After double homicide in Macrozona Sur: Government will continue requesting to extend the State of Emergency | National

The Minister of the Interior, Rodrigo Delgado, confirmed that as a Government they will continue to request the extension of the State of Emergency in the four provinces of the South Macrozone, until March 11.

Rodrigo Delgado, Minister of the Interior, assured that they will continue requesting extend the state of emergency which governs four provinces of the South Macrozone, until the change of command on March 11.

According to the minister, he published Emol, Boric will have to decide “what he deems convenient” to deal with the acts of violence that affect the South Macrozone, especially in the Bío Bío and Araucanía regions.

This was pointed out after the double homicide that was recorded during the day on Friday in the Carahue commune.

Information handled by Radio Bío Bío reveals that at least five vans, some of them with tinted windows, intercepted the vehicle in which the victims were traveling, which died after receiving a series of shots, some of them in the head.

Then, those responsible would have headed towards the commune of Tirúa, in the Bío Bío region.

“Apparently that too. could be related to reckoning”Delgado said as published by Emol.

Finally, Delgado indicated that the Government considers that the State of Emergency has been an important strategy and that up to now has left 118 people detained, emphasizing that the next administration must make the decision it deems appropriate.

Parliamentarians for four deaths in a week in the South Macrozone

Parliamentarians from La Araucanía asked to decree a State of Siege for the South Macrozone, after they registered four deaths from armed attacks in less than a week.

The National Renewal deputy, Miguel Mellado, pointed out that as a RN bench they are asking for decree State of Siege, since the State of Emergency, he affirmed, is not giving results in the southern Macrozone. Measure that was discarded by Delgado.


From Evópoli, the president of the community and parliamentarian for the area, Andrés Molina, called on the incoming authorities to visit the region.

Next Tuesday, January 25, a special session will be held in the Chamber of Deputies to discuss the measures arranged by the Government to deal with the wave of violence within the framework of the State of Emergency arranged in the South Macrozone.

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