Ope PASQUET
Senator. Advocate
"must ensure life / in such a way / that is alive in death" . These verses of Juan Zorrilla de San Martín were written with bronze letters on the bust of the "Poet of the Patria " we saw the students of the Lyceum Zorrilla when we entered class every day, back in the late sixties and early seventies. Sometimes we reflect on their own initiative and as a soloist on the meaning of those words. On other occasions were the teachers who presented their comments and told us that comentásemos us. Speaking of "Patria Legend" or "Tabaré" he would come to light Zorrilla's exhortation to deal one's life as a work of transcendent vocation. It was good seed to plant in the minds of adolescents.
CODICEN If approved a recent resolution of the Board of Secondary Education, students attending the Liceo No. 1 Mine read every day text of a plaque that reads: "Here lived Ricardo Zabalza Waksman (1948-1969). Was among a group of young idealists and dreamers who wanted a better country as you dreamed Artigas. He joined the Tupamaros MLN participated in the "Making Pando" and was wounded in the Spot Capra. Fell the ground bleeding from several wounds, was executed with a bullet in the neck by a soldier who was ordered by a colonel. Both know the name. Mines, April 2009. Truth commission. "
The so called "making Pando" took place on October 8, 1969. It was a criminal act, a spectacular and bloody Tupamaros, which took a clean sweep a police station and other public while plundered banks and rose to loot hundreds of thousands of dollars. The police intervened, clashes and several people were killed, among them Ricardo Zabalza.
In the sixties, the Tupamaros were determined to seize power through violence. The dictatorship would begin only in 1973, but ten years earlier, in full observance of democratic institutions, the Tupamaros had begun to commit crimes to achieve their purposes. First there were thefts and robberies, then kidnapping, bombings, killings . Believed that the end-the triumph of socialist revolution and anti-imperialist who longed-justified the use of those means. Presented their own lives in the company, and some lost it. They also took the lives of others, not just those of the police military and serving his duty, faced, but also civilians oblivious to the fight (a neighbor of Pando, bowling cleaner Carrasco, a rural laborer, etc.)..
political violence unleashed by the Tupamaros, when this could change the government peacefully and through the vote, he did huge damage to Uruguay (as I write this note, I hear on the radio comments about Leonardo's new book Haberkorn, Milica and Tupas, I still suggest that we ignore the full extent of the damage and therefore the responsibility of those who caused it.)
Tupamaros struggle against democratic institutions (not against the dictatorship, it does not hurt to repeat it) is not an example of anything except what not to do. The dedication and even heroism of those who were engaged in this criminal attack against the institutions that are the soul of Uruguay, Uruguay are the same, do not warrant or redeems them. They were also brave and selfless in their own way, fans who blew themselves up to bring down the Twin Towers in New York, and anyone thinks of honorees.
A commemorative plaque, a portrait, a bust placed in an educational establishment, are so many incentives to emulate the honorees. The conduct of those who took up arms against the republic and tried to impose their political beliefs to others through violence, should not be given to high school students as an example to follow. Should exalt tolerance, respect for others, attachment to Constitution and the law, not violence.
Students of the Lyceum No. 1 Mine have the right to form as individuals and as citizens, to cultivate the values \u200b\u200bthat give meaning to being Uruguay.
Before the High Council's lost, is now the responsibility of CODICEN ensure that right.
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