A series of Pifias achieved the Regional Ministerial Secretary of Energy of the Bío Bío Region, the radical lawyer Jorge Cáceres Méndez, when yesterday morning he said that “Chile is a cup of milk”, in an event organized by the Regional Institute of Business Administration (Irade, which brings together the largest companies in the forest area, fishing and others), in Concepción.
The statements of the authority, who is a politician with a long career, since it was Seremi de Justicia between 2014 and 2018, as well as legal director of the Municipality of San Pedro de la Paz and president of the Penquista Bar Association, occurred in the middle of the event “Economic Agenda 2025”, in which one of the issues that was inescapable was the recent attack occurred in the area of Alto Bío Bío Rucalhue, which caused damage for more than four million dollars, after 52 trucks and machines were incendiary, last Sunday.
Given this, Cáceres participated in a panel in the middle of which he said he agreed that it was something “serious, no doubt”, to then add a phrase that generated grinders towards him: “If you analyze it from the national and international point of view, The country is a cup of milk”, He said, generating a series of critical acids by those present, that the softest thing they said later was that the authority – which assumed as such in December of last year – was completely disconnected from reality, still mentioning that his words even contradict the official discourse of the government, which has assumed that there is a very complex criminal problem, especially in relation to organized crime.
According to Cáceres “that of saying that I am afraid … I walk at 2 or 3 in the morning without any problem. It is a cup of milk. There is crime … Remember that President Piñera himself, who surely many from here voted, said he was going to eliminate crime and not only not eliminated it, but increased. Then, from that thing, you have to take charge too, Poh.”
-The statement was acidly criticized in X and other social networks, with comments such as “less street than Venice and more isolated than Inuit”, “And this in which country lives”?, “Lives in Narnia” and other similar, among the publicable ones.
However, what caused the greatest discomfort at the government level was the fact that Cáceres was not even invited to the panel. Indeed, the General Manager of Essbio, Cristian Vergara; the General Manager of Clarifa, Nelson Donoso; The president of the Corma Bío Bío and Ñuble, Alejandro Casagrande, the regional president of the Chilean Chamber of Construction, Jorge Coloma, and the president of the Association of Fisheries Industrialists (ASIIPES), Macarena Cepeda, a conversation that was led by CNN journalist Nicolás Paut.
While Cepeda exposed, he was suddenly interrupted by someone who began to refute her from the public, which is possible to appreciate towards the 2:13d -time video of the event. They were Cáceres, whom Paut invited himself to join the conversation on stage.
In fact, the journalist left his chair and gave it to the Seremi, whose first words there were to remember the social outbreak, asserting that “nothing is said that in 2019 there was a social outbreak with the right -wing government, asserting after“ the people were discontent and a social outbreak came. Of course, they will keep the figures or with the simple answers, that is, ah, they were the communists, the Marxists, Leninists, and it turns out that the communist party at that time did not represent more than 2%. In fact we could say that from there he grew, ”he said, adding that“ it was really a burst of the people. ”After that he criticized the proposals of the business sectors, in order to lower taxes, which said that“ he feels like an empty speech ”, and then move on to the scope of security and formulate his appreciation of a cup of milk called Chile.
