Currently, she works as President of a drinking water supply system in San José,[1] located within the municipality of Cabildo.
In this context, Danish supermarket chains Lidl & Aldi decided to refrain from buying this fruit.
The coercion that both Verónica Vilches and her partner Rodrigo Mundaca allege[1] included threats such as "if you keep causing trouble with the water, we are going to kill you.
"[9] In view of this, on April 5, 2017, lawyers Margarita Barbería and Rodrigo Román filed a Preventive protection in the Court of Appeals of Valparaíso in favor of Verónica Vilches,[10] due to death threats from unknown persons.
[11] On June 7, 2018, Amnesty International delivered more than 50,000 signatures to the Valparaíso regional prosecutor, Pablo Gómez Niada, requesting the authorities to implement effective protection measures for the members of MODATIMA, urging immediate exhaustive and impartial investigations on the threats and attacks against human rights defenders, to make their results public and to bring to justice those suspected of being criminally responsible.