Chilean minister resigns over human rights museum criticism

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chilean president Sebastian Pinera's pick for culture minister was forced to resign on Monday, just days into his new job, after criticism mounted over comments he made in 2015 about a human rights museum in capital Santiago. Mauricio Rojas, a Chilean-Swedish political economist and member of Pinera's center-right coalition, questioned the validity of the Museum of History and Human Rights, which opened in 2010 and documents abuses during the 1973-1990 military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet

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