translated from Spanish: A lot of noise, few nuts: Piñera’s first visit with Minister Delgado to La Araucanía does not convince and generates cross-cutting criticism

Lots of noise, few nuts. This could define President Sebastián Piñera’s visit to La Araucanía, his first trip with interior minister Rodrigo Delgado. The truth is that displacement sought to move the agenda and mark a milestone in its relationship with this area, however, the lack of concrete announcements and the vote of the second 10% withdrawal in Congress overshadowed the day.
Piñera was expected to specify in the area the appointment of a coordinator, who will be in charge – according to the Executive – of restoring the rule of law in the macrosur area. But there was no name on the table, and the Representative only commented on the profile of the office, a fact that motivated criticism even in the same official ranks.
“The efforts we are making in security and public order in the southern macrozone can act in a coordinated and unitary way, and improve the capacity of Chileans who want to live in peace, that we want public order, that we want to rule of law,” he said after meeting with the widow of Cape Carabineros, Eugenio Naín.
“The coordinator is going to be part of a team. There’s no Superman here who’s just going to solve this problem. He’s going to be part of a team, but he’s going to have an absolute, total and exclusive dedication to what’s going on in this southern macrozone, he’s going to be part of the Home Office team, and he’s going to be serving the Interior Minister and the President, and he’s going to be looking to coordinate with everyone who can contribute to this solution.” Explained.
In the meantime, asked on this point, Minister Delgado said that “the President has been clear that we are looking for the person very rigorously” and added that “we are redefining the functions, the plan”.
“Beyond where he has resided, three things are important: that he knows well the functioning of the State, a person who knows how the State as a whole works, that is validated within the State, of ministries, who can coordinate, manage, be autonomous in that management, but will obviously report to the Minister of interior and public security and to the President” Detailed.
 “It’s not enough to name a person”
But the mandate’s words did not satisfy even his own coalition. The senator of Evópoli, Felipe Kast, noted that while “the President’s announcement to be able to appoint someone with exclusive dedication to deal with the violence suffered by the southern macrozone is appreciated, we want to be clear that as parliamentarians of La Araucanía we do not know the plan”.
“Therefore, it is not enough to appoint a person. You need to know the strategy and the real empowerment that this person is going to have, to meet this very complex challenge,” he said.

In the same line, the president of Evópoli, Andrés Molina, who has decreed the freezing of relations with the Government, said he was “waiting to know the details of the plan, which is effectively what has to lead us to start a different path”.
However, the MEMBER said “to appreciate the President’s announcement to appoint a person with exclusive dedication to security tees in the macrozone (…). We hope it gets empowered, so that it really has the power to move forward.”
 “An experiment without a future”
For Senator Francisco Huenchumilla (DC), the appointment of a minister in charge for La Araucanía is simply a “experiment without a future”. “I don’t think it’s a solution that marks a turn,” he said.
“That recipe has been used before. Already in The Government of President Bachelet, there was a manager of the area. Here are legally installed authorities: there is the mayor, he is the representative of the President,” he said.
According to Huenchumilla, “there is a discouragement in the people of La Araucanía (…) All we have is that after time, come other presidential candidates, probably with nice programs, with a chapter dedicated to La Araucanía and its problems, and so we continue for more than 20 years. That’s the stark reality,” he said.
For Senator DC, the change in La Araucanía also goes through “a profound reform of Carabineros, because really all the facts show that there are never any guilty of anything here (…). He recently killed a young carabinieri, and the answer so far, none.”
In Huenchumilla’s view, “there is a problem of inefficiency of the policemen, and specifically of Carabineros, in which we do not actually have an intelligence system, which does not is to pursue: intelligence in democracy is investigating”
However, during the presidential visit, which also included meetings with victims of rural violence and an appointment with the Multigremial of La Araucanía, to present the latest developments in the social, political and economic plan of the region, Piñera did leave there a concrete announcement: a bill to decree a holiday of 24 June to commemorate the original peoples , date that also coincides with the celebration of the “New Year” or “We Tripantu”.

Original source in Spanish

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