A Christmas tour. This year I did not think to write anything personal. However, in my mind of poor wanderer (and without enough courage to get out without a penny on the roads) I wanted to do a brief tour of these far away places that I like to see what said of this special day, Christmas, for those parts. Here the result: could surprise the president of the Islamic Republic sent a Christmas message, however, surprise surprise, it does. As part of its text Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said: "We believe that the beloved Jesus Christ will also appear in fulfillment of a promise of all the prophets, and, hand in hand, the Promised One of the nations will bring as a gift all the beauty and goodness for all mankind and for the whole earth, and these days we get another year to that glorious day.
addition to commemorate the nativity of the prophet of friendship and love, Jesus Christ, and to congratulate the arrival of the new Christian year, I pray to God, the Compassionate and Merciful, to bring to everyone, especially the Christians of Iran and the world, happy and healthy and be a year full of blessings, success and love. " For its part, the mood is not the best in Bethlehem, apparently. The Information Office of Chilean-Palestinian says in his note" Christmas under occupation Bethlehem : "Speaking of Christmas is impossible without some reference to Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus. The town is now surrounded by settlements, the wall that divides residents and cut by checkpoints that do not allow free movement. This year, like many others, challenged the closure Bethlehem and the site, as residents try to celebrate Christmas despite the difficulties caused by the illegal practices of Israeli occupation.. It should be a little difficult to have a spirit of joy in a country where, as the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem in message: "Christmas was back in Bethlehem this year, under the same circumstances of death and frustration, with the wall and land barriers and hearts. The "occupation" and deprivation of liberty, on the one hand, fear and insecurity, other, continue. Gaza remains a big prison, a place of death and of internal Palestinian dissension. Even children have been killed. And everyone, including the international community, remains powerless to find the right road to peace and justice. " An interesting account of the Christmas customs in the country does Hispanic Service Radio Bulgaria , limiting , as the behavior that caught my attention more, they eat only vegetables on day 24. ("Chileans would give up our succulent cuts of meat?) Those who understand English well laugh with " Secret Weapon Dresden , or how the Yankees are so paranoid they suspect a Christmas fruitcake as a biological weapon, according to the English text of the Deutsche Welle. In Serbia for its Christmas party expected to mostly Orthodox calendar that having Julian is later than for Catholics in the West. However, the Patriarch Pavle of the Serbian Orthodox Church in his greetings to the Roman Rite Catholics (Latino) wanted "in the new year there is less worry and more peace, less hate more love, less discord and more harmony. ", as noted by the International Radio Serbia . On the other hand comes to Africa the legacy of an idea born in Rome: Christmas lunch community of San Egidio. Fides detailing that "Christmas in Mozambique will be held in 20 cities, with the participation of street children, beggars, lepers, blind, poor families and many prisoners. In Africa poverty emerges with particular strength in prisons, therefore, many African communities in Mozambique, Guinea Conakry, Burkina Faso, not only regularly visit prisoners, but on Christmas day preparing a meal that is for many the only real lunch all year. " However perhaps the news that surprised me most of all was revised originated in England. And, apparently as Zenit points on the island is that "out" What is now wanted is a "Christmas without Jesus ', a Christmas party reduced to pure enjoyment and carefree'" and that "Among the signs denoting this war on Christmas, "The Sun" said that marketing firms are banning Christmas decorations if they offend other faiths, Christmas has been renamed Winter Range, the cards bear the legend "Happy Holidays" instead of 'Merry Christmas', the representations of Christmas are prohibited if the non-Christians find offensive.. " To say the least, strange. Merry Christmas to all who pass through here, that I hope can live in peace and feel the love and hope that gives us at this time. Greetings, SE, LERM. Eduardo Peñailillo B.
