Criminal fraud charges and Boric

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Evolving stories on Boric involvement in an attempt to buy former Allende residence for a “Marxist Museum” apparently being charged as fraud against the government.

Translation of a portion
The controversy over the frustrated sale of Salvador Allende’s house to the State for $933 million pesos (USD 926,000) to convert it into a museum finally implicated President Gabriel Boric, who must testify after a criminal complaint for tax fraud was filed in court against the president and all those responsible for the failed acquisition.

The matter has been described as an “own goal” by the Government and has already cost the Minister of National Assets, Marcela Sandoval, her job. The Chilean Republican Party announced an investigative commission on the matter and they are working on a request to the Constitutional Court to pronounce on the legality of the purchase contract signed before a notary with the State by a lawyer representing the Minister of Defense, Maya Fernández, and Senator Isabel Allende (PS), granddaughter and daughter, respectively, of the late former Socialist leader.

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The accusation is based on Constitution articles that expressly prohibit private transactions with the government by serving government officials, for hopefully obvious reasons.

They tried to whitewash the affair by attempting to purchase a house once owned by President Patricio Aylwin, for the same reason, ie to preserve his “legacy”.

A suggestion was made that rather than selling the property, they could donate it to the nation. But these members of the commie nomenklatura, seemed strangely reluctant to forgo the opportunity to get money out of the state.

Even if it were legal, and given the county’s precarious financial condition, how can spending taxpayers money to buy up property for ideological reasons be justified?

Given the speed of Chilean justice, Boric and Co will be out of office by the time any investigation concludes, and the whole affair will be conveniently forgotten, especially since the Allende family is still one of Chile’s sacred cows.

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Theoretically, Boric could be accused of buying a property from a subordinate using state money. I suppose that would be an incompatible negotiation, not a fraud.
In any case, it’s unlikely that anything will come of it in that regard. Boric and his government’s clumsiness was incredible because they tried to make a big deal for the Allende family, without realizing that it was blatantly illegal.

The deal would have been very good for the Allende family because that house has heritage value, so it’s practically impossible to sell it. No one would buy it, especially at that price, knowing that no modifications can be made without permission from the National Monuments Council

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For the Aylwin family, it was an excellent deal because they were able to get rid of the properties while receiving a good amount of money, from us the taxpayers, of course.

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Thank you for that clarification and the additional details. I had regrettably relied on the phrase in the media reports, “responsables de un posible delito de fraude al fisco…”

Always pleased to see your greater insights into these events.

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Something else that’s just come to light:

A rough translation:

The Allende family’s idea was that, after the purchase by the Treasury for $993 million,(with public money) the property would be ceded back to the Salvador Allende Foundation, where Senator Isabel Allende was an honorary member, along with her daughter Marcia Tambutti Allende, partner of the lawyer Felipe Vio.

They wanted to have their cake, and eat it too.

Compare and contrast the Allendes’ behaviour with that of Douglas Tompkins and the Parque Pumalín, where he spent a fortune of his own money acquiring a vast area that was later deeded to the nation. At the time he faced hostility as even the supposedly better-educated members of Congress refused to credit his altruistic aims. Their mentality was, and still is similar to that of the Allendes.

Edit: And in another twist to this tale, the Allende families “have-your-cake-and eat-it-too” proposal proved too much, even for Boric, prompting the sacking of Maya Fernández, defence minister and granddaughter of Salvador Allende.

High-ranking Socialist Party sources say that although Boric initially supported Fernández, the turning point came when it became known that the Allendes intended the house to become a kind of loan to the Allende Foundation once it was sold to the State. In other words, they would continue to receive funds from the property.

In Chile, Socialista = Sociolisto

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Despite my original prediction, after an acusación constitucional by the Opposition, the verdict of the Constitutional Tribunal removed Isabel Allende from the Senate, ending more than 30 years of “public service”.

She declared that she acted in “good faith”, (whatever that is supposed to mean), and had “never received a single Peso from the project” (because it was quashed before the sale was finalized).

