Bachelet endorses Boric and called on all Chileans to vote
The former President of Chile Michelle Bachelet, currently UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, assured that she will vote for Gabriel Boric in next Sunday's Chilean presidential election.
“It doesn’t matter which candidate is voted for and that’s why I am going to vote for Gabriel Boric - and I want to make a call to all my compatriots to attend to vote,” Bachelet stated during her vacation in Chile through a video published by her foundation, Horizonte Ciudadano.
Boric, 35, congressman for the leftist Approve Dignity coalition, had advanced last night in the last presidential debate ahead of Sunday’s second round – in which he will face the far-right candidate José Antonio Kast, 55.
“We got together to talk (with Ms. Bachelet). We had a very good conversation,” Boric confirmed to the press. The congressman said that they had a “long” conversation in which they talked about “Chile, the world, the human and the divine”, without giving more details.
Bachelet, 70, had been president of Chile in 2006-10 and 2014-18, and remains popular. She arrived in Chile on vacation on Saturday to spend the Christmas and New Year holidays with her family.
At: https://blazetrends.com/bachelet-gave-his-support-to-boric-and-called-all-chileans-to-vote/
Chilean presidential candidate Gabriel Boric and former President Michelle Bachelet, who endorsed Boric today.
Bachelet, currently UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, called on voters to “guarantee a path of progress for all Chileans: A path of greater liberty, equality, respect for human rights, environmental sustainability - and the possibility of a new constitution” to replace the current Pinochet-era document.
Polling shows a tightening in the race between Boric and his far-right opponent José Kast.
Kast is the son of a Nazi officer, and the brother of a former central bank head during Chile's 1982-83 crash at the depths of the Pinochet regime.
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with her vote, and her comments to other progressive Chileans.
You may recall Michelle Bachelet, with her mother, and father, General Alberto Bachelet, were all imprisoned and tortured after Pinochet, with Richard Nixon's total support, seized Chile's government in a bloody coup. General Bachelet remained loyal to President Allende, and was designated an enemy of Pinochet's government.
Photo taken late in the life of General Bachelet, seen here with his daughter, Michelle.
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Former Chilean military officers jailed for 1974 death of President Bachelet's father
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The two men tortured general Alberto Bachelet, father of current President Michelle Bachelet, after his imprisonment for treason during the Pinochet regime
Associated Press in Santiago, Chile
Fri 21 Nov 2014 18.05 EST
Two retired Chilean military officers have been sentenced to prison for torturing to death the father of President Michelle Bachelet.
Judge Mario Carroza ordered colonels Ramon Caceres Jorquera and Edgar Cevallos Jones to serve three years and two years, respectively, for the 1974 torture of general Alberto Bachelet. The maximum possible sentence was five years.
General Bachelet was imprisoned for treason during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet because he had opposed the coup that ousted socialist President Salvador Allende. The regime also arrested then-23-year-old Michelle and her mother, Angela Jeria. The women were tortured in a secret prison for two weeks before they fled into exile.
“The fact that the trial ended and the truth that we knew from the start is finally known gives me lots of tranquility,” Jeria told local TV after the judge’s decision. “At the same time, it gives me hope that justice will come for all of those who were held with my husband ... and everyone else who suffered torture and repression.”
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/21/former-chilean-military-officers-jailed-death-father-president-michelle-bachelet
One would hope there are many, many Chilean people who are aware of the true sacrifice and service by the Bachelet family, and will be moved to take her words seriously when they vote next.
Thank you, peppertree.