translated from Spanish: Bloomberg by Camilo Catrillanca crime: “this case threatens to splash to the billionaire President Sebastián Piñera”

“The murder of a young man by the police occurred last week in the South of Chile rekindled the conflict with the mapuche people, which has been extended over the centuries and threatens to splash the mul timillonario President Sebastián Piñera”. So begins a note of Bloomberg on the death of the young mapuche farmer shot by the police.
The analysis of the American Agency details how a militarized squad shot to Camilo Catrillanca in the head while he was driving a tractor near the town of Ercilla, after arise versions of a violent robbery of vehicles in the area. “The Government later reported that an officer destroyed the camera with which the incident was filmed,” adds.
Bloomberg says that the murder of Catrillanca happens eight months after that Piñera returned to power after a campaign in which he promised to impose law and order in the Region of la Araucanía, which records a wave of arson attacks, many of them against forestry companies such as CMPC.
“The mapuche, who did not lose their independence until the Decade of 1880, are demanding greater autonomy. The creation by Piñera in a special unit, dubbed by the local media as the jungle command, threat now to be counterproductive, since the death of Catrillanca generated protests in the capital, Santiago,”he says.
“This death symbolizes the failure of the plan by the Government to the Araucanía”, said Kenneth Bunker, Chilean political analyst and a visiting professor at the Sapienza University of Rome. “Errors like this allow that the opposition is an anti-Government and that is what is happening at this time, the Government will be in trouble,” said Bunker to the Agency with headquarters in New York.
The medium adds that “coalition Government, made up of four conservative parties, lacks a majority in the Chamber of deputies or the Senate, forcing Pinera to negotiate with clusters of Centre and left if you want to live up to electoral promises important as reforming the welfare system, improving health care and bring peace to the Araucanía”.
Jungle command “Piñera approach on the conflicts in Chile, being hard on crime, has a cost,” said Bunker. “The Government is giving the opposition reasons to not negotiate because nobody wants to talk with a Government that is not popular”.
At this point, the Agency reminds that Piñera approval fell to 41% last week and stands at its lowest point since he began his second term in March, according to a weekly survey by Cadem and published on Monday.
Created in June, the jungle command is equipped with bullet-proof vests, drones and high-tech communications systems. The Group received training in Colombia on new techniques to fight terrorism, according to a statement from the Presidency, indicates Bloomberg.
“I hope that this is the beginning of a new era in this beautiful region,” said Pinera in June.
After the death of Catrillanca, the President Tweet that the incident was “unfortunate” and added that the police have “the duty to prosecute crimes and right to defend themselves when they are attacked”. Since then, more revelations of misconduct by the police have come to light and United Nations, Amnesty International and the Institute of human rights of the country called to carry out a thorough investigation, completes the report from the Agency.

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