As previously warned, the 2023 law enacted by Boric for “privileged self-defense” and “imminent danger” serves as the culmination of the war apparatus that Piñera and the right activated in 2019 against the “powerful enemy.” It has effectively worked as the perfect shield and endorsement to present the police executioner as a victim of violence while simultaneously embodying the necessary order and sacrifice, while Gatica and those like him, marked forever by state violence, are labeled the public enemy.