“Today there are those who propose as a solution to current problems limiting freedoms, taking away the rights of women, dissidents, migrants, the elderly or workers, censoring, denying,” he added. “The problems of democracy are solved with more democracy and not with less,” said the Chilean president when he became more serious. And that is also to say that it makes sense to continue fighting,” said Boric. “May this commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the breakdown of democracy in Chile be of memory. “The problems of democracy are solved with more democracy” The Chilean searched the audience for Yanina, a young woman who was holding a photo of Lumi Videla, the sociology student and militant in the Revolutionary Left Movement assassinated by the Chilean military dictatorship. Gabriel Boric receives a hug from a child who was waiting for him in Madrid, after the event for the 50th anniversary of the military coup in Chile. He also granted a commemorative medal to Baltasar Garzón, the judge who in 1998 managed to arrest General Augusto Pinochet, the commander-in-chief of the Chilean army who carried out the bloody coup. She listened to the words dedicated to her by the Nicaraguan writer Gioconda Belli, a brand new Chilean citizen after the Daniel Ortega dictatorship in Nicaragua stripped her of her citizenship, and softly hummed a song sung by Ismael Serrano, as part of the tribute. On his first European tour as president of Chile, Gabriel Boric made a stopover in Madrid, where this Saturday he participated in an early commemoration for the 50th anniversary of the military coup that overthrew Salvador Allende on Septemin Chile.Įxcited and talkative, the youngest president in the history of his country -he turned 37 in February- enjoyed the event organized by Casa de América in Madrid: he hugged former Spanish president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and interviewed Joan in public Manuel Serrat, whom he decorated.
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