What a life uniquely yours rugged Joaquín. Tour ends this existence looking irony the" designs "that this story reserved for you. As September 7 that when being written in bullets that sacred image in the order of the tyrant, an image that only existed in his mind terrified and then called miracle because he survived that day. Later repeatedly telling me how desperate you saw the glass shatter just, and continues to give shots within inches of the car accelerated and fled. Missed so little for him to open the way to death voracious. "One or two seconds and broke the glass" you said you and then we stopped to think how some fortuitous circumstances and / or insignificant, often determines the course of history, and according to you, the latter always has more imagination than men. I also think that your pain, your last night. No physical pain that the cancer will produce, but that inhabits the deepest corners of consciousness. That same pain you felt sometimes that also died, when endured seventeen days of torture in the dungeons of the CNI, back in Viña, and months later to meet again on the streets of Santiago exhaustively told me: "You know company, it is preferable to die torture, as well as immense physical pain, it is totally degrading. I caught the pigs alive again. " Years later, you were an exemplary consistent with those words when in Vicuña Mackenna, you resisted being captured by the "pigs." In unequal combat, and while you were slowly succumbing lead pierced your flesh and shattered bones, thought ... "what a pain, my greatest pain is not being with my brothers today ..." Yes
Joaquin, and I remember you wrote in a note sent us from the hospital, telling your "work accident." Were willing to pay the price of death to escape the torturers, then, three years in prison, where you had to relearn to walk, could be a reasonable price but it was because at that piece of time we lost the best and most beloved Front. Corpus Cristi "then" The Queñes "wrapped us in a grief that will never dissipate. Do not forget your despair and helplessness when expressed from a prison that we honor our dead. It was time to burn bridges.
Some time later, you crawled choked by dust in an endless tunnel. Achieved with other brothers back with us. The dictatorship ended. We had done our thing, but the tyrant was still stalking the days of our country.
loads all those scars as marks of your story. Bedridden and feverish there remember them one by one. The faithful Miriam watches over your agony. Perhaps only the prescient, lost as you are, in your memories. Lobo do not know how many times I've imagined in those last hours, fighting for a dignified death.
No doubt you've also mentioned, with satisfaction, your last mission accomplished. That he refused in definitive terms the greatest right ideologue Pinochet, with those words highlighted the strategic dimension, when we talked about the implications of that fact. Also once categorically concluded, "may have been a political mistake, but it was a just action." Thus emphasizing the moral argument of our policy "No to Impunity", which was more than anything, an ethical imperative.
I know your biggest pain was not being with your brothers in that last goodbye, final night. I keep your image intact
the last time we met before travel, where you expressed your concern for me to preserve the legacy of Joseph Michael, Tamara and other prominent rodriguistas, with regard to the moral authority of the core leadership, the example personal.
In our goodbye hug concentrated all the unspoken words ... and you still wonder why you did not ask you to accompany him on this last trip? I just said "take care of the boys." Your
Joaquin Facundo, recognized by excellence as a man of action in the front ranks of respected and appreciated by operational feats which were the most prominent, were also a prolific man of ideas, and was always well stocked with them, listening and questioning. No wonder if the school came from MIR, an admirer of Michael, a school that encouraged critical thinking, you were proud of those origins, as well as being the only member of the Board without preparation of any kind abroad. You said wryly who stood all the time in Chile, fighting the dictatorship.
beat you so many memories of my memory, your clear, hard life, your life short but man enough to graduate.
Memories of your brother who bears the burden of survival. Mauricio Hernández Norambuena
(20 years)
MAURICIO ARENAS
Bejas. LIFE OF A RODRIGUISTA. Mauricio Arenas
Bejas, Commander Joaquin "El Lobo"
Mauricio was born in Valparaíso one day in May 1959. In the harbor filled with stories of struggles of fishermen, sailors, stevedores grows "The Wolf" in the face of injustice, amid the endless fights of all those men of land and sea, tireless fighters for a life with dignity. Still a child at the port is able to perceive the enormous impact led on all around the triumph of popular government of Salvador Allende. Just three years later and despite his young age was able to perceive with clarity the terrible drama that marked the 1973 military coup. Never forget the violence and brutality employed by the military against the port workers and young activists of the People's Government. Perhaps there was always sown for his unswerving commitment to fight against the military dictatorship and his regime.
completed his elementary studies in public schools in Region V, conducted secondary education at the Liceo Eduardo de la Barra. All high school and college made them into a dictatorship, This was meant to forge in the middle of control, fear, persecution and militarism in education that prevailed under the military regime. Instead of being intimidated at this stage actively joined all youth and student struggles of that time. Login
the Revolutionary Students Federation (ERF) where he quickly demonstrated his leadership skills by actively participating in the student strikes, and high school footage of protest rallies.
higher education studies in philosophy at the University of Playa Ancha, where he excelled in wrestling and student fighting against the dictatorship and military regime governing student in universities Chile. In the 80 suffers "banishment" for their active participation in student protests. On two occasions he was confined for 6 months in remote and inhospitable villages in northern Chile. Contact with those people living in miserable conditions, plus the suffering of relatives and friends who caused this unusual punishment, far from it abandon their ideas impel them to seek new and better ways to fight.
