Hi everybody! I have been missing in the
last time but I´m back! Well, this time I am going to write about a great Chilean: Clotario Blest.
Clotario was a union leader, founder of several organizations, including the “Agrupación Nacional de Empleados Fiscales (ANEF), the Central Única de Trabajadores(CUT) and the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR). He borned November
17, 1899, his parents were Ricardo Blest and Leopoldina Riffo, when Clotario
was a boy, his father died and Leopoldina had to work as a primary school
teacher, growing in the misery.
Him
in his
youth studied teology and entered to Seminario Pontificio Mayor so it
was a
great believer in God, but never had a religious vocation,
so he left the Seminario P. Mayor. Clotario started to social activities when he
met Emilio Recabarren, he was very
worried about the situation in his
country, consciousness created by his childhood and youth in poverty, so he
always tried to raise awareness
and seek solutions, provided by the hand
of God and
religion.
One
of the most important
activities of Clotario, what I said
before, the foundation of ANEF, MIR and CUT, in addition to the foundation of
Comité de los “ Sin casa”, but I think the important thing was the creation and
the fight for a fairer Chile, thought of the
dispossessed, being always
consistent with their ideals and actions.
If
I have the opportunity of ask or tell him something, I don’t know what, I have
a lot of things in my head!!