{"id":205186,"date":"2023-01-01T12:10:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T04:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=205186"},"modified":"2023-01-01T12:10:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T04:10:24","slug":"chile-11-social-protesters-and-one-guerrilla-pardoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=205186","title":{"rendered":"Chile: 11 social protesters and one guerrilla pardoned"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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SANTIAGO, Jan 1 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font pardoned 12 prisoners who had been arrested during the 2019 social protests and a former guerrilla who fought against then-dictator Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt the request of the President of the Republic, the Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Marcela R\u00edos Tobar, signed the private pardon in favor of eleven people, who, as the law requires, carried out the formal request procedure of the case\u201d, the Government said through a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among those pardoned are a 38-year-old man who was serving seven years and four months in prison for the attempted murder of an Investigative Police officer during a protest; a 22-year-old man sentenced to seven years in prison for damages to public furniture; and a 30-year-old man sentenced to three years for arson. The other beneficiaries were demonstrators imprisoned for throwing incendiary devices and shooting in the streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boric also granted a pardon to Jorge Mateluna, a former member of the Frente Patri\u00f3tico Manuel Rodr\u00edguez, who fought against the Pinochet dictatorship, and who in 2013 was convicted for participating in a bank robbery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During his campaign, Boric had promised to pardon all those protesters who had been jailed for crimes not related to injuries or attacks against people. \u201cIt is a commitment and I fulfill my commitments,\u201d Boric said from Vi\u00f1a del Mar, where he visited some of the victims of last week’s fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The president insisted that he made the decision \u201cthinking of the good of the country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have to heal these wounds, here we live a process that was tremendously complex and where these are young people who are not criminals. It is a personal commitment, these are complex decisions, but I assume them responsibly,\u201d Boric also pointed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the pardons, opposition politicians announced they would withdraw from all talks aimed at finding solutions to security issues. \u201cWhat I ask the opposition is that on issues such as how we confront crime we put people ahead of the political disputes we may have,\u201d Boric stressed. — NNN-MERCOPRESS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SANTIAGO, Jan 1 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font pardoned 12 prisoners who had been arrested during the 2019 social protests and a former guerrilla who fought against then-dictator Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. \u201cAt the request of the President of the Republic, the Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Marcela R\u00edos Tobar, signed the private […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":205188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205186"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205192,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205186\/revisions\/205192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/205188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}