Here's how to enter the Young Communists in 1980 and the end of 1983 fully incorporates the formation of the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front in the V region. He was an active participant in the organization and training of this strange organization political-military scenario erupts in Chile in December 1983. As a firefighter to attend and participate in early trading the Frente organized.
In July 1984 he was arrested by forces of Valparaiso CNI following his participation in an armed propaganda operation carried out in Spain Valparaiso Avenue. A policeman is shot in wanting to prevent the execution of the operation. Following this task is stopped by the CNI and taken to the barracks at that time worked in Agua Santa Avenue. There he met with brutality and terror as officials of the repressive apparatus. Despite the terrible tortures, remained silent, nothing found him to move to the military prosecutor of the V region. Thanks to his courageous attitude is sentenced to prison for a few months in the year 84.
Leaving prison poses the National Mission will be fully integrated into working for the organization. He moved to Santiago, and since then, away from family and loved ones, assumes full rigors of the life of an underground fighter. In the harsh conditions imposed by the dictatorship, this fact alone demonstrates the high degree of conviction he had in his principles.
His background is dizzying, met numerous operations benefited from their participation. It recalls the successful execution of Simon Yévenes, server and reporting of the dictatorship entered a popular population. A triple assault on the armory, a propaganda action capture editor of the newspaper La Nacion that was returned safely to their families. All urban actions, the first being conducted by the organization, full of mysticism, many mistakes and desire to excel in this unprecedented task performed Chilean youth.
operation twentieth century ambush Pinochet in September 1986, represents all the values \u200b\u200bof Mauritius. To arise for this spectacular mission were all clear that the possibility of survival were slim. Despite the risks and of immeasurable magnitude, "The Wolf" felt when he learned that participate in the execution of this "major terrorist" did not hesitate for a moment that there could fully realize their dreams of bringing the truth to the future of Chile.
wounded in the operation, he recovered and evaded the police cordon laid by the repressive apparatus against some fighters Rodriguistas participants that memorable action. Weeks later he moved to the south where it develops new tasks assigned by the organization.
Back in Santiago one day February 19, 1987 is caught by officers of IPC at the height of the whereabouts of Vicuña Mackenna 14 while traveling in a vehicle. The enfrentamiento fue de una desigualdad sorprendente, “El Lobo" estaba sólo frente a efectivos de la CNI, carabineros y más tarde ante la imposibilidad de abatirlo se incorporaron fuerzas militares. Atrincherado en un vehículo vaciando sus tres cargadores, en ese desigual combate por más de una hora luchó hasta caer detenido casi moribundo. Herido con siete impactos de bala en el tórax, manos, rostro y ambas piernas. En un desenfrenado odio las fuerzas represivas ametrallan sus piernas fracturándoselas en numerosas partes. Joaquín —como entonces le llamaban sus compañeros— es llevado al hospital Sotero del Río donde vivió un largo período de incomunicación, torturas, e interrogatorios. Aunque was again a prisoner had tried to do the deal taken with a brother: "to die rather than fall into enemy hands."
Manager accused in tax then Fernando Torres, and still recovering he was transferred to the prison and then to the public prison where he participated in all movements initiated by the political prisoners to win his freedom.
His prison term ends on the morning of January 30, 1990 in a spectacular escape where many political prisoners through a long tunnel achieved their freedom.
Mauritius joins the fight again. Months underground, new tasks in the difficult conditions of that year 1990. His last paragraph of his life given what wrote on October 12, 1991, at 33 years of age, at which time a charge had failed to bend it until the last minute. Lung cancer brought him down as a silent enemy.
Joaquin's brother, Wolf, did all his best work after his fall in 1988, Rodrigo and Tamara. Always said that led contingent of fighters in a permanent tribute to his brothers and heads Rodrigo y Tamara.
For them, his son, by the thousands of children in our village, by Joaquin and all our heroes today the FPMR up their flags and heroic traditions to widen the road where they spent Rodrigo y Tamara, Joachim and thousands of patriots to victory of tenderness and hope of justice and truth. Mauricio Arenas
Bejas, our dear Joachim, died at age 33, but his memory and example will live forever in us, because his legacy lives on, enduring, germinating seeds in the younger generation who take the call that not give up, those who have started their walk to become revolutionaries.
Farewell Brother Joaquín!
Source: CEME - Centro de Estudios Miguel Enríquez - Archive Chile
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