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“I Would Never Occupy that Word”: Quiroz Refutes the Government’s Social Media Publication Accusing the State of “Break”

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The Minister of Finance, Jorge Quiroz, came out this afternoon to the publication made this day in social networks of the government, in which it is ensured that it was not possible to contain the rise of the benzines through the Mechanism of stabilization of fuel prices (Mepco), because the state is “in bankruptcy”. “Never would it occupy as a word that the state is broken. What happens is that the state is in a deteriorating fiscal situation,”…

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Official government accounts released publications that attributed the fuel rise to a "broken state", in line with a leaked minute. Following the words of the Finance Minister, Jorge Quiroz, who dismissed this concept and spoke of a deteriorating fiscal situation, the contents were removed from X and Instagram. The publication was questioned by opposition figures like Gonzalo Winter and Giorgio Jackson. The post After Quiroz's removal from the f…

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After the vote in the Chamber of Deputies that sent the bill containing the price of paraffin to the Senate in the face of the fuel increase, the Minister of Finance, Jorge Quiroz, detailed the commitments made to the parliamentarians and defended the measures adopted by the Executive. Likewise, he rejected the qualification of “the broken state”, promoted by the Government itself through its social networks. The initiative, which was approved i…

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The Minister of Finance, Jorge Quiroz, came out this afternoon to the publication made this day in social networks of the government, in which it is ensured that it was not possible to contain the rise of the benzines through the Mechanism of stabilization of fuel prices (Mepco), because the state is “in bankruptcy”. “Never would it occupy as a word that the state is broken. What happens is that the state is in a deteriorating fiscal situation,”…

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The government has been using social media to spread its message, but one of its graphics ended up generating criticism and objections, even from the Minister of Finance, Jorge Quiroz. The post, which has since been removed from the official Chilean government accounts, stated: “Because they left us without money. A bankrupt state.” Economist Andrea Repetto warns that an exaggerated narrative about supposed “excessive spending” by the state has …

"I would never use that word," the finance minister said about the publication, arguing that, in his opinion, "the state is in a deteriorating fiscal situation."

It was Monday night when the Executive announced an adjustment of the Mepco, causing a historic rise of the benzines.

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CNN Chile broke the news in on Tuesday, March 24, 2026.
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