Special Clarin, published on 06/01/2010
By Bernardo Reyes
That day the soldiers arrived at the home of Don Victor, maybe a second or third floor of a small building located near the corner of Av Germany Dr. Carrillo Street.
From the beginning tried to denigrate the hieratic principle: Guns pushing the butt and back, was a language clear enough to say that the days of the change had arrived in Temuco, his beloved Catholic University where the office of rector.
A couple of blocks between his home of Campus Menchaca Lira, and so far arrived trembling, enjoined by force of arms on his back, to open the university. Raviola
argues in a statement to the wife of Venturelli, and then confirmed to police that his nervousness prevented him from opening the door.
Raviola also told him that the officer charge of the operation, armed to the teeth, had rebuked rudely, telling him that if he could not open a door, as I was to pretend to run a university.
then ordered his troops to kick down the door of the university to teach a good time how change could materialize in a short period of time. The
enforcement orders from Pinochet's military coup, was Alfonso Podlech Michaud, military prosecutor Tucapel Regiment of Temuco. And military uniform, though these days it refuses, as brazenly denied that ever was even military prosecutor.
Podlech, detenido el 26 de julio de 2008, en el aeropuerto Barajas de Madrid, miró con perplejidad a sus captores ese inimaginable día de su detención. Mientras leen sus derechos, que de sobra el conocía en su calidad de jurisconsulto, le informan que actúan por una orden de aprehensión vigente proveniente de Italia, una orden de captura internacional originada en la causa de la desaparición de Omar Venturelli Leonelli, profesor de aquella pequeña universidad en donde el dio la orden de derribar la puerta principal para que entrara a establecerse el fascismo.
Venturelli, ciudadano italiano, era un hombre de izquierda reconocido en la región mapuche donde floreciera la poesía de Neruda.
Vinculado to what today is called the Mapuche land reclamation, in a political movement called Christians for Socialism was certainly right identified by the coup as a stirrer international Marxism, a red priest, who left the priesthood to live in concubinage with Fresia Cea, a former Providence College student from Temuco.
Nobody remembers the political legacy of former priest, not even the left press, as if the sole virtue of being a sympathizer had been left and had joined his life to that of Fresia. Victor
Raviola, was one of the guests at the marriage of Omar and Fresia. That day was personally to deliver your gift to the home of the newlyweds.
All, in one way or another, were Christians. Even Don Victor, who during the dictatorship many saw it as an informer, was forced to sign deportation orders for teachers of Catholic Univ, as shown by their signatures on each document.
His legacy is rather modest literature professor, political supporter rather passive likely a being to survive in life decent occupied the default strategy, with which no one could question it seriously.
His testimony referred to Alfonso Podlech, in investigating the case of Omar Venturelli Leonelli, is proof of this issue confirms that the very widow.
"Scope" was the name of one of the classes that the former priest was at the Catholic University of Temuco. It was a strange bunch, with much of Christian social assistance, together with a formulation of the basic precepts for understanding the world of extreme poverty. The students had to go to the shanty towns of Temuco and relate to a world hidden by the system, and from that experience, to be evaluated.
Marycruz, my wife, was one of his students shaken, and eventually told him not Venturelli to buy the book "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State" co-author of the famous Marx, Friedrich Engels, which were read. Indeed Venturelli lender.
That was more or less in June or July 1973, while David, our eldest, often growing in her womb. Thus it was that the book, which always beats me to read, came to our library in the making.
Two or three months later came the bloody military coup that disgusting fart in history, that right still tries to justify.
A day later, almost ending September Marycruz and my brother, oddly enough also called Omar, in Prat Avenue corner San Martin, are with the spectacle of Omar Venturelli Leonelli, their teacher, hands bound behind his back and guarded by two army guys, just across the square bound Tucapel Regiment.
Coming to our house, in fact our room, I moved Marycruz says we have to hide our books compromising among which was naturally the book of Engels, provided by Omar.
for years and were, hidden in the folds of a door, until we could rescue them, destroying the door that hid, as useless as the dictatorship.
When we did, the image of Omar handcuffed and soldiers targeted by teenagers who might have been his students, surfaced.
This testimony, which we always consider surface suddenly collecting dates and tying ropes, could finally be part of a whole.
Fresia Cea, a former Providence College student from Temuco, Marycruz-like-has come to our home thirty-six years later. Fresia
When making this little piece of history, tearfully claims that Omar Venturelli Leonelli, the husband, the professor still widely expected to return, had broken with family commitment not to lend books.
Omar Venturelli That day was dressed in blue, maybe a corduroy jacket, jeans, a shirt in the same tone. Fresia
so remember leaving his house never to return.
What she did not know, I had no way to know, was a student of her husband, saw him handcuffed and targeted by two army guys following fiscal ordinances Tucapel Regiment of Temuco, and blue dress with the same simplicity with which he attended to classes at the Catholic University of Temuco.
Photo: Marriage Omar Venturelli Leonelli and Fresia Cea Villalobos, October 30, 1970 in Temuco. Fresia Cea Villalobos file. The bride was 21. The groom 28.
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