In the act, in addition to paying tribute to Santiago Nattino, José Manuel Parada and Manuel Guerrero, they called to reject the proposal popularly known as the “easy trigger law”, strongly criticized by different entities, including the high commissioner for human rights of the UN and, in contrast, defended by the president of the UDI.
Santiago. 2/1/2023. Thirty-eight years have passed since the kidnapping and murder at the hands of Carabineros agents of the communist professionals Santiago Nattino, José Manuel Parada and Manuel Guerrero. As is tradition, the Association of Relatives of the Politically Executed (AFEP) together with the Communist Party and the College of Teachers and Teachers, organized a caravan from Vicuña Mackenna to the Las Tres Sillas Memorial located on Avenida Américo Vespucio in the commune of Renca.
A few meters from where the bodies were found, a heartfelt tribute was held to the three communist militants of the Communist Party, murdered in one more of the criminal operations carried out by the dictatorship.
The place was attended by the Ministers of Government, Camila Vallejo and Jeannete Jara, as well as the Undersecretary for Human Rights, Xavier Altamirano, and the Undersecretary for Justice, Jaime Gajardo. Deputy Daniela Serrano, and Deputy Boris Barrera, Deputy Andrés Giordano, the General Secretary of the Communist Party, Lautaro Carmona, and the candidate for constitutional counselor for the Metropolitan Region, Karen Araya Rojas (PC).
The event was attended by the community chief of Pudahuel, Italo Bravo, the mayor of Quilicura, Paulina Bobadilla Navarrete and Claudio Castro Salas, mayor of the commune of Renca. Victoria Guerrero, sister of Manuel Guerrero, Alicia Lira Matus, president of the AFEP, Gaby Rivera, president of the Association of Relatives of the Detained-Disappeared (AFDD) and Paulina Cartagena, of the Human Rights Department of the College of Teachers and Professors, daughter of Cristián Cartagena, a professor executed by the Carabineros in Paine in 1973. In addition, the relatives of the five murdered in the Kayser Case were present, for whom the call for justice was also extended.
On the occasion, Lautaro Carmona referred to the statement by the president of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI), who rejected the position of the United Nations to question the “Nain-Retamal law” to give prerogatives to the Carabineros in the use of their weapons. “Javier Macaya responds with the same arrogance and arrogance, without any basic consideration regarding the issue being dealt with, as the dictatorship did, year following year in the 17 years that the United Nations condemned State terrorism in Chile” , indicated the leader of the PC.
In addition, he added that it is the duty of social mobilization to become part of the fight once morest the denialism that the right is trying to install 50 years following the civil-military coup. “We are not willing to concede denial under any conditions, and a kind of weakening of what is an axis that cannot be renounced for civic and correct coexistence among human beings.”
Alicia Lira Matus, addressing the nearly half a thousand people who were listening, stated that “the Nain-Retamal law should not be approved, and those who vote in favor of this law must be denounced, because it goes once morest human rights, because It must be remembered that José Manuel, Santiago, Manuel, Mauricio, Paulina, Rafael, Eduardo and Oscar were murdered by police officers; They have never delivered information, they have never lost their forgiveness, we demand true justice and reparation for the victims of the dictatorship and the victims of Sebastian Piñera”.
Paulina Cartagena expressed that “as a College of Teachers and Professors we count on one of our central purposes, to promote and defend human rights and the advancement of solidarity. At 38 years old, we vindicate the tenacious fight that three of ours gave. 38 years following the horrendous crimes, we raise their names with strength and dignity so that no one forgets them: Jose Manuel Parada, Manuel Guerrero Ceballos and Santiago Nattino.”
Victoria Guerrero, Manuel’s sister, gave her statements 38 years following the crime that took her brother’s life. “We had very difficult times, but we wanted to be here, to say comrades, this is not over. When we still see that there are traces of wanting to mark and continue to impose impunity, the truth is that this easy trigger law would be more oppression. We who thought we had seen it all and today, 50 years following the military coup, still think and have, what will become of us if we do not unite, as my father asked at my brother’s funeral, unite, let’s unite” , held.
The act culminated with a delivery of carnations to the authorities, who with those present deposited them in the Memorial of the murdered.
