Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.
About Ricardo Lagos
Ricardo Froilan Lagos Escobaris a Chilean lawyer, economist and social-democratic politician who served as president of Chile from 2000 to 2006. During the 1980s he was a well-known opponent of the Chilean military dictatorship and astounded contemporaries in 1988 by openly denouncing dictator Augusto Pinochet on live television.
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It’s important to see how we can advance in healing wounds.
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Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.
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We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty.
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This is not the Chile we want to build.
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Let’s not interfere with justice… Let’s let justice speak.
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My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.
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There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers.
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We need to be more careful, but more compassionate. We must strike, not deal with terrorists, but to broaden our understanding of the world outside our borders.
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Clearly it is better that, when someone is wanted by the international police, and this person travels, and a country knows about it, that country reports the fact.
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We fully support the strikes against terrorist targets, not against the country, not against the culture, not against a religion, but against an enemy of them all.
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We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.
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