He died. 10 December. It was a Sunday more. I woke up late because I slept very late talking and listening to tunes. Anyway, we managed to reach the mass of twelve, he had enough competition, as always. Heat, typical of a Sunday in December, suffocating from early times of the day. The only thing unusual was that My aunt, for the first time able to buy pies at the exit of mass. (The public often sell out quickly) went to lunch at my grandmother's house Guille, as we do a lot of Sundays. The sensation of suffocation was the same every day often feels heat in the house. Lunch, as always, consisted of two plates, and was wearing a TV serial, to spend the time and day. While eating the "second", a call. My grandmother, quietly but not so much, he wondered how my aunt, his daughter, he will come calling at this hour. That call carried the news that the inefficient RED TV was unable to give the time. The call caused that we change the TV. Saying that Augusto Pinochet had died. Apparently, none of the five who were on the table will take the weight issue immediately. Great weight and no later. We saw pictures and heard the words. But there was no big bang, no expression of great emotion. My Aunt Mary went to sleep. Do not know if what he said on Friday: he would take one week after the fact. Me, my mother, my aunt and my grandmother stayed above the table, watching, and talking, but not much. We try to locate my other grandmother, without success. After I know why. had been killed. There was reason to believe that my great-aunt, who in 1973 was a leader in his factory, barely made it home on 11, then spent several days in detention and lost their savings in devaluations, could celebrate. Was happy, but said little. His sister, who inexplicably (ie, there is only one explanation: the grudge against her sister and mentioned) has been more right with age, made few comments. Me and my mother threw some sizes, but said little. And both agree that a lot in our reactions. There was no reason to leave open champagne as some. But not a tear or sorrow for someone who does not deserve. Yes
history and memory. Back home my mother told me something I know. My paternal grandparents, who scoffed at the tyrant's death by telephone, September 11, 1973 they were neighbors to dance outside her house, being supporters of Allende. I imagine, is one of the things I'd like to sentence writing history, that many people did the same. I do not consider why you must leave now to dance in front of someone's house. As the human meanness is not something to be shared. Errors are to overcome, not to imitate them. Understand the smiles of those who were killed during the dictatorship / authoritarian government, the kisses of the parents of Villa Francia Vergara (who responded, beyond the barricades, with memories and movies, and not as the pseudoanarquistas, "leaving shit ", as said in the photoblog of a friend, should burn the slit, as Jeton like these make people cries out people like Pinochet.), but I do not think that there was nothing to celebrate. He died, as all people die, that is not in itself a victory. All that proves is that it was "immortal", as its advocates say signs. Furthermore, why cheer? Today I saw on television, of course, foreign (French TV5) news that we should be ashamed. Ethiopia because of which we remember with shame and derision for their little children starving in Ethiopia today that a trip within the country could take months, just have a railway line, that Ethiopia has managed to condemn their dictator Mengistu , a Marxist, for genocide, killing many of them committed against Eritreans, now as an independent nation, are egged on by their government against Ethiopia. They did, after 10 years, with dirt roads. And here? Mr. You're wrong Libedinsky, which I think is respectable, when he says that the Chilean judiciary has done everything he could. The Ethiopian Federal High Court today, in a wise act of life, just to wipe out his words. not deserve pity. "Too bad for someone who had everything, who took it? One of the teachers to take days off my bed waiting for surgery for a tumor. This individual had an ambulance and a hospital bed secured for what happened. In the balance, my teacher deserves more care from a doctor, in my opinion. When he was arrested, had lawyers, the best lawyer in this country in reality (in terms purely legal). Without doing anything were better than those who live under bridges, which they harvest carrots in winter nights, that pirquineros that most of this nation. What would have you pity? No, no. not ask for his soul. I refer here to a point that I find painful. Is that I am deeply disappointed by the reaction of the church to which I ascribe, the Catholic Church, with these episodes. Not because I have been masses and responses to him, because that is fit for every Catholic in the hour of death, from which you shot to a baby dies day. But in other words, unnecessary. The Cardinal Archbishop of Santiago, Francisco Javier Errazuriz, has stated that "[Pinochet] did not hesitate to take command of the Nation" and "At this time we thank God all the qualities that gave him and all the good made to our country "seems little short of treason to the memory of their ancestors and Raúl Silva Henríquez Juan Francisco Fresno. For although at the time the Cardinal Silva