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SOURCE: TERRA.CL / With information EFE
BERLIN .- A group of demonstrators in favor of the Mapuche cause, protested against President Sebastián Piñera in Berlin, Germany, where the president is on a state visit.
In the event that was outside the Humboldt University where the president delivered a speech, a banner reading "Piñera holds the same policy that Pinochet terrorism."
The Head of State spoke at the Auditorium Maximun to academics and students of this university, one of the largest in Germany with more than 36 thousand students from over 100 countries and distributed in eleven faculties, interdisciplinary centers, institutes and graduate programs. Piñera
will meet with Chancellor Angela Merkel Germanic, to close the Saturday tour of several European capitals, which began last week in London. **********************************************
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Piñera had a bad time in Berlin
Chilean President Sebastián Piñera, was yesterday marred his lecture on the bicentennial Chile and the prospects for his country, Humboldt University of Berlin, for a critical demonstration by Mapuche, whose promoters were able to ask awkward questions.
He spoke in English to a packed auditorium and focused his speech on Chile's potential to overcome poverty in the coming years, besides presenting the goal of his government, with a growth of 6.0 percent annually - arriving in 2018 having eradicated extreme poverty in the country.
The presentation of the Andean country's president ended with a video with scenes of the rescue of 33 miners in the San Jose site, preceded by his explanation that was a decision by its government to confront the tasks of rescue, because the company that he had hired men "had no financial capacity to do so." When it came to public inquiries, Piñera uncomfortable due to hear two questions: first, a woman who introduced herself as belonging to the "Mapuche nation," but with "Chilean passport," asked the president about the promised abolition of the antiterrorism law.
" In Chile the antiterrorism law is applied against the Mapuche, but the Mapuche have not killed anyone and there are three Mapuche killed by police," said the woman in English, then noted that under the provisions of this law the defendants did not have fair trials and are accused by witnesses "faceless" of information hiding. " The Mapuche were in America long before the English ," replied the president Piñera in English. "They are very important and we are very proud to have a multicultural society. We know we have a debt to the Mapuche, "he added.
Regarding anti-terrorism law, according to Piñera "all countries need anti-terror laws, because terrorism and drug trafficking are too hard and need to combat these enemies of modernity without being naive." The president also noted that the challenged law "is not legacy of military rule, as adopted during the first democratic government and was applied by a former student of this university " referring to his predecessor as president, Michelle Bachelet .
Piñera took to the audience's "commitment to reform that law, and that civilians are always tried by civilian courts and clean processes." The president closed the issue, assuring that "it was submitted for approval the proposed reform of the law." The other question that had to answer embarrassing Piñera referred to the territories it acquired in 2004 on the island of Chiloé in southern Chile, the Mapuche nation that claims as its own based on the Treaty Tantauco, 1826, prohibiting their sale.
Piñera said then that his family is associated with a foundation that has a National Park Private. The property has approximately 150,000 hectares. "They are not contaminated by civilization, are all types of forests and animals," he said. "I bought that land, or my family bought the land," Chavez said, adding: "And I'll honor as a citizen and as president of the commitments in the treaty ."
Before answering uncomfortable questions for him, reeled Piñera economic plans of his country in the next decade, in which he said will create more than one million jobs. Piñera recalled that following the economic slowdown in 2009 around 1.9 percent, the forecasts for 2010 put the country on a growth between 4.5 and 5 per cent, expected to continue until the goal 6 percent.
For almost all the intervention could be heard the expression Piñera Group of Solidarity with the Mapuche, from the street shouting slogans against the political agenda of his government. Piñera began yesterday a three-day visit to Germany that will be welcomed by Chancellor Angela Merkel and the head of state, Christian Wulff, and which he will meet with German businessmen to promote investment in his country.
Piñera, who arrived from Paris, will close tomorrow in the German capital its one-week European tour that has also led to London and has met with British Prime Minister, David Cameron, and the president French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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