{"id":56075,"date":"2023-05-18T16:27:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T23:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/?p=56075"},"modified":"2023-06-06T15:00:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:00:37","slug":"the-devils-advocate-column-fifty-years-is-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/the-devils-advocate-column-fifty-years-is-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Devil\u2019s Advocate column: Fifty years is nothing!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201c<em>Return, with a withered forehead,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>the snowflakes of time gave me silvery temples!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em> To feel that life is but a short breath,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>that 20 years is nothing!&#8230;\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cVolver\u201d (Return), A tango. By Carlos Gardel &amp; Alfredo Lepera<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I grew up in the South of the American continent. \u201cVolver\u201d (Return) a tango sung by the famous Argentinian crooner Carlos Gardel, accompanied me more than the other \u201cVolver, Volver,\u201d of the also iconic Mexican singer Vicente Fern\u00e1ndez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My parents sang that tango all the time. They did it very well. Since I was a little boy, I heard that \u201c20 years is nothing!\u201d and the phrase twirled inside my brain. How could that be true? \u201cHow can it be that 20 years is nothing?\u201d I asked myself. My question made sense. At 8 years of age, life seems infinite. If we are lucky, life will regale us with a countless myriad of emotions and places to discover. 20 years, when you are a child, is a long space. An eternity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we go on living, new experiences regale us with new perspectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sept. 11 of this year 2023 will mark 50 years since the Military Coup in Chile. 50 years!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It truly seems an eternity. Today, I can sing the verses of Gardel\u2019s \u201cVolver\u201d and really feel that 20 years is nothing. Especially if we sing the remembrances of that fateful Sept. 11. Alive, still burning in our brains. \u201cOur little Sept. 11,\u201d many Chileans say, with more than a bit of irony, comparing it to \u201cthe Other Sept. 11,\u201d the one that occurred in the USA in 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All over the world, Chileans and people from all nations prepare to commemorate that \u201cLittle Sept. 11,\u201d which ushered 17 years of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Today, that dictatorship has been replaced by a fragile and puzzling democracy, not as representative as it could be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From Europe, a Chilean exile asked me to write about \u201ca thing\u201d which I hid when the military Coup happened. Something which I simply could not abandon. Books, music, photos, weapons?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, I hid things! I believe that many of us, people forced to disguise, rapidly and radically, whichever we think or are because Death hovers all around us, still might take the time to safeguard a significant something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Carlos_11-COLOR_web.jpg?resize=794%2C794&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Illustration of the images of Salvador Allende, two hands holding in support, and a soldier with a weapon integrated with the Chilean flag. \nIllustration: Bruno Ferreira\" class=\"wp-image-56077\" width=\"794\" height=\"794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Carlos_11-COLOR_web.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Carlos_11-COLOR_web.jpg?resize=250%2C250&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Carlos_11-COLOR_web.jpg?resize=480%2C480&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Carlos_11-COLOR_web.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Carlos_11-COLOR_web.jpg?resize=800%2C800&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Carlos_11-COLOR_web.jpg?resize=400%2C400&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Carlos_11-COLOR_web.jpg?resize=200%2C200&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Illustration: Bruno Ferreira<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Before any mentions of objects, I think that we must first remember people, those human beings who also had to hide. Or disguise. Because they had to leave the country, or because they chose to keep on fighting in Chile in a militant secrecy\u2026or simply to survive the untied fascism. Fascism capable of killing anyone for the mere sin of having a beard, or long hair, or because they might possess \u201ca dangerous book.\u201d A book on \u201cThe Art of Cubism\u201d (CUBA!), long hair, a beard, or \u201ca foreign accent\u201d, caused the death of many people. I know, personally, of a few examples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Sept. 11,<sup> <\/sup>&nbsp;1973 happened I was in my mid-twenties and living in Chile. At that fateful time, I discovered how precarious was the situation for those of us who defended the government of Salvador Allende.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the second night of the military-mandated curfew, when the time to stay off the streets was getting close and death was the likely penalty for wandering after 10 p.m., various persons knocked on the door of my house. That night \u2014 and for straight 3 weeks \u2014 many young leftists, men and women, some of them well-known leaders in their respective parties, came to my house for temporary asylum. I never learned how \u201cthe word\u201d was spread that I was a trustworthy \u201chelper.\u201d Three weeks later, for reasons that I also ignored, the knocks on my door ceased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A great reason for the problems that the Left has had (and keeps on having), not just in Chile but worldwide, is the lack of mutual trust, the absence of open communication, and sectarianism. During those three weeks after Sept. 11., when my house was mysteriously designated \u201ca safety house,\u201d extremely compelling conversations took place. My temporary guests engaged each other eagerly. Those exchanges should have happened earlier and more often. They are still necessary. In the precarious safety of that 1973 house, the passionate arguments happened <em>sotto voce: <\/em>the neighbor \u2014 a retired Army colonel \u2014 supported the new regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am sorry to say that some of those friends who came to briefly hide in my house, later lost their lives. Some were cruelly murdered, and others fought until the bitter end, trapped in very unequal confrontations with the military and police forces of the dictator Augusto Pinochet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When \u201cThe Coup\u201d took place we learned right away that saving a life is more important than saving anything. Houses, cars, books, everything was abandoned with neither doubt nor repentance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless, I did not only hide people. I also helped to hide books, paintings and even weapons. In this last category, I recall a night when one of the members of our dance\/theater group came to my house with her elderly mother. They wanted to hide some old weapons, two pistols, used in the Spanish Civil War of 1936. That family of exiled \u201cRepublicanos,\u201d losers of the war, had treasured those pistols for many years. Although already useless, they were beloved relics from another event that had forced people to abandon everything, except life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While burying those weapons, we felt more sadness than fear. We experienced a deeply felt \u201cFarewell to Arms,\u201d like the title of the book by Ernest Hemingway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of us were able to survive and restart our lives \u2014 inside or outside of Chile. 50 years after that terrible date, as we remember those cruel events, the lesson remains clear: nothing is worth more than life itself!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Dedicated to the memory of Bautista, Alejandro and Carmen, who passed through that safety house)<em> By Carlos Bar\u00f3n, for \u201cEl Tecolote\u201d. 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