Lectures: 203
The authoritarian drift of the right and ultra-right amplified by the hysteria of the morning shows and the traditional written media is already an overflowing torrent that is very difficult to channel. Yesterday the Chamber of Deputies approved five projects on the security agenda in an unusual way, most of them simple effective regulations that aim at increasing penalties and prohibitions that will end up placing more obstacles for citizens than for those who are supposedly directed.
A risky spectacle that already has human rights in its sights as an object of debate. Evelyn Matthei’s statements that justified the human rights violations during the popular revolt, with dozens of deaths and hundreds of mutilated, are not unfiltered words but rather the lure of a highly skilled and experienced and already old politician who does not hide her admiration for the dictatorship. Matthei, and we know her origins and trajectory well, made a provocative gesture, more like a grimace, to place a simile, a perverse comparison on the agenda between the dictatorship, the coup, and today’s increase in crime. That, she heard the morning gallery, she resolves with more attributions to the police.
Rodolfo Carter
The stage is open and accepts guests. Rodolfo Carter, the pro-UDI populist mayor of Florida, who is another favorite of the matinees and the terrified audience, arrived at the funeral of Rita Olivares along with the cameras and the support in the polls. Carter is on the rise no matter what he does: according to Cadem, 87 percent of those consulted agree with the demolition of drug traffickers’ houses.
They booed President Gabriel Boric in Villa Alemana at the funeral of the murdered police officer. It wasn’t his best audience, possibly made up of police relatives, but he had no other choice. But it was not necessary to kneel again before the right by denying his previous criticism of the police for the crimes during the social outbreak. One more delivery to the agenda of the right, which today seems to have infiltrated the very conscience of the government.
The right seeks impunity for policemen and prepares the Nain Retamal law in homage to two murdered policemen. Yesterday he approved five proposals in a few hours and this afternoon he presents his own project already endorsed by the Minister of the Interior who calls on the two government coalitions to approve it. With this trigger-happy law, the Carabineros will not answer for their actions and the authoritarian drift will not stop.
The right imposes its agenda and the government executes it.
