translated from Spanish: Sichel’s strategic “disobedience”

This is not the first time that the Minister of Social Development, Sebastián Sichel, has “started with the jars” and appears against the backof the official palace discourse. He had already done so as soon as the social outburst began in October, when in the midst of a government discourse attached to the criminalization of the phenomenon, the novel chief of portfolio said: “We cannot put the wagon before the oxen: Believing that the problem is the passage of not to understand that the problem is Chile’s inequity.”
A phrase that earned him more than one call to order inside The Currency those days.
Case two months later, on Monday 16 the scene was repeated again. Standing between the sword and the wall, the minister chose to prevent the internal front of La Araucanía from being set on fire and gave a signal about the debate of the new Constitution that goes in the opposite line to that of the President, Sebastián Piñera, who – as reported palace- does not believe in reserved seats either in the Constituent or Mixed Convention, as it believes that other “minority” groups could also go out to demand the same treatment and ask for guaranteed quotas.
In an interview with Radio La Clave, Sichel said yesterday that “it is an issue that parliamentarians must address (…) I think there has to be special representation of indigenous peoples in the constituent committee or in the constituent convention – if that’s what citizens resolve – but it makes sense that there is special representation, because there are different interests that it has to have a different political demonstration in the council. How? that the parties will solve it.”
Unlike his departure in October, the one that was inthe case in what could be considered as a beginner’s mistake, this time what he deserved for the Minister of Social Development – they explained in the Government – was the context and chose not to open a new flank of conflict. If he did not translate that speech, he sentenced in La Moneda, “the Araucanía was burned”.
It is worth remembering how difficult it has been for this administration to be able to carry out any of its plans in the IX Region. The indigenous consultation was ruled out despite the opposing position of the palace and the once pompous Plan Araucanía, ended up deflating after the murder of Camilo Catrillanca in August 2018.

Original source in Spanish