Chile’s Interior Minister and head of the cabinet of ministers, Izkia Siches, is once again embroiled in a controversy on the other side of the mountain range.

On Wednesday, he accused the previous government of hiding the fact that one of the 29 flights carried out on deported foreigners returned with all its passengers due to lack of coordination. But later he had to admit that the information was wrong and apologize.

“We determined that one of the planes from the expulsions made in Venezuela returned with the same people, and we have no idea (…) that all the passengers were expelled!” Siches commented in front of parliamentarians of Venezuela’s Internal Government Commission. the House of Deputies and Deputies on Wednesday.

“Where are those people, who have a judicial indication of eviction? This is very serious, for the same reason when we make evictions, we must guarantee that the same will not happen to us, ”he added.

The Mediabanco news agency released the juice from the intervention and removed the controversy.

Doubts

Within a few hours, various sources were consulted Clarionsuch as the Investigative Police (PDI) or Michelle Bachelet’s former director of migration, Rodrigo Sandoval, doubter of the definite probability that such an event took place.

In fact, according to the information provided, the deportation protocol implies preliminary coordination with the destination country, since “the Chilean police must hand over the deportees to the authorities of the other country, once the plane has landed.”

From Sebastián Piñera’s group of government officials, the former director of the Immigration Service, Alvaro Bellolio, pointed out that every flight with deported persons requires the receipt of coordination approval. Otherwise, “they don’t get on the plane,” he said.

Moreover, Minister Siches – ironically – conveyed to the commission his “congratulations to the previous government because it has the ability to cover it with land, because it is something very serious, in the amount of resources.”

That cover -up involved the civil police as well as the Judiciary, because for them to return to Chile the original deportation had to be revoked. Something unlikely in that country, where the Supreme Court prides itself on its independence from political power.

Late in the morning, and before the wave of criticism and the inability to present a document proving his imputation, Siches he went out to apologize on twitter and to point out that the information he provided was “incorrect”..

other controversies

From the ruling party, primary responsibilities point to his group of advisers. Siches surrounded himself with young officers who had joined him in the past as union leader for doctors.

The main ones are Roberto Estay, José Peralta, Matías Libuy and Christian Amangual. None of them have political experience. In the opinion of socialist senator José Miguel Insulza, “there are people here who handle information incorrectly. Someone is clearly responsible for not doing the work. “

Siches entered La Moneda Palace on Thursday to meet with President Gabriel Boric, who had just returned to the country on Wednesday from his state visit to Argentina.

Criticism from enemies and allies

In just four weeks, the Secretary of State led three controversies in which he received criticism from the opposition, but also from his coalition.

The first of these was his frustrated visit to the Mapuche community of Temucuicui, where he was met with bullets and unable to visit. On that occasion, he and his team were accused of “improvisation”.

He then starred in the Boric government’s first international conflict. Siches began coining the term Wallmapu to refer to the area inhabited by the Mapuche. A place that, for those people, is also understood in the territory of Argentina. For the same reason, he was criticized for endorsing the desire for sovereignty over an Argentine territory.

Finally, the controversial statement about those deported to Venezuela opened one side with the opposition, defender of the management of the Piñera government.

On Thursday, at a press conference, Boric was asked to make a decision about his continuation and that check your resignation, kasi “she has broken all trusts and we cannot understand each other with her in Congress.”

If they don’t get answers, congressmen added that they will use “all constitutional tools” at their disposal to deal with the situation, without ruling out impeachment.

Santiago, special

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