“We are summoned by the political prisoners and the disappeared of this fateful day, but much earlier also others who died in the original peoples, because we the original peoples are made of memory.” This is how Elisa Loncon began saying, from the National Stadium, in her first commemoration on September 11 as president of the Constitutional Convention.
“The avenues are opening, the roads are being opened, and the river is also being cleaned,” Loncon quoted Allende in a speech in which he also pointed to the defense of the environment, “because without Mother Earth we do not continue to live. And that’s memory too.”
In that sense, he sent a greeting “to the prisoners of the revolt, to the Mapuche political prisoners. To all of them a greeting of strength and hope, with gratitude for their struggles, because they defended them and they are in our hearts. We ask for justice for them,” he said.
The helmsman of the Convention affirmed that, on the occasion of the memory, “we are here to demand justice, so that our rights are never violated again, and so that dictatorships never return because together we build a path of dignity.”
