Once elected, he did the opposite of what he had promised: he tripled the number of lawsuits (a thousand more) against the military, whose number of prisoners reached more than 200, filling [[Punta Peuco Jail]]. And he declared that the supporters [[Augusto Pinochet regime (Chile, 1973–90)|of the Junta Regime]] (with whose votes he had reached [[La Moneda]]) were "passive accomplices" of "human rights abuses" and "crimes against humanity". He hired dozens of leftist lawyers in the Ministry of the Interior to better prosecute the uniformed officers and to sponsor appeals before the Supreme Court to increase their sentences, when in the first instance and appeals they had been low or had been remitted and the leftist plaintiffs themselves had been satisfied. In this way he made possible millionaire compensations at the expense of the Treasury. Never had the human rights lawyers won as much as under Piñera. | Once elected, he did the opposite of what he had promised: he tripled the number of lawsuits (a thousand more) against the military, whose number of prisoners reached more than 200, filling [[Punta Peuco Jail]]. And he declared that the supporters [[Augusto Pinochet regime (Chile, 1973–90)|of the Junta Regime]] (with whose votes he had reached [[La Moneda]]) were "passive accomplices" of "human rights abuses" and "crimes against humanity". He hired dozens of leftist lawyers in the Ministry of the Interior to better prosecute the uniformed officers and to sponsor appeals before the Supreme Court to increase their sentences, when in the first instance and appeals they had been low or had been remitted and the leftist plaintiffs themselves had been satisfied. In this way he made possible millionaire compensations at the expense of the Treasury. Never had the human rights lawyers won as much as under Piñera. |