Political fallout within the governing coalition is ongoing, but Boric seems to have escaped censure.

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A little late in responding to this but Tompkins was a crook, a criminal, a very dirty player in nearly everything he did in Chile. His acquisitions for that park were an example of how hiring an army powerful strong-arming attorneys can strip residents of their land here and keep the details of his filthy deeds from being locally published. He and his mafia had interfered at every turn with attempts to build essential sections of the Carretera Austral. Even the events that providentially led to his death exposed a serious of broken laws which were briefly outlined on Wikipedia, until his henchmen took control and locked out the page without those revelations (even the Chilean Navy report of investigation on those violations is nearly impossible to obtain). Tompkins liked to claim that he “lived in Chile” but in fact he maintained tourist status for all the years he was screwing people here, in his way of avoiding paying taxes in Chile. A truly ugly 'murican, and no friend of ours.

He dicho.

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Well that’s me told, but have to come back on this one.

Regarding the Tourist Visa thing, Tompkins met a lot of resistance to his plans and so probably wanted to avoid the increased pressure that, as a Resident, the government could bring to bear (as some forumites are recently discovering) Hardly a crime, though, is it?.

For those unfamiliar with the story, to see where Tompkins was coming from, consider the following:

Deep ecology is an environmental philosophy that promotes the inherent worth of all living beings regardless of their instrumental utility to human needs, and argues that modern human societies should be restructured in accordance with such ideas.

Tompkins was a Deep Ecologist. Its a concept completely at odds with the biblical notion so common here, that everything on earth was furnished exclusively for man’s benefit. Part of the obstruction he encountered was because Chileans thought that his goal more of the same exploitation; either chopping down and selling all the trees or setting up his own sovereign state. The idea of conservation for its own sake was, and still is completely alien here, despite all the green talk bandied about these days.

For that reason he opposed extending the carreterra panamericana which was built by Pinochet for military reasons. Improving human accessibility to an area inevitably affects the environment, usually for the worse. Tompkins also opposed the huge pylons that the HydroAysen project would have run through the area to provide more power for Santiago, for the same reason.

Having seen how Chileans have systematically fucked up the rest of their country, he determined to conserve one of the few bits left mostly untouched thanks to its remoteness and the awful climate. And I dont recall any of the pitifully few inhabitants of that inhospitable area complaining that they were cheated out of their land. Tompkins paid fair and square afaik.

Was there an ulterior motive for buying up all that land and donating it to the nation, or maybe, just for once, someone in this country did what they saw as the right thing to do?

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I don’t mean to be flaming here, so I apologize for the appearance of rudeness. We have very different perspectives on the crimes of Tompkins. Being here in the patagonia for all these years and visiting the Tompkins places and dealing with those affected inevitably leads to perspectives that afuerinos might not share.

Over 20 percent of continental Chile is already locked up in nature preserves and parks, largely the work of foreigners attempting to deprive Chilean citizens of the use of their own lands.

The development of the Carretera Austral was not a “military highway” as Tompkins and his minions had represented, but rather a means to develop the region. That development is now rather obvious and successful which of course environ-cretins like Tompkins fought tooth and nail to prevent, to keep the economy of Aysén from growing. The CMT was of course involved just as it has been on road-building elsewhere in the country. I have funny stories about the CMT, perhaps for another time.

While Tompkins poured money into obstructing the roads, the Carretera Austral, he kept a fleet of private airplanes, so at least he could get around. Ugly American, indeed.

Ironically, Tompkins’ pouring his millions into preventing electrification of Aysén, which would have allowed cheap clean power for the lugareños, means that they are accelerating their cutting down of their woodlands, since they have no other energy source in the region. Just a few years ago I was offered a job managing the firewood harvesting at an estancia in Coyhaique Alto, which would have meant worsening the matter.

And Tompkins’ moneybags Luddite interference means that Coyhaique has become the most-contaminated city in Chile.

Thanks, Doug.

