Tiare Aguilera Hey
{{Short description|Chilean lawyer, politician}}
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|birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1982|02|13}}
| birth_place = Easter Island, Chile
| occupation = Lawyer
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| alma_mater = Andrés Bello National University
University of Wuhan
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| name = Tiare Aguilera Hey
| birth_name = Tiare Maeva Carolina Aguilera Hey
| predecessor = office established
| successor = office abolished
| term_end = July 4, 2022
| term_start = July 4, 2021
| office = Member of the Constitutional Convention of Chile
| constituency = Rapa Nui at-large
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Tiare Maeva Carolina Aguilera Hey{{Cite web|title=Tiare Maeva Carolina Aguilera Hey|url=https://chileconstituyente.cl/constituyentes/tiare-maeva-carolina-aguilera-hey/|access-date=2021-07-11|website=Chile Constituyente|language=es}} is a Rapa Nui attorney and politician. In 2021, she was elected to represent the Rapa Nui people in the Chilean Constitutional Convention.{{Cite web|last=Salazar|first=Ricardo|title=Tiare Aguilera Hey logró la primera mayoría en las convencionales del pueblo Rapa Nui|url=https://rvl.uv.cl/noticias/4750-tiare-aguilera-hey-logro-la-primera-mayoria-en-las-convencionales-del-pueblo-rapa-nui|access-date=2021-07-11|website=RVL, la radio de la Universidad de Valparaíso|language=es-es}}
Early life and legal career
Tiare Aguilera was born and raised{{Cite web|last=ADN|title=Candidata a la Convención Constituyente por el pueblo Rapa Nui: "Espero estar en todo el debate de la Constitución"|url=https://www.adnradio.cl/regional/2021/02/01/candidata-a-la-convencion-constituyente-por-el-pueblo-rapa-nui-espero-estar-en-todo-el-debate-de-la-constitucion.html|access-date=2021-07-11|website=ADN|date=February 2021 |language=es}} on the island of Rapa Nui. She studied at Andrés Bello National University, where she received her degree in law.{{Cite web|date=2021-06-03|title=Serie especial: Nuevos rostros en la constituyente. Tiare Aguilera, un voto clave que busca Chile Vamos para impedir que le pasen la "aplanadora" {{!}} Ex-Ante|url=https://www.ex-ante.cl/serie-especial-nuevos-rostros-en-la-constituyente-tiare-aguilera-un-voto-clave-que-busca-chile-vamos-para-impedir-que-le-pasen-la-aplanadora/|access-date=2021-07-11|website=www.ex-ante.cl|language=es-CL}} Aguilera later attended the University of Wuhan, where she received a master's degree in international public law. Aguilera explained that her decision to study in China as opposed to Chile was due to several reasons, including her Rapa Nui background, the "distinct" Chinese culture and the fact that all Polynesian migrations came from Taiwan. Further stating that the "western gaze ignores the eastern gaze and we as Rapa Nui are closer to the east".{{Cite web|last=Mayorga|first=Francisca|date=2021-05-28|title=De Rapa Nui, pasando por Wuhan, a la Convención: Tiare Aguilera, la constituyente que busca el reconocimiento de su pueblo|url=https://www.latercera.com/la-tercera-pm/noticia/de-rapa-nui-pasando-por-wuhan-a-la-convencion-tiare-aguilera-la-constituyente-que-busca-el-reconocimiento-de-su-pueblo/O5M2N6ONPBCVDII3RIVSAC5QN4/|access-date=2021-07-11|website=La Tercera}} In addition to Rapa Nui, mainland Chile, and China, Aguilera has lived in Spain, New Zealand, and Hawaii.{{Cite web|last=S.A.P|first=El Mercurio|date=2021-01-04|title=Primarias constituyentes en Rapa Nui: Criterio de paridad favoreció al candidato hombre {{!}} Emol.com|url=https://www.emol.com/noticias/Nacional/2021/01/04/1008350/primarias-constituyentes-rapa-nui-paridad.html|access-date=2021-07-11|website=Emol|language=Spanish}}
After returning to Rapa Nui in 2013, Aguilera became an advisor to the Comisión de Desarrollo de la Isla de Pascua (English: "Easter Island Development Commission"), an indigenous decision-making body.{{Cite web|last=Milesi|first=Orlando|date=2019-02-12|title=Rapa Nui afronta amenazas climáticas para sus recursos y sus moai|url=https://ipsnoticias.net/2019/02/rapa-nui-afronta-amenazas-climaticas-recursos-moais/|access-date=2021-07-11|website=IPS Agencia de Noticias|language=es}} By 2016, she was intimately involved in local politics, organizing political events for Governor Melania Hotu.{{Cite web|date=2016-12-07|title=PRIMER CICLO DE CONFERENCIAS DE ASUNTOS DE LA POLINESIA EN RAPA NUI / CHILE.|url=https://www.montraykreyol.org/article/primer-ciclo-de-conferencias-de-asuntos-de-la-polinesia-en-rapa-nui-chile|access-date=2021-07-11|website=Montray Kréyol|language=fr}} During her legal career, she specialized in urban planning law.{{Cite web|date=2019-02-14|title=Rapa Nui's Stone Statues and Marine Resources Face Threats from Climate Change|url=http://www.ipsnews.net/2019/02/rapa-nuis-stone-statues-marine-resources-face-threats-climate-change/|access-date=2021-07-11|website=Inter Press Service}}
Political career
Following a contested primary, Aguilera was chosen as the candidate of the Rapa Nui for a reserved seat in the Chilean Constitutional Convention, and was later formally elected to the position. Political commentators speculated that she could potentially prove a key swing vote in the body following reports that the centre-right Chile Vamos coalition was courting her support for certain legislative measures.
