Over the weekend we woke up orphaned by the murder of a woman in uniform and we continue to see the indolence and lack of authorities to protect us. We woke up with a society that cries out in pain and that cries out for greater security, in the face of a crime that has become commonplace for Chilean men and women, and even worse, for the family of Carabineros de Chile.
Rita Olivares, Second Sergeant, mother, daughter, sister and friend, was murdered by criminals and fugitives from justice in Quilpué, after being shot in the head while trying to thwart an assault. A public servant, a compatriot, to whom we decided to hand over the arms monopoly to defend ourselves, but she could do nothing in the face of the lumpen and the crime unleashed in our country.
Do not be surprised by the inefficiency of those who govern the country, they are the same ones who jumped sanctifying the “dog kills pacos” and who praised a group that shouted “whore, maraca, never paca”, that is the true soul of this government, the same spirit that they tried to impose in the first constitutional project and that today we are called to change.
Attacking Carabineros is attacking democracy. But our current President, along with two of his ministers -Jackson and Vallejos-, while they were deputies, rejected the seven bills against violence, such as the anti-barricades law, the fireworks law, the Juan Barrios Law, the Law that demands the resignation to the use of violence in politics and the Critical Infrastructure Law.
Chileans do not suffer from amnesia, that is underestimating the millions of men and women who demand more security to live. Trust in him lasted until they tried to catapult the failed constitutional text, with extreme ideologies, where the State became lord and master and fragmented us as a society.
This is when we don’t believe a President who says he will sue, when he was against all the legal initiatives to give us more security. In a country where women are mostly heads of household, in a government that declares itself “feminist” and a President who says “we are going to be like dogs in pursuit of crime.”
Those words only sound like echoes and unfulfilled promises to the wind. Citizens are tired waiting for them to have a face and reality in the new Constitution that must be written, a mother of all laws that embraces us and does not violate us by pardoning criminals.
Ivonne Mangesldorff
Lawyer and Journalist
