By Daniel Labbé Yáñez
only took a film from a cell showing a spinning paco mote a cart with small bones for the flame spread. Then came the leak of other images, officials inhaling chemicals, torturing.
The problem is also evidence that police violence nearly one naturalized in Chilean society, eventually an image worth a thousand words. More than a thousand words written in complaints, written in paintings and posters, vomited with rage against his tormentors colleagues. Again and again and again silenced by the voice of the families of the 74 people who have died since the end of dictatorship until 2009, in the hands of the police and investigations.
Hence, it is too naive to conclude that the audiovisual record of the abuse the key to social installed at the debate on police violence, and get well a change in mechanisms of repression have actually completed much more than becoming a prisoner in his pants out of fear. If so, the display on television of the brutal 2007 death of 26-year-old Rodrigo Cisternas, who was shot by police in the context of forestry workers' strike in the southeast, have served to question in depth , institutional and societal level, the actions of the police. Or for the 25 shots he received were translated into years in prison for police officers who killed him, under the crude argument that had jeopardized his integrity. Sorry
paradoxically, leaks of the videos we've seen, which display no longer absolutely necessary, of course-end just to strengthen the institution, but not necessarily in their response to the population. Only result in the establishment media the idea that these are isolated cases and that in fact terminate a dozen of "criminals" and "traitors", the police recovered his lost honor.
As noted in a 2004 report of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), since the resumption of democracy to that year the complaints of "unnecessary violence" already reached the 6 000 cases. So who might think that only now the police high command learned that their ranks had elements "tainted"? The truth is different: violence and abuse of police power against the people is brutal, discriminatory, but above all, consistent.
know not only the families of Johny Cariqueo, Alex Lemún, Claudia Lopez, Daniel Menco and Matthias Catrileo-all dead at the hands of the police, but also the boy Buenos Aires whose legs were crushed by a police van for a couple of weeks in Valparaiso. He was also aware Senator Alejandro Navarro when he was beaten on the head by a member of Special Forces, and the photographer Víctor Salas, who was an eye emptied a stick when registering a march near Congress. He says the terror in the eyes of children and elderly Mapuche midnight struck by soldiers in the Araucanía, the Queipul Patrick lived, small abducted by police in the same area in 2008. I have seen women groped in police stations after each protest May 21 in the port. Mourns the abuse of power Huenante Joseph's family, who at age 16 became the first detainee disappeared in democracy, after missing his mark on September 3, 2005 when he was arrested by police Puerto Montt.
Country "terrorist"
power-hungry subjects are everywhere. The issue goes to the legitimacy that even ended the dictatorship, have kept those entering police to use their power abusively against the population. Secure legitimacy from the state but also involves the complicity of the media, reaching the civil society itself.
On the one hand, we have the legitimacy that ultimately reflects the fact that the military we are led to a civil court at the time of trial for a crime, but to a military character. In this context, the question arises: What fear could, for example, a policeman in the Araucanía to shoot a Mapuche, whether out Walter Ramirez, who killed Matthew in the back Catrileo-only received two years in sentencing and punishment referred to zone assignment be transferred to Aysén? ...
Moreover, the legitimacy of policing is the criminalization that has built its victims by the successive governments of General Augusto Pinochet. And if something is done right the coalition, was ordered in efficiency to criminalize social protest, political demands and forms of struggle of a portion of the population neo-liberal critique of Chilean democracy. Criminalization (of course, continued today by the Right) established discursively through the media, and legally, in some cases leading to the implementation of the Patriot Act, against any action or statement that questions the established order . Thus they have become part of this large group from the Mapuche themselves, following with students mobilized, residents of squatter houses, forestry workers, salmon and copper, public officials who are advocating for better wages, informal trade, the housing debtors and fisherfolk, to media community communication.
However, parallel to the legitimization of abuse sustained in a criminalization of protest, run class discrimination against the marginalized of society. Yovani Reyes drowned with two bags of drugs in his throat, after being forced to consume for their trustees in a police station in Playa Ancha. He was arrested after being on alcohol in the street with some friends.
media from functional to be little or nothing can be expected. For the sample, a crude button. On Tuesday, July 6 this year, the newspaper La Estrella de Valparaíso brought a front-page story about two policemen killed. According to his own account, a woman reported having been arrested, raped by two soldiers and left abandoned in an empty lot. However, in a sort of editorial statement against the subject, and indeed about the relationship symptomatic of much of the media with the authority and repute called police, the newspaper headline: " accused of rape two paquito . "
An enemy in its path
seared a ferocious dictatorship, with death taught the consequences of defying authority, one might say that Chilean society still appears today demasiado temerosa para hacerse respetar frente al abuso policial; o que, simplemente lo ha naturalizado sin generarse mayores cuestionamientos. Sin embargo, la dictadura también neutralizó la conciencia de clase y origen de la población chilena, y pavimentó el camino para que la naciente democracia contara con su apoyo a la hora de criminalizar cualquier acto que la hiciera tambalear. Las demandas del pueblo mapuche nos consiguen contar con la aprobación de una población que simplemente los discrimina y desconoce su vínculo de origen con ellos. No es raro escuchar justificar el uso de la violencia de carabineros para poner fin a los “desordenes” producidos en una manifestación. En las llamadas “detenciones ciudadanas” more people taking advantage of hitting the subject and limited to those trying to stop this abuse. No wonder, there were too many people turned to Facebook and circulated in chain e-wishes that I wish had been more than 81 prisoners died in jail of San Miguel, in which a boy was arrested for selling pirated CDs , so consumed by Chileans as the police programs on TV. Not for nothing, Piñera and other collaborators of the dictatorship, were chosen to govern Chile.
In 2003, former police ends Myriam Solis Julio Pino handed over to the Immigration Court of England a document entitled "Chile, a country on false democracy. "There detailing, among other acts of repression, many cases of abuse and torture of prisoners who were present. The" choking "with bags over their head or submerging of it in water, the" beatings "group of soldiers against detainees; the "phone" or simultaneous blows to both ears of the victim with open palms, the "psychological torture, intimidation and threats, the" Russian roulette ", which consists of percussion at the nape of prisoner police firearm without ammunition, the "crucifixion", where the detainee is being held hours hanging from their arms tied to the bars of the cell without touching the ground, and the "electric torture," or current implementation of fingers, nipples, genitals or tongue, would be the "most common methods used by police forces in Chile" post-dictatorship, according to former soldiers.
A brutal and serious description of the methods of suppression of a society that calls itself democratic. As much as the most powerful and paradoxical conclusion of the two former police: "The usual and impunity of these practices throughout the country, makes any citizen in a potential victim."
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