translated from Spanish: Foreign Intervention: Doubts about Blumel’s Big Data report

The controversy over the Government’s background over an intervention by international organizations behind the social outburst of 18 October has deepened this week. The cross-declarations between La Moneda and the National Prosecutor, Jorge Abbott, whether it was data obtained only “open sources” or whether it was effectively “sophisticated information” only increased the criticisms within the officialism itself about the strategy that the pine-eyed administration is using to address research.
On Thursday, December 19, Interior Minister Gonzalo Blumel gave a background to prosecutor Abbott, a document he said contained “extraordinarily sophisticated information based on Big Data technology analysis, which gives background records that are important for criminal investigation.” After two months of strong statements regarding the President, Sebastián Piñera, below, these were the first government statements accompanied by concrete evidence.
Despite the words of the Interior Minister, the National Prosecutor insisted that it was not “intelligence information” and added that “we have, indeed, some indications that there are more than some person or small large grouping of people who may have committed certain criminal acts.”
The question on the right is who built the report and why, Minister Blumel did not wait for the intelligence department to make official delivery of the background to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, which was scheduled for this Friday, December 20, free of charge, they added, “in unnecessary controversy to the government.”
Although most officialism believes in the thesis that President Piñera himself has emphasized in media on foreign intervention, “no one knows where the report comes from” and that once again the government’s defense is “disorderly and erratic because of the minister Of the Interior.”
Suspicions have pointed these days that Secom might have been behind the report, because Jorge Selume is the palace specialist in Big Data, but from that secretariat they stressed that they had nothing to do with the analysis of the report delivered by the Minister of the Interior and they don’t know where he came from either.
Viewed by El Mostrador, the Ministry of the Interior did not respond to whether the report was based on the information provided by intelligence or whether it had been made by the Government.

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