Liber Maple - A symbolic martyr
On August 14, 1968, 41 years ago today, the predictadura pachequista took its first victim.
Liber Arce, a 28 year old college student activist in the Young Communist League, died as a result of injuries sustained by police bullets in the vicinity of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, where two days earlier had been a student mobilization against repressive escalation government, the incident took place in the General Prim Street, now called Liber Arce in tribute to the first student martyr.
President Jorge Pacheco Areco - a former deputy dark red with a history of fighter, who held the presidency thanks to the heart attack that caused the death of General Gestido - premiered his government in December 1967, with a foreshadowing of what would be his leadership of the Executive: a decree dated December 12 morning closed the socialist weekly Epoca and Sun, and declared illegal and dissolved the Socialist Party, the Uruguayan Anarchist Federation, the Oriental Revolutionary Movement, the Popular Action Movement Uruguay and the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria.
In June the following year (1968) the government - which had already shown his authoritarian - decreed emergency security measures, exceptional regime was however constant their actions. Under this constitutional provision, Pacheco Areco boosted its economic program that tended to benefit the ruling classes (his cabinet was composed of men representing the banking, big business, industry and agro-export sector) to the detriment of employees. In anticipation of resistance that would generate economic policy, was that security measures implemented so as to allow the government to unleash an unprecedented repression against the popular movement. It was then that the press censorship and closure of newspapers began to be commonplace.
That was particularly harsh repression against the two foci emblematic of the resistance: the student organizations (FEUU and FES) and the CNT, under the classical slogan "workers and students, united and forward," faced with courage the government's authoritarian excesses. Because as well as ordered the freezing of wages, attacking the trade union, a bank is militarized and officials, while the University was strangled economically and autonomy threatened.
In this context the government's response to complaints was the ominous presence of police forces suppressed the rebellion with increasing ferocity: saber, gas and clubs were the only language of government.
The only language until he joined the repressive forces of firearms, with that started the orgy of blood and the state terrorism that lasted until the mid-eighties. After Liber Arce, next month would come and murder of Hugo de los Santos and Susana Pinto, and in subsequent years, the Heber Nieto, Julio Spósito, Joaquín Klüver et al.
Liber Arce's funeral turned into a referendum against the government. From the central building of the University - where he had been veiled - left a crowd estimated at 200 thousand people accompanied the procession heartbroken but firm and fearless in that gray afternoon in which Uruguay had been shaken by the fact - hitherto unpublished - the death of a student on the street. Confess
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Liber Maple - A symbolic martyr
On August 14, 1968, 41 years ago today, the predictadura pachequista took its first victim.
Liber Arce, a 28 year old college student activist in the Young Communist League, died as a result of injuries sustained by police bullets in the vicinity of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, where two days earlier had been a student mobilization against repressive escalation government, the incident took place in the General Prim Street, now called Liber Arce in tribute to the first student martyr.
President Jorge Pacheco Areco - a former deputy dark red with a history of fighter, who held the presidency thanks to the heart attack that caused the death of General Gestido - premiered his government in December 1967, with a foreshadowing of what would be his leadership of the Executive: a decree dated December 12 morning closed the socialist weekly Epoca and Sun, and declared illegal and dissolved the Socialist Party, the Uruguayan Anarchist Federation, the Oriental Revolutionary Movement, the Popular Action Movement Uruguay and the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria.
In June the following year (1968) the government - which had already shown his authoritarian - decreed emergency security measures, exceptional regime was however constant their actions. Under this constitutional provision, Pacheco Areco boosted its economic program that tended to benefit the ruling classes (his cabinet was composed of men representing the banking, big business, industry and agro-export sector) to the detriment of employees. In anticipation of resistance that would generate economic policy, was that security measures implemented so as to allow the government to unleash an unprecedented repression against the popular movement. It was then that the press censorship and closure of newspapers began to be commonplace.
That was particularly harsh repression against the two foci emblematic of the resistance: the student organizations (FEUU and FES) and the CNT, under the classical slogan "workers and students, united and forward," faced with courage the government's authoritarian excesses. Because as well as ordered the freezing of wages, attacking the trade union, a bank is militarized and officials, while the University was strangled economically and autonomy threatened.
In this context the government's response to complaints was the ominous presence of police forces suppressed the rebellion with increasing ferocity: saber, gas and clubs were the only language of government.
The only language until he joined the repressive forces of firearms, with that started the orgy of blood and the state terrorism that lasted until the mid-eighties. After Liber Arce, next month would come and murder of Hugo de los Santos and Susana Pinto, and in subsequent years, the Heber Nieto, Julio Spósito, Joaquín Klüver et al.
Liber Arce's funeral turned into a referendum against the government. From the central building of the University - where he had been veiled - left a crowd estimated at 200 thousand people accompanied the procession heartbroken but firm and fearless in that gray afternoon in which Uruguay had been shaken by the fact - hitherto unpublished - the death of a student on the street. Confess
On August 14, 1968, 41 years ago today, the predictadura pachequista took its first victim.
Liber Arce, a 28 year old college student activist in the Young Communist League, died as a result of injuries sustained by police bullets in the vicinity of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, where two days earlier had been a student mobilization against repressive escalation government, the incident took place in the General Prim Street, now called Liber Arce in tribute to the first student martyr.
President Jorge Pacheco Areco - a former deputy dark red with a history of fighter, who held the presidency thanks to the heart attack that caused the death of General Gestido - premiered his government in December 1967, with a foreshadowing of what would be his leadership of the Executive: a decree dated December 12 morning closed the socialist weekly Epoca and Sun, and declared illegal and dissolved the Socialist Party, the Uruguayan Anarchist Federation, the Oriental Revolutionary Movement, the Popular Action Movement Uruguay and the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria.
In June the following year (1968) the government - which had already shown his authoritarian - decreed emergency security measures, exceptional regime was however constant their actions. Under this constitutional provision, Pacheco Areco boosted its economic program that tended to benefit the ruling classes (his cabinet was composed of men representing the banking, big business, industry and agro-export sector) to the detriment of employees. In anticipation of resistance that would generate economic policy, was that security measures implemented so as to allow the government to unleash an unprecedented repression against the popular movement. It was then that the press censorship and closure of newspapers began to be commonplace.
That was particularly harsh repression against the two foci emblematic of the resistance: the student organizations (FEUU and FES) and the CNT, under the classical slogan "workers and students, united and forward," faced with courage the government's authoritarian excesses. Because as well as ordered the freezing of wages, attacking the trade union, a bank is militarized and officials, while the University was strangled economically and autonomy threatened.
In this context the government's response to complaints was the ominous presence of police forces suppressed the rebellion with increasing ferocity: saber, gas and clubs were the only language of government.
The only language until he joined the repressive forces of firearms, with that started the orgy of blood and the state terrorism that lasted until the mid-eighties. After Liber Arce, next month would come and murder of Hugo de los Santos and Susana Pinto, and in subsequent years, the Heber Nieto, Julio Spósito, Joaquín Klüver et al.
Liber Arce's funeral turned into a referendum against the government. From the central building of the University - where he had been veiled - left a crowd estimated at 200 thousand people accompanied the procession heartbroken but firm and fearless in that gray afternoon in which Uruguay had been shaken by the fact - hitherto unpublished - the death of a student on the street. Confess
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