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Interesting points.
Rather than replying here to some aspects of that last, I will do a new post on the colonization of the Aysén region, which is a prime example of Chile’s lazy Centralist thinking, and which started the ruin of that region - over 100 years ago.

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According to Ex-Ante, even after the sale was blocked, the government continued to transfer money to the Salvador Allende Foundation.

En febrero, semanas después de que el Gobierno paralizara la compra de la casa del ex presidente Allende, el Servicio Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural aprobó el traspaso de $98,1 millones a la Fundación Salvador Allende. Del total de recursos, un 89,79% estará destinado a gastos en personal.

Along with a disillusion with the present government, sections of the media are increasingly questioning the current benefactors of the Allende “legacy”, a sanctification painstakingly built up over the years by the left-wing, that bears little relation with the tawdry reality.

Another, related story, which illustrates the abusive personality of one of Boric’s minions. I said 3 years ago that Chile had fallen into bad hands, and nothing has happened in the meantime to change my opinion.

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The shameless criminal and corrupt nature of the Boric government is increasingly on display.

Though there is a silver lining here of sorts - it was mentioned in an earlier post but worth repeating.

No hay mal que por bien no venga.

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Chile’s Constitutional Court (CC) voted Thursday 8-2 in favor of removing Isabel Allende -daughter of former President Salvador Allende- in connection with her involvement in the attempt to have President Gabriel Boric Font’s Government purchase the former head of State’s house to turn it into a museum in honor of the Socialist leader ousted by Augusto Pinochet Ugarte’s military coup d’état in 1973.

The fudgy deal also cost Maya Fernández her post as Defense Minister. Fernández is Isabel Allende’s niece and Salvador’s grandaughter.

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The house in question, that Boric wanted to convert into another shrine to has a history that doesn’t reflect well on Allende.

Salvador Allende was a notorious womanizer. His last mistress was his private secretary, La Payita, who turned out to be a KGB agent.

His amorous liaisons often took place in his other homes,while the house in Guardia Vieja was where he guardaba la vieja, as they said at the time. It’s where his wife Hortensia Bussi, and their children lived, conveniently isolated from Allende’s “irregular” lifestyle.

A mujeriego compulsivo, as well as everything else. Here’s an unedifying, but quite entertaining video covering Allende’s private life:

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Hence the many statues and other monuments around the country, celebrating the very pinnacle of el socialismo a lo chileno.

In that respect, the philandering communist, Neruda, is only partially recognized for exercising the same core values of the country, where in a report from Oz he was correctly characterized as " a hedonistic drunk and a spoiled womaniser…"

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El Vate:

de mis hábiles labios canto

de las maravillas del mundo
del amor
del monstruo querido
de la cárcel roja donde nunca hace falta el castigo

muy refinada la pomada que vendo
mientras mis manos trepadoras
acarician las nalgas
de la nana de turno

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It has been amusing to see how many of the feministas here in Chile today are finally publicly denouncing not just Neruda’s famous sexual abuse of anything capable of wearing a skirt, but his conspicuous promotion of the same behavior in his works . To that is added Neruda’s having completely abandoned his only legitimate child, giving rise to his being canonized by Chile’s leftist parties.

Neruda’s legacy as a “diplomat” is one of the most disgraceful stories in the history of this country, whether it was that famous rape of a Tamil worker-woman while he was posted at the embassy in Sri Lanka, or his selection of a shipload of Spanish communists and using Chilean public funds to transport them to Chile, where some of them would later participate in Allende’s disastrous government. People like Allende’s propagandist, the anarchist Víctor Pey.

Of course the Chilean Left wanted to rename the Pudahuel airport after Neruda, in their habitual manner of honoring criminals.

Here in Magallanes we remember Neruda for his additional artistry as a thief, defacing what at the time was not yet a national monument, by stealing the bowsprit figure from the wreck of the Lonsdale, and taking it in his characteristically arrogant manner to decorate one of his private residences.

Neruda: Mujeriego, maltratador de niños y mujeres, ladrón y comunista. La cúspide del artista chileno.