Minister Izkia Siches apologized to her predecessor in the Interior, Rodrigo Delgado, after admitting that she had given wrong information when talking about an alleged flight with migrants expelled from Chile, who had to return to the country with all the passengers.
The Minister of the Interior, Izkia Sichesapologized to the previous government, assuring that it delivered erroneous information when speaking this Wednesday, about a flight with expelled migrants, which had returned to Chile with all the passengers.
“Today in the security commission of the Chamber of Deputies and Deputies I issued incorrect information. For this, in a republican spirit, I apologize to Rodrigo Delgado and his team,” said the Minister of the Interior.
Today in the security commission of the Chamber of Deputies and Deputies I issued incorrect information. For this, in a republican spirit, I apologize most sincerely to @RodrigoDelgadoM and your team. https://t.co/G4IgDvzs6W
– Izkia Siches Pastén (@izkia) April 7, 2022
Accusation of Siches
During the course of this Wednesday, Siches denounced in the Security Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, that during the previous government a plane with foreigners expelled from the country was returned to Chile with all the passengers.
“We identified that one of the planes from the expulsions that were made to Venezuela, returned with the same people, and we had no idea (…) with all the passengers expelled!” Siches commented before the deputies.
In addition, he stressed that this fact had no media coverage and congratulated the previous Executive for preventing it from being news.
“I want to point out now that if we did that, it would be the cover of La Segunda the same day. My congratulations to the previous government because it had the capacity to cover this with earth, because it is something very serious, with the amount of resources”, he indicated.
But after these statements, different authorities and collaborators of the Government of Sebastián Piñera, denied the information given by Siches, calling her to provide more information in this regard.
Delgado’s response
One of these former authorities was the predecessor of Siches in the Interior, Rodrigo Delgado, who dismissed the accusation and asked him to make the background information transparent after his complaint, such as the date of the flight or the list of passengers.
“I absolutely rule out the statements made by Minister Siches in the chamber’s security commission and I ask her to now disclose the specific background of her complaint, date of the flight and list of passengers who would have returned to Chile,” Delgado commented.
Finally, the former president of the Medical College apologized for her actions and acknowledged that she had made a mistake in providing information.