Henríquez gave limited support for the coup, also denounced the aspects that seemed illegitimate, in the light of what we know now we can not say that Pinochet "meaning duty." He was an opportunist, a survivor, a guy who said "if I do not others will over me. "I do not think it has moved a patriotic conscience. And know why we should thank him, because their ancestors already mentioned publicly denounced all the harm caused by their government, and that was not present in the words of the ecclesiastical authority Santiago. If there was going to mention this edge, do not see why mention the other. And of course the duty could be waived. On the other side of the Church, the same who spoke of "culture of death" during his tenure, I did not read any reaction that seems to me concerning it, except perhaps that of the former Vicar for Workers, Archbishop Baeza. The most notable of the reactions of the Church had to come from ... Paraguay. And the bishop Melanio Medina "felt that the former dictator Augusto Pinochet, died Sunday, will be 'final verdict of God" by not responding in life for the crimes committed under his regime. " (Radio Cooperativa, 11/12/2006). As a believer, and with him as a believer in the same faith, reassures me that certainty, it is known that is not God who condemns, but the men, and "the penitent is the kingdom of heaven", but Heaven will open in joy for someone who, at least as far as we know, was never able to say "sorry" or having "a gesture of greatness" gesture, as I remembered my grandfather today, saved the figure of O ' Higgins posterity, as he was able to say "here's my heart" and leave. Pinochet remained in power because Merino, and Strange Matthei not supported. Da
to see paradoxes and unexplained reactions that fact, one of which is to Matthei. May go down in history as the man who said "I have clearly won the No, but we are calm," now comes up with branding the same special powers wanted him to sign a "giant". I believe that this really has dementia, but do not know, especially since agreed to stay in command of the Air Force when Leigh, who may have been very fascist but life remained in a clear way, in my opinion, was "thrown" by Pinochet. As an aside I support Belisario Velasco, criticized by many things, but in this case the only guy with guts (except perhaps the Minister Blanlot ... Well, in this case, Bachelet was hands tied, we know) of this government, for telling the truth, Pinochet is a hero, El Salvador is not the country, but not Satan incarnate. It is what it is, a dictator, a tyrant, and a creature of history and a society that does not assume to have given space. (Ravinet can get his "bad taste" where they fit, what theirs is, as said Senator Ruiz Esquide worthy "unacceptable.") For a man as he was not born by choice, but to an open opportunity. Open, as stated today "The Nation", which I think has had a great reaction both Monday and Tuesday editions, because at the time no one (not right, neither left nor Dece, or people. I do two possible exceptions, which are what I know: Carlos Prats and Raul Silva Henriquez) was too committed to democracy, justice, respect for others ... As the desire to "make revolution" or "end of Marxism" was above all. Even before the killing. And Pinochet and his collaborators, and those who incited violence the side they are, know and know that "Thou shalt not kill." The hands are stained with blood in the case of many, and few have heard the word that yes there was a man who many criticize him for "turned coat" or "coup", but acknowledged that at least his error, as is the blunders during the funeral: Patricio Aylwin Azocar. Life, who believe God is wiser than all of us ... Pinochet died failed, despite the cheers of his supporters. In his mind must have been a death like that of Franco, which I doubt will someday destroy the Valley of the Fallen. This is going to have to stay in a jar, in a house, maybe one day someone will steal or sell. A Franco (remember also that the English government chose to oust Pinochet to receive the other senior figures) was fired dignitaries from across Europe. In this, his followers of operetta and the army, which did more than fulfill a duty that seems like a "horn" for this institution. Ignored also die without much pain or great glory, for tomorrow the country will jump with Colo Colo, that if he wins give way to a white country on Thursday, or a general depression, but cleared her news of the minds, and then Christmas New Year, fireworks, summer and asses live from the beaches, and life will go. No one will die or the world will end with his death. Life ... Paradoxically, for the same day that "kicked the bucket" I received word that I have a sister who was born a helpless little person who has my same first name. And I hope that, even though not born under the best omens, is a sign of hope. Of hope that things are different. For I can not but agree, looking and living in this country, what was said by the writer Dario Oses yesterday in "The Nation" that "the long night of general will expand on our homeland." Not recognized as we gave space his coat. Could do it again. However, I leave you with a glimmer of hope. Died. Finally had to happen. May his name and deeds we are in memory only to be associated with two words: Never again. Greetings, SE, LERM. Eduardo Peñailillo B.
