the Chilean president, Gabriel Boriche described as “brutal” the number of femicides that occur daily in Mexico, after PAN senators displayed banners alluding to the insecurity crisis in the country on their posts.
“I see in their desks -armchairs- not a political issue but a transversal one with the phrase “we miss them” and I imagine it has to do with the femicide, 11 women murdered every day here in Mexico, brutally. We don’t naturalize this kind of violence, we have to fight it together,” she said.
Boric, on the other hand, in his speech before the plenary session of the Senate, exhorted Mexican senators to deepen democracy “because in Chile we say it with great pride: when we have problems of coexistence, when we have differences between the various political sectors, the problems of our homeland we will always solve them with more democracy and not less”.
Before the plenary session of the Senate and the applause of the opposition senators for his speech and who reminded him with banners and slogans of President López Obrador’s proposal to make the INEHe replied: “It is not for me to get involved in domestic politics.”
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“We cannot look the other way at the political prisoners of Nicaragua”, he stressed amid the ovation of opposition lawmakers and moments after the Plural Group senators held up a large banner reading: “Boric does not protect a murderer in Nicaragua like AMLO”.
“We cannot look the other way in the face of the crisis Haiti is going through,” said the young Chilean president and former student leader, thanking the Mexican people for their solidarity with the exiles in their country after the military coup against Salvador Allende.
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“We cannot stand aside when human rights are violated in any Latin American country”, he insisted and clarified: “I do not come here to teach, in our country we have also recently suffered human rights violations and we know that here in Mexico has suffered a lot”.
He said that in Chile “we have learned that when human rights are violated in Latin America, one cannot remain silent.”
With information from Victor Gamboa
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