Remembering Daniel Palma Robledo: A Family’s Loss in the Chilean Dictatorship

2023-09-12 23:32:31

A sensitive family loss was shared by the national actress Leonor Varela, regarding the 50th anniversary of the Coup d’état: her grandfather was one of the thousands of people tortured, murdered and disappeared during the dictatorship.

Is about Daniel Palma Robledoclose to the Communist Party, who was arrested by DINA agents and disappeared on August 4, 1976. He was 60 years old, married and father of five children.

“This is my grandfather, who I only knew when my memory did not store images or smells to which I now had access. “He was taken to Villa Grimaldi, and then to the Simón Bolívar extermination barracks to be savagely tortured, murdered and made to disappear,” Leonor said in a publication by Instagram.

“What I do remember is my grandmother’s relentless struggle with the photo that she put on her chest to go to demonstrate, as well as the silence that surrounded the absence of the ‘old man’. Because in my house, since exile, this was not talked about. Until now,” added the 50-year-old model.

“Tears flowed”

The protagonist of Cleopatranow living in the United States, commented that just a few weeks ago, almost half a century later, her family obtained justice for her grandfather’s crime.

“Less than 2 months ago, justice was finally done, and with the sentencing of the guilty the ghosts came out of the closet, tears flowed and the hands with which we support ourselves opened,” he said. Leonor.

“50 years later I visualize a Chile firmly united in the inalienable values ​​that one day we lost: democracy and human rights,” the interpreter concluded.

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