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Ataque incendiario al interior del Liceo Lastarria

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A student planned for four months to attack first graders at Instituto Lezaeta, calling it 'Day of Wrath' in his notebooks.

1. El Diario de Cooperativa PM broadcasts a Chilean news day anchored by two major school violence incidents and political controversy over the SERNAMEG director's forced resignation. 2. Host Rodrigo and co-host Verónica Franco coordinate correspondents Felipe Cofrén, Dayana Márquez in Calama, Cristian Aburto in Curicó, Claudio from Angol, Gloria Gutiérrez, Camila López, and Mariano Reyes. 3. The episode's core tension is whether a wave of school violence incidents reflects isolated crises or, as the Defensoría de la Niñez argues, a structural deterioration in the conditions of Chilean children and adolescents. 4. At Liceo José Victorino Lastarria in Providencia, three hooded students hid in a bathroom, concealed blue bottles containing gasoline, lit a garbage bin in the schoolyard with Molotov bombs during the first recess, and then set fire to the inspectorate office causing significant damage to upper rooms. 5. Teachers themselves controlled the fire with extinguishers; one teacher sustained a hand injury; the entire student body was evacuated and classes suspended for the day. 6. Students interviewed confirmed that the hooded individuals were enrolled students at the school, not external infiltrators, and that they deployed a banner linked to 'el día del joven combatiente,' a date associated with left-wing student political memory in Chile. 7. Providence Mayor Jaime Velolio announced that one of the three students has been identified, characterized the group as 'extreme anarchist left-wing,' and announced formal charges would be filed under the safe classroom law. 8. In Calama, the formalization hearing for HML—the 18-year-old who killed his inspector at the Instituto Silva Lezaeta—revealed through prosecutor Eduardo Peña that the attack was planned for approximately 4 months under the name 'Ten Irae' or 'Day of Wrath,' documented in confiscated notebooks. 9. The attacker specifically selected first-grade elementary children as his primary targets, describing them in writing as 'easy and pure targets,' and entered the school with a 68-centimeter katana and a simulated explosive device. 10. Formal charges include one count of qualified homicide with treachery and known premeditation, three counts of frustrated qualified homicide, arms law violations for explosive devices, and aggravated circumstances for targeting victims by age and targeting minors. 11. The 15-year-old injured student and a teaching assistant remain hospitalized in serious condition; the prosecution requested preventive detention, and the hearing was still underway at broadcast time. 12. In Curicó, a 15-year-old at the Colegio Polivalente Japón was found to have brought a loaded firearm (registered to his grandmother) to school; a teacher spotted the weapon when the student refused to enter the building and alerted Carabineros and the student's mother, who confirmed the firearm's presence. 13. The Curicó student was released under 'sujeción a vigilancia' (supervised release with psychological support) rather than preventive detention, as this falls under adolescent criminal responsibility law focused on reintegration. 14. In Angol, an Araucanía student at Liceo Comercial Armando Bravo was detained carrying two firearms, drugs, and cash in his backpack; one firearm was voluntarily handed to the school director before Carabineros arrived and found the rest. 15. The Defensoría de la Niñez stated that these incidents 'are not isolated events but reflect a structural problem evidencing widespread deterioration in the life conditions of children and adolescents,' calling for family and community-level interventions alongside physical security measures. 16. On medical leave fraud, Contraloría General Dorothy Pérez revealed a new consolidated figure: 6,311 public officials were found to have worked in the private sector during periods when they held active medical leave; the organizations with the most cases are Fundación Integra, JUNJI, the Concepción Health Service, University of Chile, and the Viña del Mar-Quillota Health Service. 17. Legal expert Gustavo Riveros explained that criminal liability depends on whether the medical leave itself was fraudulently obtained; if the leave was genuine but the official violated the rest obligation by working elsewhere, it becomes an administrative rather than criminal matter. 18. President Kast's first radio interview with ARCHA at three weeks into his administration covered: defense of not subsidizing fuel prices ('helping the most vulnerable, not the middle class'), announcement of a voluntary salary reduction 'soon,' defense of Security Minister Trinidad Steiner, and framing his social versus cultural battle distinction. 19. The SERNAMEG director Priscila Carrasco controversy drew cross-party criticism including from Kast's own coalition: ex-minister Carla Rubilar called the timing 'incoherent,' former presidential candidate Evelyn Matthei endorsed that view, and Senate president Paulina Núñez of Renovación Nacional called for 'more empathy and compassion.' 20. Listeners interested in Chilean school violence policy, adolescent justice, public sector fraud, or the opening weeks of the Kast administration will find dense, real-time reporting across all four topics.

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