x Jorge Zabalza With the government "progressive" social gap will increase. Settlements continue to grow with the homeless who can not pay rent. Summaries Zabalza words in the presentation of book Sendic Raúl, the Tupamaro "
That last Sunday in November 1958 turned fifteen. That same day national elections were held that whites defeated the Reds, while in internal motto, right-wing coalition (Herrera and Nardone) beat Blanca Democratic Union, whose cast is highlighted by the leader ability to hide the most reactionary ideas. In our department, whites were twice that of Colorado and the list-rural blacksmith who led my father doubled his rivals within the National Party. Therefore, my father was elected to the National Director of Government time, Senator and Mayor of Lavalleja. As "worked" like crazy during the whole campaign, was happier than a dog with two tails. It was the best birthday present, the feast was done in the streets of the city of Minas, surrounded by cheering voters, welcomed everyone.
On 1 March 59 was the change of rulers. Enthusiastic about the speech that was whipping the peasantry invaded the capital to assist in the eviction of the "clad 15" Luis Batlle Berres. A small crowd left unseen Allied Park. Castles Ataliva once told me that even neighboring Bernabé Rivera, his hometown, perhaps the most isolated country, they came from far away by truck to toast the victory of the "botudos against galerudos." Meanwhile
Nardone, Juan José Gari, Faustino Harrison and my father met with U.S. Ambassador to cook the stew; result: A year later, the counter Azzini signed the first letter of intent with the IMF Uruguay . So a teenager I learned that the leaders have the ability to twist reality and make that reality, twisted by demagoguery, then meat on people, even intellectuals of the stature of Claudio Williman Methol Ferré. Delight of those below the top business ... and long live democracy!. After
93 years of Colorado Party's monopoly had been peaceful rotation of the cast of government, no military riots and threatening speeches. At that Uruguay, 1959, the Executive Branch was chartered and minority representation, the budgetary initiative lay primarily in the parliament (parliamentary procedure), the influence of the evil totalitarian, international communism, was under control in Uruguay, where there was staff confidence in the leaders of traditional parties, which is essential for the smooth functioning damper system.
had been enshrined the autonomy of the university and the student co-government, power that FEUU allowed to Ernesto Che Guevara invited to speak at the auditorium in 1961. Perhaps impressed by these formal appearances, his speech invited us to take care of the democratic freedoms that prevailed in the Switzerland of America. The newspaper El Pais and magazines LIFE VISION and comparing our democracy commoner with the queen of all democracies, the estadonidense. A democratic apotheosis.
A against the current climate, Raul Sendic wrote in the weekly "EL SOL" in 1958: "The regime that prevails in our country has a face and a mask. The mask is the appearance of freedom and democracy that only the rich experience and shown to the outside. " Raised under the shadow of the ideological wing of the owners of Uruguay, having read them, those words of Raul nonsense I have seemed incomprehensible that he refused to enjoy the spiritual welfare causes bourgeois democracy, my father qualified people who thought and the "children of leftists ultrismo Sorocabana Coffee."
However, the reflections of Sendic shod like a glove on the reality of many people: the dairy farm laborers beaten by the police to claim his, UTE workers who had come down the lever, the port and refrigerators who were the police occupation of the Villa del Cerro, workers in rice, beet and sugar cane ... possibly the vast majority of them had voted their employers, but union struggles "fuel the brain" and the employees knew very well the real face of democracy. When five years later the white rulers took the first security measures, from the bosom of these workers were many of those who accompanied Raul when he chose the gun as a tool of struggle. It was an ideological choice individual and collective, driven by the desire to place the horizon in front of the revolutionary social and political struggles. Option horizon that were paid with hundreds lives between 1966 and 1985, lives recorded in enforced disappearances, deaths in battle, murder in the streets, in the torture and prisons.
The barracks are keeping their abominable secrets, these officials to chat openly in their casinos. but hide the judiciary and the public. Until the truth about these crimes Uruguayan democracy will remain a lie.
