The Government of Chile paid tribute to the 37 journalists executed and disappeared during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990).
The president of the South American country, Gabriel Boric, participated in the event, held on Tuesday as part of the Journalist’s Day in Chile, together with relatives of the victims and human rights organizations. A plaque was unveiled in memory of these communicators, located on the outskirts of the press office of the La Moneda palace, headquarters of the Executive.
“In honor of their vocation and courage, and so that we never remember them again”, the plaque can be read, on which the names of the 37 journalists appear.
The president pointed out that this act seeks to “keep alive” the memory and struggle of these communication workers. “On this Journalist’s Day and 50 years after the coup (of Pinochet), we advance with memory, democracy and the future,” Boric emphasized.
“Being able to commemorate in La Moneda today the journalists murdered during the dictatorship illustrates the country we are and have built, with the pains and joys that forge us,” said the Minister Secretary General of the Government of Chile, Camila Vallejo.
Among the honored journalists is José Tohá, who died on March 15, 1974, after being arrested and tortured. He served as Minister of the Interior in the government of Salvador Allende and is the father of the current holder of that portfolio, Carolina Tohá. with RT
