Forced Confession?

by cops in Chile? Nah...

My favorite paragraph:

“We are going to act with great force so that the killer is punished harshly,” said Interior Minister Belasario Velasco Thursday afternoon. “It should be this way because the murder was done in the dark, in a cowardly way, when no one was at risk.”

And the confession was obtained in plain daylight, in the presence of a lawyer, although we're still not sure if it was "by reason or by force" (the motto of Chile) - does it even matter? His parents say he was at home the whole time. But as I like to say, "Alibi Shmalibi," let the kid be crucified.

According to the chief of police interviewed on TV Wednesday, "to kill a police officer is to kill Chile."

Well, I certainly think cops' conditions suck and they should be treated better, paid more, taught more effective, less violent ways of controlling crowds. Nobody does that, for them, they just turn crime into a petty political issue when Chile's social ills are so. much. fucking. deeper. than Bachelet.

I personally get a kick out of MEGA Noticias because it's so over-the-top and sensationalistic, and every night you get a lot of live footage of cops vs. bad-guy gunfights in Chile's slums and people getting their phones ripped out of their hands downtown. I, personally, can't get enough of that shit. Chileans neither but a Chilean friend recently explained that even intelligent, educated Chileans don't filter the news, and the news in Chile is notoriously over-the-top, Chileans are some seriously frightened folk when we're talking about crime, it's a pretty well known problem.

I like what she said about filtering though. For me it's a lot easier to filter the news and laugh at it because it's not my world, I'm a foreigner. The same thing happens when I go back the United States after being abroad, CNN never looks as ridiculous as on the airport monitor.