It is a problem centered on the length of time authorized to visit a sacred altar. After the Ministry of Justice offered on Friday the machi Celestino Córdova, sentenced to 18 years in prison for the fire that resulted in the death of the Luchsinger Mackay couple, to visit their hostage for 15 hours in exchange for ending the hunger strike that departed on May 4, this Monday He made a counterproposal to the government and asked that they give him days (without specifying how many) to go to the place, located in the Padre Las Casas sector. Originally, Córdova’s request that he be allowed to serve his sentence at his residence for the duration of the pandemic.
If no agreement is reached, Córdova has indicated that he will adopt a dry hunger strike. And as a final deadline, he put 0.00 this Tuesday.
This counterproposal was made after meeting with their representatives for several hours at the Intercultural Hospital of Nueva Imperial. Outside the enclosure, about 100 community members gathered who previously held a march through the city.
At the end of the meeting, Córdova’s spokeswoman, Giovanna Tafilo, said that “we sent a counterproposal to the government. We went down a lot, we went down from months to days. We are waiting for the response from the government that is supposed (that) should arrive at any moment ”.
In this sense, the machi’s other spokeswoman, Cristina Romo, pointed out that they are asking “Greater breadth and flexibility” by the Executive.
In relation to how many days they asked, Tafilo pointed out that “I’m not going to tell you right now, because he’s talkingWhen we finish talking there we will be able to talk, but they are talking and we are waiting for the answer ”.
Romo explained that this Tuesday marks the 106th day of Córdova’s hunger strike. “We are at a critical point, at a decisive moment where this situation has to be resolved ”, he indicated.
He argued that Córdova “has made the gesture of continuing to wait for a definitive statement from the government, but we also want to point out that this situation cannot continue to be prolonged, that is why we are living the final final hours where the machi at the end of this day is leaving. to decide definitively whether or not to start a dry strike and it will depend on the gesture of the government ”. In addition, Romo assured that “We have been a people who have used dialogue as a permanent practice (…); in this case we want to invite the government again to continue talking just as the government has expressed in the different interactions, because without a doubt this situation can unblock it from this dialogue and understanding ”.
During the afternoon, Deputy PC Karol Cariola indicated that she would be the guarantor in the event that an agreement was reached.
On Friday, the Ministry of Justice indicated that “the possibility was directly transmitted (to Córdova) that, Once he had deposed his hunger strike and recovered his health, he could go to renew his rehue, just as he could do in June 2018 ”. Likewise, the government undertook to improve prison regulations for members of indigenous ethnic groups who are serving sentences.
Regarding Córdova’s counterproposal, the government was studying the new requirement.
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