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"Chilean President Jose Antonio Kast announced on Monday that in the coming days he will submit a bill to create a 'vandals' register', under which the 'social benefits' of those who commit 'acts of incivility' in public spaces will be restricted. During his first State of the Nation Address, delivered before the National Congress in Santiago, the president explained that the register will target those who commit offences such as attacking Carabineros officers, healthcare workers, obstructing public transport, drug trafficking, damaging national monuments, among others. "They will have to answer for their actions. This idea that nobody is responsible is going to come to an end, and those who engage in any of these behaviours will lose social benefits, and that will be a reality," he said. "Nobody who burns a bus, nobody who destroys public property deserves free higher education. A good education is incompatible with the destruction of public assets. Nobody who destroys public property deserves a guaranteed universal pension. They must take responsibility for the damage they cause to our nation," he added. Kast also announced the forthcoming deployment of an Intensive Neighbourhood Intervention Plan in 50 areas considered critical, aimed at coordinating the efforts of various state institutions to combat crime. "We are going to deploy an intensive neighbourhood intervention plan that will bring together the capabilities of the State in an initial 50 critical neighbourhoods. In those 50 critical neighbourhoods, we will demonstrate the true strength and power of the State. And as we recover one neighbourhood, we will move on to the next," he said. According to the president, the strategy will include targeted police saturation operations, with preventive patrols and operations directed against illicit markets and criminal organisations. The president also stated that his government will maintain a tougher security policy and asserted that organised crime 'has no place in Chile'."
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