Human Rights
* Column published in the Daily Desk
The Concertación, and the left in general, bring together most of the victims of violations of Human Rights that are more than 20 years during the dictatorship. That is a fact as undeniable is that, for many of those affected and their families, the pain lingers to this day. If there is any historical wound by which Chile still suffer, it should be. But what happened 30 years ago can not allow sectors in Chile has created a monopoly of DD.HH. and that they alone to speak or report suspected abuse.
false cases disappeared have been reported in recent days may be considered as the error expected from a system that did not look for its rigor, but interest cover as many cases as possible. Thus, the narrow space exploitation and deception is open. In that sense, the first responsibility for these cases is not in government or in committees that were responsible for drafting the list of beneficiaries, but that falls on those who abuse the public trust, seek to enter these Categories for benefits deserve neither theirs. A have done great harm to the system and the families of the DD.DD. they see as a shameless group uses the struggles that they have staged.
But without doubt, a criminal prosecution of these subjects is not the only thing that should be done. The Government has a responsibility with this issue, as they are the first responsible for the proper use of public funds and compare those names on the lists correspond to reality. The allegations occurred in the latter time reveal the fragility of the system and the lack of transparency with which the Coalition has handled the matter.
For there to be transparency and access to information in the state, it is important that entities exist, whether politicians or citizens who have the ability to account for what we do and what not. On the issue of DD.HH., thanks to what happened during the dictatorship and the collusion of many of the agencies devoted to the subject, there are very few instances of accountability in this regard. The Coalition has undertaken to indemnify the last bastion of moral superiority they have left - apart from cases of corruption in democracy - and therefore the minister's statements as recently Vidal understand that logic. Lest the Coalition, heir to the historical struggle for DD.HH. ask them to come to account for the carve-up of benefits between themselves. Lest the "children of the dictatorship," as they like to call the right, especially now that they have a woman 30 years as inquisitive, come to lecture them about how they should recover damages for what happened three decades ago. In short, the Government has co-opted the DD.HH., confined only to what happened the last century and thus assuming a monopoly of the subject. In this regard, it is interesting to analyze the reaction of Lagos when Human Rights Watch issued a damning report to his government.
But this is not only guilt or responsibility from the ranks of the ruling coalition or the left. The right in Chile has allowed the disabled to comment maintain on these issues, by their own actions and omissions. The refusal to change the electoral roll and the refusal to modify the binomial have managed to continue to vote the same as Pinochet took to the 88 '. Therefore, there has been no proper renewal or amendment of the electors. For the current voting, the right is and always will be the heir of Pinochet and vote for them is to hand over power to the same sector as it had to take 20 years. If we add that political actors are the same and that the faces are repeated, the result is a coalition that will never stop reproached DD.HH. the subject of the rest and that will never hold the monopoly that is, until there is a right timid, who dares little by little to talk about, but never made a practice of taking past wrongs and to change the scenarios for discussion.
DD.HH. If we want to be the heritage of all and not a few in particular we need to create mechanisms to eradicate the insidious and destructive comments and pose a challenge for the future. If Chile wants to learn from past mistakes and look ahead with optimism, we can not continue to let logic prevail winners and losers, at least on an issue that concerns us all alike.
