Santiago, Sep 1 (EFE).- A former police captain was found guilty Thursday of firing a tear-gas canister at Sen. Fabiola Campillai during a street protest in 2019. Patricio Maturana, who was dismissed from the Carabineros – Chile’s militarized national police – following the incident, used the tear-gas grenade not “to disperse or dissuade the crowd, …
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A Chilean court on Thursday convicted a former special forces police captain of assault after a woman was left blinded by a tear .
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A Chilean court on Thursday convicted a former special forces police captain of assault after a woman was left blinded by a tear .
In Chile, a recent move from the new government on reparation for victims of human rights violations committed during the 2019 uprising could trigger and expresses a radical shift of policy in dealing with human rights violations, and an opportunity to revisit the unfulfilled demands of survivors of the dictatorship, argues the author.