As a group, we express our condolences to the family of the former president, but this does not mean letting the repression of the social outburst of 2019 pass, Gaby Rivera, president of Agrupación de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos (Association of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees) noted.

In the protests against the neoliberal model, some 30 people were killed and thousands were wounded, including more than 400 with eye injuries.

“Deaths, mutilated eyes and thousands of detainees are part of the legacy left by the former president. We regret that he has left without paying justice,” Rivera said.

Londres 38, in turn, warned that Piñera’s death is intended to install a forced transversal consensus around the democratic nature of the former president and his government.

This omits the causes and motivations of the outbreak, as well as the violent and criminal response from the State to the legitimate demands of the people, the organization said in statements published by Radio Universidad de Chile on Thursday.

Londres 38 calls to not forget any victim of human rights violations, to reach all truth and justice and for those responsible to be prosecuted as any other person, beyond their position of power.

In a message published in her X account, the president of Agrupación de Familiares de Ejecutados Políticos, Alicia Lira, regretted that the television newscasts cover Piñera’s death, while ignoring the deaths of 132 people and the tragedy of thousands of families affected by the fires in Valparaíso.

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