translated from Spanish: Women from Quintero and Puchuncaví reject statements of Minister Schmidt: her words “remind us of Joseph Goebbels”

The Quintero and Puchuncaví Women of Sacrifice Zone in Resistance group issued a statement rejecting the claims of Environment Minister Carolina Schmidt, who assured the p decontamination “is clearly better than before.” 
“The statements that today Sunday, September 1, the Minister of the Ministry of the Environment of the Government of Sebastián Piñera has made in the TV program National State, reminds us of (Joseph) Goebbels,” the statement says, alluding to whoever was minister for the Public Illustration and Propaganda by Adolf Hitler, who in the 1940s “tried to hide the genocide of the Jewish people in the gas chambers in the concentration camps,” the missive argues.
“His claims are so distant and untruthful of what we live in the Communes of Puchuncaví and Quintero, that they make us reflect on the political meaning of their actions, and the tragic similarity of the horrendous situations that the Hitler Regime and the Government of P they have tried to hide,” they added.
The group further asserts that “since last year’s great environmental crisis, 2018, it has become clear that in the industrial complex there are companies that use highly dangerous gases without control of the authorities, gases that are even banned in the planet since 1989 (Montreal Protocol) and in the country, since 2015, as methyl chloroform”.
“Clearly the Minister of the Environment presents in her speech a fantasy reality that has nothing to do with the reality we face in this territory of Puchuncaví and Quintero.”
Moreover, they consider that the Secretary of State’s speech is intended to conceal the “complicity of the current government with this systematic criminal action. This has been evident with the poisoning of more than 40 people recently in Ventanas, just a few weeks ago, exactly on the 20th of August just last. Exactly one year since the start of last year’s crisis.”
In the statement, they also mentioned that since the 1960s, in the communes of Puchuncaví and Quintero, there is an industrial complex that “pollutes in ruthless form sea and land of the ecosystem and violates the rights to life and health of Chileans who v we go into them.”
“The Supreme Court at the end of last May, in a landmark ruling, responding to several Protection Resources, brought against the state of Chile and the companies of the Industrial Complex, established that authorities of the Ministries of Environment and Health and other Services such as ONEMI have committed negligence and serious omissions, crimes against the inhabitants of these Communes. Ordering a number of substantive measures to remedy the situation of the inhabitants of these Communes,” they note.
“And the Minister draws cheerful accounts, deceiving public opinion, referring to a bad decontamination plan that does not regulate or normate the unknown gases lurking in the towns of the Communes of Quintero and Puchuncaví.”
Finally, they questioned, “What can we expect from an executive branch with these fundamental ethical failures?”

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