An experiment in comparative law, Aguilera has stated her demand that the new constitution respects the terms and conditions of the 1888 annexation treaty between Chile and Rapa Nui.{{Cite web|last=Chile|first=C. N. N.|title=Tiare Aguilera Hey, la abogada que busca representar al pueblo Rapa Nui en la Constituyente|url=https://www.cnnchile.com/elecciones2021/tiare-aguilera-abogada-rapa-nui-escanos-reservados_20210309/|access-date=2021-07-11|website=CNN Chile|language=es}} The preservation of the Rapa Nui language has been identified by Aguilera as an issue she plans to champion in the Constitutional Assembly. She expressed concerns that the language is at risk of extinction.
Aguilera favors the establishment of a plurinational state in Chile in the interest of determination for indigenous Chileans. She has argued in favor of forming an alliance between indigenous politicians in the Constitutional Convention.{{Cite web|last=Cooperativa.cl|title=Tiare Aguilera, constituyente rapanui: Lo ideal es actuar como bloque indígena|url=https://cooperativa.cl/noticias/pais/politica/constitucion/tiare-aguilera-constituyente-rapanui-lo-ideal-es-actuar-como-bloque/2021-05-20/180746.html|access-date=2021-07-11|website=Cooperativa.cl|language=Spanish}} A proponent of decentralization,{{Cite web|title=Tiare Aguilera, constituyente por Rapa Nui: "Es importante que las políticas tengan pertinencia con las distintas características de los territorios" « Diario y Radio U Chile|url=https://radio.uchile.cl/2021/06/26/tiare-aguilera-constituyente-por-rapa-nui-es-importante-que-las-politicas-tengan-pertinencia-con-las-distintas-caracteristicas-de-los-territorios/|access-date=2021-07-11|language=es-ES}} Aguilera has argued in favor of indigenous autonomy from an environmental perspective, stating:{{Cite web|date=2021-03-26|title=Tiare Aguilera Hey y Agustín Squella dialogan sobre los desafíos de Rapa Nui|url=https://g5noticias.cl/2021/03/26/tiare-aguilera-hey-y-agustin-squella-dialogan-sobre-los-desafios-de-rapa-nui/|access-date=2021-07-11|website=G5noticias|language=es}}
The new constitution must think of territories as ecosystems. The island is already a small, limited territory, but the relationship that the Polynesian people have with the sea is different and we are going to contribute to thatOn economic policy, Aguilera favors increased state intervention and the creation of a generous welfare state in Chile. She argued that the disparities in quality of infrastructure and healthcare between mainland Chile and Rapa Nui meant that the government should have "a much more participatory role" in economic affairs.{{Cite web|last=S.A.P|first=El Mercurio|date=2021-05-27|title=Tiare Aguilera, convencional Rapa Nui: "Espero que los pueblos originarios no seamos un apéndice del proceso constituyente" {{!}} Emol.com|url=https://www.emol.com/noticias/Nacional/2021/05/27/1022145/Tiare-Aguilera-convencional-Rapa-Nui.html|access-date=2021-07-11|website=Emol|language=Spanish}} During her campaign, she endorsed enshrining a right to housing and a right to water in the new constitution.{{Cite web|last=pauta|title=Qué proponen los candidatos de Rapa Nui en la nueva Constitución|url=https://www.pauta.cl/politica/mi-constitucion-en-60-palabras-pueblo-originario-rapanui|access-date=2021-07-11|website=pauta|date=11 May 2021 |language=es-CL}}
In local politics, Aguilera has praised efforts to expand Rapa Nui's rainwater harvesting system, noting that such initiatives are necessary given the island's diminishing water supply.{{Cite web|date=2019-02-22|title=Local School Is a Model for Energy and Water in Rapa Nui|url=http://www.ipsnews.net/2019/02/local-school-model-energy-water-rapa-nui/|access-date=2021-07-11|website=Inter Press Service}} She has emphasized the need to protect the marine parks present on Rapa Nui.{{Cite web|last=Castillo|first=Francisca|date=4 May 2021|title=Tiare Aguilera Hey, candidata a constituyente Rapa Nui: "Tenemos un problema de conectividad serio a nivel insular (...) dependemos de muchas cosas del continente"|url=https://www.elmostrador.cl/noticias/pais/2021/05/04/tiare-aguilera-hey-candidata-a-constituyente-rapa-nui-tenemos-un-problema-de-conectividad-serio-a-nivel-insular-dependemos-de-muchas-cosas-del-continente/|website=El Mostrador}}