A "new official" education in the law of "omerta", learn to lie to the people and escape justice, to justify crimes against humanity as pragmatic necessities of war "subversive" believe integrating a upper caste, the custodian of "high values \u200b\u200bthat made the country. " To make matters worse his convictions are confirmed when the commander Rosales and four major generals are allowed to defend the general impunity Dalmao, imprisoned for terrorist state. The same double standards practiced in the Congo and Haiti, schools where they learn to control and repress their people as they talk about peace, to dehumanize guise of "humanitarian missions". In the current armed forces, bourgeois democracy is raising condor chicks to start in the eyes of birds tomorrow.
Who decides the amount of wages of workers, of all the private and public? The "team economy ", with Fernando Lorenzo Pedro Buonomo head and number two, involved both in advising venture capitalists. With Tabaré Aguerre, rancher and "producer" rice. Ministers coming from the business, where they were educated by the rate of return and "good business", ie how to screw employees. Solidarity is a verse to coax Frente. Daily
out to explain, with audacity and impudence, to those who understand and who do not, that in the next five years will remain the same economic policies of the previous five years, therefore, in the period 2010-2015: No redistribution of income or wealth! Not fulfill what was promised in the election campaign. Is explained in the hermetic language of their profession so that no one understands a lot and every thirty seconds, repeating the word magic "social policies", fetish to catch voters and console the poor who are on the tarp. The only way to redistribute material is taken so that the wage bill to grow much more than GDP growth, a policy that the "economic team" and the government behind it are not willing to take because they do not want to break with social class owner of Uruguay ... that, indeed, are at the same time the owners of this democracy.
Consequently, inequality is maintained, the social gap will remain higher than before 2002. Each year the settlements continue to grow with the homeless who can not pay rent or fees, four out of ten teenagers will continue not to enter the labor market because they are literate enough, the interior ministers still amazed at the growth of robberies and trafficking in cocaine base ... also continue to increase the number of zero kilometers purchased by the owners of fields, one in a thousand Uruguayans, who watched as they enlarged the estate without having to work, simply Indeed the increase in land prices over the past seven years, more than 30 billion dollars in total appropriated the estates in this way, equivalent to what the Uruguay produces per year. Enough to buy several democracies ....
The rich will become richer and the poor throw them a few bucks more for the taking as can be, to continue indulging his silence demobilized from the proper conduct of business in Uruguay. In between, the unionized workers, aware that the prices increase production and international demand are keen to take the time to rise and fight for a substantial improvement in income. A their battles eventually clarify the understanding and allow many to discover the true boundary, which separates Uruguay owners of employees, regardless of the party colors.
The U.S. ambassador, a certain "Mr. Nelson, here in Santa Catalina, a couple of blocks from home, as he placed the cornerstone of future training ground for the" peace missions ", said Uruguay and the rule share the concepts of freedom, democracy and human rights ... As no one came out refuting government or a single word, the question arises: is it true what this man says?, Is not there differences between U.S. democracy and that democracy the Uruguay XXI century?, do they contain the same principles of freedom and humanity? So one can say that we are a disaster, we live a semblance of democratic life, just the heat a little class struggle, showing teeth and out to exercise state power, police and troops pouring into the streets, throwing on those who have the audacity to claim back wages to achieve the promised redistribution of income.
More than half a century of "recent history" stretched to my old sixty-seven fifteen years, thanks to the simple fact of survival I have the privilege of knowing this new version of the apotheosis of democracy. New wineskins of course, but the same old wines as ever. Distrust of the democratic euphoria, I refuse to buy the beads that were sold before the Uruguay Batllist, I refuse to dawn bitten by the same snake that bit me fifty years ago as a teenager ruralista blacksmith.
democracy in Uruguay is cut by the barrack secret dungeons and falsified by the demagoguery of the leaders .... do not believe in this kind of democracy as alien to the dispossessed, as socially unjust, as protective of impunity. I feel I must say, the front, although most believe more in the congratulations to Hillary Clinton in anti outbursts but ... no are fed up with both lines?, do not you fall indigestible many frogs?.
La Haine
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