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How did apologies become the cryptocurrency with which the powerful pay for their mistakes?
It's not that it was expensive before, but now it's free: they make the pantomime of apologies and everything is forgotten.
In April 2020, Sebastián Piñera, then president of Chile, apologized after posing for a smiling photo in Plaza Baquedano in Santiago, the main scene of the demonstrations against his government that began in October 2019 and were savagely repressed.
In January 2018, the Pope apologized to the victims of sexual abuse in Chile because, during his visit to that country, he defended Bishop Juan Barros, accused of covering up for abusive priests.
In June 2021, the Argentine president, Alberto Fernández, apologized for having said, during Pedro Sánchez's visit to Argentina,
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