time in The currency are nervous, worried. Camilo Catrillanca crime is more than a stone in the shoe or a conflictive political problem that has not been able to get of the courtyards of La Moneda, since has become a crisis for the Government of Sebastian Pinera, because from the first day they lost all control of the situation, on the public agenda, all political and communicational management has been erratic and internal differences in Palace have been exposed. But also, because the Minister of the Interior, Andrés Chadwick, the key man of the President, the part on which is based the political stability of the current administration, has been damaged, weak, beaten.
The Minister lives its moment of greatest weakness, even considering their role in the first Government of Pinera, because, unlike all the conflicts and crisis that has drawn, which broke out after the death of Catrillanca the first to not only fails to settle quickly and ha handily, as it is his custom, but in addition it sharpened and deepened by their own mistakes. The first and foremost was balance without an iota of doubt with Carabineros, defend the jungle command and, therefore, assume the initial political decision of treating the death of the young villager in the context of a made delinquent. There were derived many of the headaches that have these weeks in La Moneda.
The first consequences are plausible. The lower supports and highest disapproval are not just for Chadwick, that – according to survey Cadem – spent 58 percent of back-up to 45%, but that the facts they have splashed to the figure of the President Piñera, who came to 38 percent of support the lowest since he took office this second mandate on March 11.
The own ruling assumes that Chadwick – a figure very across the media in the political spectrum, as defend it its near – fell victim to “the meat grinder” which means to be in charge of the Ministry of the Interior, so it has begun to pay the costs of (l) charge. ” The aura of infallibility was dropped, is slit him superhero layer”, they confessed from the heart of the pinerismo.
Added to the political decision that there was to deal with the case, the role of the Minister of the Interior and public security is responsible for political police, institution that, until now, hasn’t done more to drag with force the Government to field more swamp of these eight months. Questions with general director Hermes Soto, supported in the countless versions that have been disproved as the investigation progresses bounce directly in the figure of Chadwick as much as you try, now, take away from the police uniform.
For political analyst from the University of Chile, Axel Callis, is convincing the symptom of loss of control, since “the day that a Minister is shielded, that same day starts more a problem than a solution (…). “Chadwick has no control over police and that generates a weakening that will last will depend on at all times and for all the research, know if what he says Hermes Soto is true or false: up to the minute, pure lies”.
The director of the Center for analysis of the Universidad de Talca, Mauricio Morales, points out that the weakness of Chadwick is outside the walls of La Moneda, not internally in the Government, because “in political terms is still a strong man, who has no replacement”.
That’s true. In all the ruling and at the heart of the Executive you know that there is space to think of Chadwick to take a step to the side, but therefore not just concerned that the key man of the currency fall under “Hinzpeter syndrome”. The first Minister of the Interior which took Piñera in his first term was Rodrigo Hinzpeter, whose figure ended up channelling all reject citizen after a series of crises with dubious handling, as they were the cases of Freirina, the student movement or the dismantling in courts of the pump case.
“Is endured to Hinzpeter, much, because the truth Pinera did not want to get, because I had nobody who put and ended badly weakened. To Chadwick can pass the same”, was sentenced on the right.
The analysis and internal assessments in the currency of these weeks have remained under seven keys, even for the pro-government parties themselves, precisely to avoid leaks that foster the crisis facing the Government with the Catrillanca case. Inevitably the internal diagnostics should be shared with the entire Cabinet, Ministers and undersecretaries in the conclave which will take place Friday and Saturday in Quillota School of Cavalry of the army, although in Palace hope after that you follow in Book your content.
The giro in Government discourse has had everything, less subtlety. It began with the absolute backing acting police station and in particular the jungle command in La Araucanía, which was deployed by the former Mayor Luis Mayol, Chadwick, own President Piñera and the Minister spokeswoman Cecilia Pérez. But three weeks after the crime of Catrillanca, destroyed images of through by one of the police officers and checking that there was never a confrontation, the official position of the Government – without many alternatives at this point – mutated radically.
The best proof of this were the statements of President Piñera in the interview yesterday at Radio Bio Bio: “already have been committed many errors, many Governments, for blindly trusting the first version of Carabineros. “Remember the case a hurricane, remember earlier versions of the death of Camilo Catrillanca and, therefore, as President of the Republic, I asked (director of Carabineros) General, who surrendered all the background information to the Prosecutor’s Office”, said categorical, together add that demanded the police chief “to tell the truth, that they hide nothing”.
It is not much the margin of action with that feature in La Moneda, have clear that Piñera words are far away for now can get to try to remedy the mistakes, but that can not remove all the political floor to police. There are many who have fresh memories of what happened to former President Michelle Bachelet, when after having strongly criticized the institution, after the aggression suffered by student Rodrigo Avilés – product of a jet of a car police lanzagua in a protest, which almost caused the death – uniformed police made to feel his discomfort with the civil power with a passive attitude on the street, a kind of sit-in demonstrations in.
Internal rebellion to the day after the death of Catrillanca, the Minister of Social development, Alfredo Moreno – whose portfolio is which should be the subject of La Araucania – publicly acknowledged the death of the young villager complicated the development of promotion Plan La Moneda had been released not long ago to settle the problems in the region. His words earned him a call to ground of Chadwick and had to correct them few hours later, the official version in Palace of the Minister of the Interior had been that said program was stronger than ever.
Moreno was not the only one, and days later, the Minister of Justice, Hernán Larraín, gave dead Plan Araucania. It was also reprimanded from the Palace, but the signal was clear: had an internal struggle in La Moneda, a clash of visions over the way in which the Government should handle the subject of La Araucanía and, clearly, discrepancies of how had taken until this minute the AC case trillanca.
Far from silent, Sunday, December 2, Moreno returned to speak. In an interview with El Mercurio said that his first reaction upon learning of the death of Catrillanca, “independent of that obviously did not know what were the circumstances, was a huge penalty”. A phrase that was not by chance, considering that one central discrepancies with Chadwick in recent weeks was the little sensitivity shown by the Minister of the Interior.
Insisted that after this episode “there has been a setback”, who in the Government work so that cases are not repeated as the young villager, “to his family and people who want it” and is the central problem in La Araucanía “mistrust”.
In the ruling party has not gone unremarked this interview. They said that it is a clear sign of the weakness of Chadwick, because after having been called to ground, Moreno went back to mark public position, which would not have happened never – added – if the Minister of the Interior were not struck politically by his erratic handling of the crisis.
