Chile: three points of the message Gabriel Boric

The new president of Chile, Gabriel Boric Front, in his speech put on the agenda eradicate the migratory crisis, social inequality, delinquency, violence against women, the struggle with the original peoples in the south of this nation, among others, are the great challenges that he will have in his four years in office, as detailed by the BBC World.

The youngest president in the history of Chile showed his support for the work of the Constitutional Convention that has proposed a new Magna Carta, and intends to carry out reforms in the pension, tax and health systems.

These are some of the most outstanding statements he made Gabriel Boric Front in his first speech as head of the Chilean state:

1. “In this first year of government we have set ourselves the task of enthusiastically accompanying our constituent process for which we have fought so hard. We will resolutely support the work of the Convention. We need a Constitution that unites us, that we feel as our own. A Constitution that, unlike the one that was imposed by blood, fire and fraud by the dictatorship, is born in democracy, on a parity basis, with the participation of indigenous peoples. A Constitution that is for the present and for the future”.

2. “We also know, compatriots, that we will face great challenges in the north and south. In the north due to the migration crisis where we are going to retake control of our borders and we will work together with our brother countries to collectively address the difficulties that the exodus of thousands of human beings entails. Let us never forget that they are human beings, please. I want to tell the people of Colchane, the people of Iquique, of Antofagasta, of San Pedro, that they are not going to be alone. To the people of Arica, by the way”.

3. “I mean that in the south we have a problem. The conflict that is not… before there was talk of the pacification of Araucanía, what a coarse and unfair term. Then some said the Mapuche conflict. No gentlemen, it is not the Mapuche conflict. It is the conflict between the Chilean State and a people that has the right to exist. We will work tirelessly to rebuild trust after so many decades, after so many decades of abuse and dispossession. The recognition of the existence of a people with all that this implies will be our objective and the path will be dialogue, peace, law and empathy with all the victims”.

The young president specified that Chile You will have to face situations of internal and external crisis where there is the possibility of errors on the part of your government; however, they will fix such problems with the “greater humility”.