Bachelet attributes the advance of the extreme right in Latin America to social insecurity

The former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet assured this Tuesday in Mexico that the far-right projects in Latin America they are a setback for democracy and arise from fear and social insecurity.

“There is a very important movement backwards and I want to understand why this is happening in various countries in the region. I want to believe that this is circumstantialwhich has to do with this tremendous concern of people for insecurity, rather than a conviction that this ultra-conservative ideology is the one that represents the peoplehe declared.

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The former president expressed her concern that a sector of society sympathizes with these political projects despite the fact that they do not promise to solve the social injustice and poverty that prevails on the continent.

“We continue to be a tremendously unequal, unfair region, we continue to have brutal levels of poverty and a very significant lack of gender equality, despite all that there is a sector that looks to an authoritarian far-right scheme as the solution of the challenges that exist and that worries me”, he expressed.

The ex United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights referred to the possibility that the Libertarian candidate for the presidency of Argentina, javier mileiwin the elections this year or that the Republican Party achieve the presidency of Chili.

Bachelet gave a conference for the anniversary of the coup d’état in Chile, in 1973, in the auditorium Salvador Allende of the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), where the late Chilean president gave one of his most memorable speeches on December 2, 1972 during a visit to Mexico.

Allende was overthrown during the military coup led by Augusto Pinochet that began a dictatorship that lasted 17 years and that left just over 3,000 dead and missing persons, in addition to thousands of exiles to countries like Mexico, one of the countries that received the most persecuted Chileans.

Bachelet affirmed that, despite the changes that Latin American countries have given in recent decades, it is a “hostage of hope” who maintains his belief in democracy as “transforming agent” of people’s lives and a more just society.

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“I still believe that we can transform our reality through politics in a democratic framework and that is why I continue to look with interest and hope at what is happening in our region.“, he claimed.

On his visit to Guadalajarathe former president inaugurated on Monday the second edition of the International Habitat Summit in Latin America and the Caribbeanwhich will be from August 28 to 30, in addition to receiving an honorary doctorate from UdeG and recognition from the tequila drink industry.

Source: Elcomercio

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