Official deputies present project to prohibit streets, squares and public monuments bearing the name of Pinochet - La Tercera

The deputies Tomás Hirsch and Ana María Gazmuri (AH) presented a bill that prohibits erecting monuments, naming squares,...

On Tuesday, the official deputies Tomás Hirsch and Ana María Gazmuri (AH) presented a bill to prohibit the use of Augusto Pinochet’s name throughout the national territory. The initiative that contains a single article states: “The use of the full name or part of it of the Dictator Augusto Pinochet Ugarte to name avenues, streets, passages, squares, squares or any kind of public equipment, as well as to name public buildings and public monuments…

Tomás Hirsch, author of the initiative, said that “we are talking about someone who was a dictator, who systematically violated human rights, and that is confirmed in official documents. Therefore, to name him in some public space, is evidently to revictimize those who suffered the various human rights violations: thousands of disappeared detainees, executed politicians, exiled, tortured, exonerated politicians.” Valparaíso. 3/2025.

The deputies Tomás Hirsch and Ana María Gazmuri (AH) presented a bill that prohibits erecting monuments, naming squares, streets or any public space under the name of Augusto Pinochet, dictator and human rights rapist for 17 years in our country, condition accredited by the Rettig and Valech reports. The parliamentary motion consists of [...] The post Humanist Deputies present project to prohibit squares, streets and monuments from bearing the n…

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The deputies Tomás Hirsch and Ana María Gazmuri, of the Humanist Action bench (AH), have entered a bill that seeks to prohibit the denomination of streets, squares, avenues or any other public space under the name of the dictator Augusto Pinochet. The initiative would also prevent erecting monuments in his honor. The legislative proposal consists of a unique article that states: “Prohibit throughout the national territory the use of the full or …