Delpiano appointed Chile's new defense minister

On the afternoon of 25 November of last year, at 18:40, an e-mail came to a senior official of the Legal Division of the Ministry Secretariat General of the Presidency (Segpres).This one came from the Ministry of National Property and contained the three draft decrees authorizing the purchase of housing by former presidents Salvador Allende and Patricio Aylwin.That afternoon, the documents were received by José Miguel Ledesma, who, as the head o…

Delpiano appointed Chile's new defense minister

Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font appointed Adriana Delpiano to replace the resigning Maya Fernández, who left her position after being involved in the scandal regarding the Government's failed attempt to purchase the house of her grandfather, former President Salvador Allende.

We talked about Que Hay De Nuevo with Rodrigo Arellano, vice-dean of the Faculty of Government of the University of Development (UDD), about the anniversary of the three years of the government of President Gabriel Boric, marked, in his anteala, by the resignations of the Minister of Defense, Maya Fernández, and the head of advisers of La Moneda, Miguel Crispi. Likewise, the academic analyzed the electoral panorama in view of this year’s electio…

In the midst of the controversy generated by the failed purchase of the house of Guardia Vieja, belonging to the former president Salvador Allende, the Minister of Defense of Chile, Maya Fernández, presented his resignation on Monday. According to La Tercera newspaper, Fernández’s resignation was presented to President Gabriel Boric, who accepted the resignation through an official communiqué. Fernández’s resignation comes in a delicate context,…

This Tuesday the lot of the members of the deputies who will be part of the review commission of the constitutional accusation presented by the Republican Party against the now former defense minister, Maya Fernández.The elected parliamentarians were Alexis Sepúlveda (Radical Party), Emilia Schneider (FA), Leonardo Soto (PS), Jaime Naranjo (PS) and Jorge Durán (RN).The former defense holder presented his resignation this Monday, amid the questio…

Maya Fernández, granddaughter of former socialist president Salvador Allende, resigned on Monday as Minister of Defense of Chile in the midst of a scandal over the failed purchase by the State of a house he inherited from his grandfather. President Gabriel Boric’s government announced last December the purchase of a house of Allende to turn it into a museum that would recall the figure of the ex-mandator overthrown by Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990…