(*) On 25 July this year, will be 30 years for the murder of 16 year old girl, Maria Belen Sanchez Ojeda, in a demonstration port .
"El Eco de Canarias on Saturday 26 emits a message that touched guts everywhere in these Atlantic islands: " Last night at the clinic of Santa Catalina, where he was interned in ICU , died young Mary Bethlehem " . The Province and responsible for the section of the port, JF Fonte, saved, however, a significant silence on that day did motu proprio or obeying orders from above? Or maybe they were not ready that day and beat them the element of surprise? We do not know " [1] . So the press broke the news the next day Canary Islands have been killed a girl of 16 years, daughter of a port .
Port Workers Light had several months of working class struggle. Improving their conditions of work since the accident was quite high and the threat of privatization of various port companies, were the claims of these workers.
Signing the agreement for the sector in June, endorsed by several companies that peeped a small glimmer of hope, came to nothing with later events. The metropolis adopted a decree, ignoring workers from various ports of the State. The UGT like a true union government as stewards of these measures recalling Franco vertical union.
exposed face of the events, the families of the port creating a board support workers, sitting in the street and lock-in Church of Mount Caramel the Isleta. The July 25, while demonstrating peacefully in Manuel Becerra, Civil Guard strongly ordered the driver of the Alfa Romeo, registration GC-9003-C, continue the march, despite the presence of the protesters. The result was the abuse of the young Mary to Bethlehem was dragged seventy meters from the car. After this event, Civil Guard that brought from Almería to repress the claims, had orders to use force, attacked people , wounding four people , including a port that lost an eye, a can of smoke released by the repressive forces.
The subsequent burial was an example of calm and civility of the working class because there cites. It was a massive burial and meaning, where a worker cried for her daughter and the port, together with the working class in general, cried to his martyr, buried with the Canarian flag: "So the revolutionary Che Guevara are , New Testament believers to Jesus Christ, followers of the romantic ideal of Alfonsina Storni, the American Indians to Tupac Amaru rebels, the survivors John Lennon Rock, Redeemer Spartacism supporters of Rosa Luxemburg, canaries free to Tanausú (...) In the same way as a symbol of virtue and selflessness, Bethlehem Mary lives in the heart of Port de bien [2] .
The labyrinth of memory is often close, especially when the powers that be want to take certain issues into oblivion. From Youth Organization Azarug, want here, encourage the memory of a bloody event, worthy of being remembered .
"I will hand over time, quickly, without giving absolute counts. And I fear, grief. Because life is so beautiful and yet so evil. Are few years these beautiful, young and full of life. They wake me thousands of feelings and desires to live. I'm turning 16, and it seems uncertain. But it is real. I feel young and I would always feel that way. Full of longing, passion, desire of love, sharing with others and to rip up the hate. But life goes unexpectedly. And I want to live. Living my life to the fullest. Every minute, every moment. And mark pages in my heart, because my life is mine, only mine and no one can live it for me " [3] .
RV, Youth Organization Azarug
[1] SANTANA DELGADO, Juan Antonio: María Belén, summer of 80 , Ediciones Tide , Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2000, p. 83.
[2] Opp. Citt., P. 26.
(*) Extracted from the script of the XXXIX Bentejuí Road.
Documentary at the XXV Anniversary of the death of Bethlehem Mary
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