Evelyn Matthei, daughter of a member of the Military Board during the coup of Augusto Pinochet, said: “There was no other alternative.”
The presidential candidate of the Centrodécha Chile Vamos Centrodecha Evelyn Matthei, He claimed the military coup in the neighboring country in 1973, in which Augusto Pinochet overthrew a Salvador Allende, and endorsed the crimes committed at the beginning of the process.
“It was necessary. If not, we were leaving Cuba. There was no other alternative”said the former mayor of the commune of Providencia, who is the daughter of the Minister of Health, member of the Military Board and Commander in Chief of the Air Force during the Pinochet dictatorship, Fernando Matthei.
“What I want to point out is that probably at the beginning, in 1973 and 1974, It was very inevitable that they had deadbut already in 78, 82, when they continue to occur, there no longer, because there was control of the territory. So there I feel that There were people who did a lot of damage, loquitos that took over and that nobody stopped them on time“, broad.
Gabriel Boric’s response to Evelyn Matthei’s comments about the last dictatorship
After the candidate’s comments, the president Gabriel Boric responded by X and argued that “The coup in Chile is not justifiable”.
“The dictatorship was criminal and illegitimate from September 11, 1973 to 03/11/1990. Nothing justifies the murders, the disappeared, torture, exile. Neither 73, 74, 83, 85, or the year it may be. Democracy always”said the Chilean president.
Source: Ambito
