme driving at the end of the day. Although, initially, it had pointed out that it would be the Minister of the Interior Andres Chadwick commissioned to fix the position of the Executive.
Anyway, at this point everything points to Interior, both from the officials as of the opposition. “From the Ministry of the Interior has ordered police enter the premises where we are more than 200 people inside leading, in a peaceful manner, our mobilization”, denounced Marcos Aburto, leader of the Association of civil servants Prison (Anfup), with regard to the incident in the morning in Santiago 1.
In that place, the gendarmes kept blocked revenues, with a clear slogan: “this land is ours, not going into our unit”. Thus, prevented the passage of the police officers who arrived with the intention of transferring inmates to the courts.
“Pinera is employing the same practices of dictatorship” in the world of civil servants, the police presence was interpreted as a provocation. “The Government intends to extinguish the fire with petrol, the intransigent position of the authority is not understood,” said the President of the civil servants Association of Gendarmerie (AFUSIG), Gonzalo Legal.
The leader also made a comparison complex for this Administration to point out that “to threaten us Piñera’s Government is using the same practices of dictatorship,” he said, alluding also to warnings of discounts and summaries that made on the eve the Undersecretary Ossa.
From the opposition, they also warned the currency. “Labour disputes are not solved, nor calm with violence or excessive police presence. It is not a way to put pressure on the Gendarmes, now urgent to have a peaceful and conversada solution,”said Deputy PS Gastón Saavedra, President of the Committee on the work of the Chamber of Deputies.
Another who questioned the Government’s strategy was Senator Alejandro Navarro. “This morning in the Santiago USEP, police and Gendarmerie officials almost clashed. If ordered the entry of the police uniform to the prison precincts, there is risk that this happens to older, what should be avoided”, warned.
Navarro recalled that “the Government militarized the speech noting that unemployment of gendarmes is illegal, and that undermines the State and today directs the functions of police bet on the prison premises, ready to make a forced entry”.
Called for dialogue while, Senator Alfonso PS Urresti expressed “should do everything possible so that the conflict of gendarmerie follow not climbing”, because “neither the strike of hunger or discounts to the mobilized helps to be aimed at a solution to this conflict”.
This call for dialogue was reinforced by the Deputy Chief of the Socialist deputies, Marcos Ilabaca, Caucus who arrived to Santiago criminal 1 to deliver the support and solidarity of the parliamentarians of the PS, in charge of correctional workers.
“Unfortunately, the State of Chile and not only the current Government, but that all Governments, are indebted to gendarmerie. So it is necessary that today the Executive feels a dialogue in the search for a solution to a problem that is dragged for years. “In this context, you we have applied to the Government, and will insist, to be open to dialogue”, said after meeting with the gendarmes.
The Chairman of the Working Committee also appealed to the Ministry of finance to “take on the issue and stop using messengers to solve the strike of workers of gendarmerie”. “As there is a deep problem in labour, social security and resources, we consider necessary to be the Finance Minister who accept responsibility and resolve the conflict. Moreover, we are talking about just demands of the workers, who can not be silenced with blood pressure”, said Saavedra.
In the midst of this panorama, the Senator Navarro announced that it would submit an application for protection “against the Ministers of the Interior and justice, thus is not possible as the Government of Sebastian Pinera solution to the demands of the Chile Gendarmerie officials” the use of force or the replacement of strikers.”
Concern to court the judiciary also took letters on the issue, and the Presidents of the courts of appeals of Santiago and San Miguel Dobra Lusic and Ana María Cienfuegos were formed in the Justice Center, where they have due remain the arrested, unable to be transferred to prisons. Its objective was to make a cadastre and review the situation of the accused spent the night in the dungeons. Tomorrow the judicial Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Lya hair, will also meet the conditions in which they are defendants.

Original source in Spanish

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