President Boric in first commemorative activity of the 50th anniversary of the coup: “Security and Human Rights go hand in hand”

It was in La Castrina Park, in San Joaquín, the place that hosted the launch of the events commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Military Coup. President Gabriel Boric participated in a meeting that aimed to recognize the role of churches in the defense of human rights during the dictatorship. By way of kick, the President declared the concepts that will be discussed during the year when commemorating the suspension of democracy in Chile: “We are going to commemorate 50 years of the coup d’état of 1973 and we want to do it by staging three great ideas, three great concepts, memory, democracy and future.”
About 1,000 people attended. Among them, members of the Catholic and Evangelical Church, who witnessed the recognitions that were made at the ceremony. The Vicariate of Solidarity, the Committee for Peace, the National Committee for Aid to Refugees (Conar), the Foundation for Social Assistance of the Christian Churches (Fasic) and the Peace and Justice Service. There was a particular recognition, for Javier Egaña Barahona.
Boldos, quillayes and maitenes were presented in the form of awards to materialize the recognition of the protection of fundamental rights. Just after a week in which security and human rights have given something to talk about. The president made evident the apparently contradictory crossing and referred to the discussion that will be taken in the Senate: “I want to call on us to be reflective in these debates.”
Borci warned, like the minister spokeswoman, Camila Vallejo, his expectations regarding the processing of the Naín Retamal law: “We can reach that agreement so basic certain that security and Human Rights go hand in hand.” In addition, he commented that advances in security are contradictory when they advance without safeguarding human rights: “It is inexplicable that we can pretend to advance towards the right of citizen security, where we have to be very firm, without respecting human rights, that is a contradiction in which we cannot fall.”
After the speech, the religious authorities of the palace of La Moneda gave him an Original Vinyl of Human Rights and then listened to the interpretation of the same piece in the hands of the San Miguel Chamber Orchestra and the Choir of Neighbors and Inhabitants Echoes of Esteban.
 
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