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Former undersecretary calls for security strategy to target criminal power

From Cooperativa · () Spanish

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Interview Named sources Context piece
  • Former Carabineros undersecretary Neftalí Carabantes urged Chile’s government to shift its security strategy toward confronting the power of criminal organizations.
  • He said the challenge involves preventing criminal groups from gaining territorial, economic, prison-system and political influence.
  • Carabantes cited threats against authorities, including an alleged plan to attack San Bernardo Mayor Christopher White.

Chile needs to move beyond a security policy centered on “toughness and restoring order” and confront the power that criminal organizations are building, former Carabineros undersecretary Neftalí Carabantes said.

Carabantes, a lawyer who served as undersecretary for Carabineros during the governments of Ricardo Lagos and Michelle Bachelet, called for what he described as a “strategy against criminal power 2.0.” He made the proposal in an interview with El Diario de Cooperativa, pointing to a series of violent incidents involving public officials.

We need to move toward combating criminal power.

· Neftalí CarabantesHe called for a new phase in the government’s security strategy.

Among the cases he cited were death threats and a recent plan that allegedly sought to attack the life of Christopher White, the mayor of San Bernardo. For Carabantes, such incidents show that the security challenge has moved beyond the number of crimes being committed.

“The main challenge facing Chile today is not only reducing crime, but preventing criminal organizations from acquiring territorial, economic, prison-system and political power,” he said. He argued that the government already has a security agenda focused on tougher enforcement and restoring order, but that the next phase must directly confront the influence of criminal groups.

The main challenge facing Chile today is not only reducing crime, but preventing criminal organizations from acquiring territorial, economic, prison-system and political power.

· Neftalí CarabantesHe described the broader security challenge facing Chile.
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