Keys to the ‘ProCulture Case’: an uncomfortable prosecutor, a controversial psychiatrist, and a ‘punch’ to a Boric conversation

For 14 years, from 2009 until November 2023, when it closed, the ProCultura Foundation, founded by psychiatrist Alberto Larraín -who according to testimonies boasted of his closeness with President Gabriel Boric- and the photographer and cutural manager Ilonka Csillag, enjoyed reputation in Chile. It was an NGO that had the mission “to put people in the center and their identity” and “to link them with their history, with their heritage, from th…

The ProCulture case and the statements of Alberto Larraín, its founder, detonated a crossover of reactions between...

According to publications that Alberto Larraín has made in his social networks, he met President Gabriel Boric in 2015. And from there he began to support him on topics related to mental health. But beyond the labor link that at that moment began to delineate, according to the background contained in the research folder of the ProCultura case -where the founder of the NGO appears as the main accused-, the psychiatrist would have used that link w…

Minister Aisén Etcheverry Escudero reaffirmed the government’s position on the ProCultura case, calling for “the full weight of the law to be imposed” on those responsible. Specifically, after the statement of NGO leader Alberto Larraín was made public, the spokeswoman said that “the position has always been one and the same. Here it is investigated, that all those responsible be investigated, and if Mr. Larraín is responsible, that the full wei…

As usual, in the interview of ‘What was missing’, we addressed the main issues that have marked the national and international agenda. For this edition, we talked with Andrés Cuble, general secretary of the Broad Front, about the new background of the Procultura case, since from the ruling party they pointed out that the investigation is seeking to “disparage” President Boric, accusing a kind of “political spying” by the Prosecutor’s Office. #Lo…

In conversation with "Politically Direct", by Puranoticia.cl, the former president of the CPC condemned that many people associated with the government "are linked to acts of corruption, of lack of truth, of lying, even of stealing from the poorest people."