The Commander in Chief of the Navy, Admiral Juan Andrés de la Maza, personally offered his apologies to President Gabriel Boric and the Minister of Defense, Maya Fernández, for the controversial speech of former Admiral Miguel Ángel Vergara at the last meeting of the Maritime League of Chile, an opportunity in which he called on the members of that branch of the Armed Forces to be willing to make a “boarding” against an “enemy”. internal” that threatens the future of the country.
According to Emol, a source said that Admiral De la Maza made the gesture at the Navy Command. “While they were having a coffee, there were several authorities of the Armed Forces and parliamentarians present. He presented them with personal and institutional apologies,” the source reportedly told Emol. Admiral de la Maza was, by the way, one of the guests at the lunch that takes place every year within the framework of the commemoration of the Day of Naval Glories.
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“The Commander-in-Chief says before everyone that Vergara’s statements do not represent the institution and that there is no internal enemy. That Chile’s enemy is outside the country. There were between 100 and 200 guests,” the witness said, according to the diqrio. The same source said that Boric “thanked De la Maza’s words and said that the internal enemy was not in the country but inside us, which is cowardice, intolerance and that it had to be faced. Prat’s example of courage and bravery had to be followed.”
“He also recalled an anecdote, that when he was young he had friends who were children of sailors and that they managed to share little time in Magallanes because they were transferred,” he added.
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