Jose Antonio Kast again caused controversy with his sayings about the military dictatorship, this time in the program True Lies of Network.
“I am not a pinochetista, I don’t have a photo of Pinochet in my office, “said the presidential pre-candidate, but” I do appreciate what was done in the Military government, what my brother did as a minister focusing on public spending. “
For the leader of Republican Party he September 11, 1973 “What had to be done was done,” while he reminded the Government of Salvador Allende “declared illegitimate by the Chamber of Deputies“.
“Allende was overthrown by the peopleIt’s not that the military got up angry one day and said you’re leaving. No, it was the Chilean people who asked him for a military statement and I thank them for giving us freedom, otherwise today we would be worse than Cuba and Venezuela“he added.
Kast recognized the human rights violations.
About the human rights violations, Kast acknowledged its existence by saying that “there are people convicted and serving sentences, some of them unfairly to me. “
The former deputy explained that “justice has made a legal fiction. Laws that are passed after the crime apply. “
He also criticized that “the left” is not responsible for the “100 million Communist Party deaths“, and he joked that”there appears the friend Jadue saying he can’t take care of what communists do in other countries. “
Finally, Kast relativized Pinochet’s international accounts, asking that “if he had wanted to become a billionaire, does anyone think he would not have done it?“.
“Most of the sentences in Chile came to nothing,” Kast began, adding that “Is an act of this type going to erase everything that was done to become developed?”
Check out José Antonio Kast’s opinion on the dictatorship:
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