This Saturday, the Minister of Social Development and Family, Giorgio Jackson, addressed the controversy that broke out this week, as a result of some old publications made by government authorities against Carabineros dating from previous years, but which have been revived in recent days.
Among the Secretaries of State, who were criticized for their old comments, is the current Minister of Economy, Nicolás Grauwho wrote on October 3, 2020: “Criminal and murderous pacos. I hope that all of you and your political bosses someday pay for all the damage caused.”
As a result of the above, this morning, the Minister of Social Development, pointed out in a conversation with CHV, that in these types of comments, “contexts it is important to take them into consideration, when analyzing what each of the people said”.
On the subject, and when asked if the tweets should be deleted, Jackson mentioned that the comments are part of “our history, we are not going to deny our past either, the important thing is what we are doing in the present and what we are going to do in the future (…) so that people are better”.
Regarding criticism from the opposition, where Minister Grau was even asked to resign from his post, Jackson argued that “Trying, for things that are said, to disable the democratic action of a government, it seems to me that it is a far-fetched way of how to invalidate the government’s action.”
“Therefore, as Minister (Carolina) Tohá said yesterday, probably many of the people who were in the government at the time of October 18, in the social outbreak, They wouldn’t say the things they said back then either.and they realized that lessons are learned”, he asserted.
To conclude the topic, the Secretary of State reflected on the situation and explained that “The fact that we all draw conclusions from that moment, and that we review the underlying situations of the criticism that was made, is something that we have to do at this time.