At a breakfast at the Almasur hotel, in the commune of Providencia, along with more than 200 booksellers and bookstores, Penguin Random House announced today the launch of the book “Monsalve, the fall of the Under Secretary of the Interior. “
The investigation, written by the journalist of The second Pablo Basadre, includes the investigation that began in the North Central Prosecutor’s Office on October 14, 2024, when a government official denounced the socialist doctor for alleged sexual crimes.
With unpublished passages of the research and life of those involved, Basadre reconstructs the story of what happened before the complaint in the Executive and after the facts were known. The information, which was known on October 17, generated a political and communicational crisis in a government that was defined as “feminist.” The 252 -page book plans to launch on June 1.
A case without predal
On Sunday, September 22, 2024, at the close of the celebrations of Patrias Fiestas, Manuel Monsalve went to dinner with a subordinate official. What happened later, in a hotel room, ended with the then Under Secretary of the interior outside his position and formalized for the crime of rape.
An unprecedented event in Chilean political history, which directly impacted the government of President Gabriel Boric and that with the advancement of investigations, evidenced serious shortcomings in the institutional management of the case. Harassment to the complainant, alleged abuse of power, use of public resources and participation of police personnel are part of a plot of multiple implications. And in the midst of the scandal, political costs and speculation, the essential – proteger to the complainant – seemed to be relegated.
-This is the most detailed and documented story of the crisis. A book that challenges, shakes and forces to look straight ahead.
About the author
Pablo Basadre has been a reporter in the newspapers The second, The time, First line, The nation, The Sunday Nation and magazines Plan B y Paula.
He collaborated in Ciper Chile And he was a general editor of Ex-beforeNational Subeditor of The third and general editor of The Clinic Online.
He was academic from Diego Portales University, a fellow at the Research Journalism Workshop issued by the journalist and researcher of the magazine The New YorkerJon Lee Anderson, and selected by the New Ibero -American Journalism Gabriel García Márquez, of Colombia. In addition, he was co -author of the books of Cardinal II, real cases, directed by Andrea Insunza and Javier Ortega.
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