Lerner Febres Strikes Back

The death of comrade "William" triggered a new offensive against the Final Report of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación, which has just marked its ninth anniversary. In the end, the criticisms were mistaken, but the barrage was accompanied by successive headlines in the newspaper El Comercio and reached its peak on the Sunday front page, where former commissioners are attributed with acknowledging "errors." Salomón Lerner Febres, former president of the CVR and rector emeritus of the Universidad Católica, defends the document as "a solid starting point for reflection. With what brazenness can they come and say that we spoke ex cathedra and that we stated a truth that cannot be moved!"