Jara’s weapon.
Tuesday, March 8, 2005 • Posted by jcb
Gladys Marín died two days ago.
SANTIAGO, Chile, March 6 - Gladys Marín, the longtime leader of Chile’s small Communist Party and a leader in the fight against the 1973-90 military dictatorship, died Sunday. She was 63 and had been treated for a brain tumor.
While her party was never powerful, Ms. Marín pressed on with the battle against the former president, Augusto Pinochet, even after he stepped down. She became a well-known human rights advocate and a leader in the effort to bring Mr. Pinochet, 89, to trial for abuses under his military government.
Read the full NY TIMES article here
I would guess to some Ms. Marín is simply a footnote to a history long since forgotten and better left that way, and they may be correct. However I disagree. I believe her story is the story of struggle over domination and oppression, for freedom and TRUE self determination. This story is ongoing not only for Latin America but also for America and the Greater World. Nevertheless Ms. Marín’s historical estimation is without question. After the many great leaders in her country were brutally tortured and murdered, including her husband Jorge Muñoz and the incomparable Chilean folk singer Victor Jara, she persisted. Not only did she persist, her help succeeded in ending the oppressive regime of Augusto Pinochet and in the process secured a better future for her country without the help of many of her fallen male compatriots.
I have an amazing Chilean friend who is one of the most remarkable men I have ever met. He exudes an inner strength that is oddly commanding and at the same time peaceful. He would sometimes tell me stories of the rage he felt as a young man living under the Pinochet regime. Several times he risked his life just to throw rocks or bottles at the government troops who tortured his friends and relatives while they marauded his country. It feels good knowing he is in this world.
Is fighting for what we all know is right, dead to my generation? Who will stand up and question?
You plant a demon seed
You raise a fire of flower.
Outside, is America.
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Posted by: jcb at March 10, 2005 10:16 PM
What??? I only get comments when I post Brazilian T & A. I promise Witzy in a sunga …. VERY SOON.
Posted by: yomama at March 14, 2005 01:32 PM
a flower child spawns another flower child, the little acorn… etc..
I am glad to see idealism is alive and well in South America; North America now has sold out to Jesus H. Christ and the Republican Party and
T. Almighty Dollar.
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