Shield of the Americas: Chancellor Tries to Clear Doubts and Senators Face Positions in Special Session of the Upper House
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Minister Pérez Mackenna attended the hearing with the head of Defense. From the opposition they accused that there were still concerns and that the questions that were not answered by the government will be sent in a trade.
Between counterpoints and background requests, legislators discuss whether coordination with the U.S. touches sovereign limits and what it implies for annexes and protocols.
The congressman expressed important doubts about the relevance of signing the Shield of the Americas with the argument of security and the fight against organized crime: he recalled that Chile already subscribes on this matter to the Palermo Convention, which, in fact, the US applies “fully.” The entry Senator Huenchumilla asked the government to explain its signature of the Shield of the Americas: “We need a State-sensitive response” was first …
The congressman expressed important doubts about the relevance of signing the Shield of the Americas with the argument of security and the fight against organized crime: he recalled that Chile already subscribes on this matter to the Palermo Convention, which in fact, the US applies “fully.” The entry Senator Huenchumilla asked the government to explain its signature of the Shield of the Americas: “We need a response with a sense of state” was f…
In a special session the senators raised their points of view and doubts about the measure. Meanwhile, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense defended the measure and affirmed that it is part of the “voluntary coordination between governments of the continent” with the declared objective of “combat transnational organized crime”.
The Senate will discuss today in a special session the implications for Chile of adhering to the Shield of the Americas, decided by the Government of José Antonio Kast without legislative approval. It was on September 22 that the Head of State announced in New York City the incorporation into the mechanism, created and [...] The Senate entry analyzes implications of the Shield of the Americas in special session was first published in The Journal…
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