President Boric has difficult words with community leaders in Punta Arenas

and President Gabriel Borich had harsh words with the leader of the neighborhood council of Silva Henriques residents in Punta Arenaswho indicated to him that foreigners had the privilege of receiving state aid, especially in housing.

According to reports once Upon a time, Before leading the handover of the land for the construction of the Magallanes Regional Library and Archives, which will restore the former local prison, the PresidentHe approached a group of residents protesting in front of the building.

There, he listened for several minutes to complaints from neighborhood committee leaders about polluted waters in the area.have been allocated to nearby shops where a certain proportion of foreigners live.

“I’m going to go see what’s going on,” the president told the women.

“A lot of times you don’t know the problems your neighbors in Punta Arenas are facing,” A lady pointed this out to him, to which Borrick replied: “They told me it was a very good thing. ‘That’s what the authorities are for, listen to you.’”

Exchanges with the neighboring country became strained when complaints were raised about foreigners allegedly getting housing for free before Chileans.

“If we Chileans go to their country, will they give us the guarantees they have? “They have a home, they have health, they have everything for free.” One resident said.

At the neighbor’s insistence, Boric interrupted his neighbor: “I won’t accept this, I just won’t accept it, it’s not true. No one gets anything for nothing. This idea that foreigners get houses because they are foreigners is not true.” “Show me a case,” the head of state demanded.

“Tell me a case. Don’t tell me ‘I got somebody,’ ma’am, tell me a case, first and last name, and I’ll verify that case, but don’t throw it up in the air.”

“It has nothing to do with that, the problem you have is real and as a nation we have to give it a context,” Borick said, continuing the conversation and later reaching a consensus on how to meet the requests made by the committee and neighborhood leaders.