UDI to formally request that Bachelet address "frentistas" case on visit to Cuba

SANTIAGO. -  Although the government emphatically stated yesterday that President Michelle Bachelet would not discuss with her Cuban counterpart, Raúl Castro, the case involving the “frentistas” that murdered former Senator Jaime Guzmán and may have been harbored on the island after fleeing the High Security Prison in 1996, the opposing party has assured today that it will “formally” request that the President address the matter during her upcoming visit to Havana.

“I think it is essential, if we are going to really talk about a country in the sense of foreign affairs with this country, the case having to do with the frentistas that escaped from Chile and, as  indicated by statements made by the former Minister of Interior (Carlos Figueroa) fled to Cuba,  let it be it a part of the politics, discussion, debate and conversation between the governments of Chile and Cuba”, the president of the UDI, Juan Antonio Coloma, declared.

“I think it would be absurd not to be able to speak about a matter of this nature”, he continued, stressing that the President could “at least” speak to her Cuban counterpart about an issue “that has obviously affected relations between the two countries” and implies “that the orders of the Chilean courts were not complied with”.