Hi!
As you can
see, my post has become finally in a very patriotic one….because today I will
like to tell you about The greatest Chilean of all time( for me obviously) …
The
fatherland defender… Manuel Rodriguez!
This Guerrilla
leader born in Santiago on February 27, 1785. He is considered one of founder of independent Chile.
He took a lot of roles like lawyer, politician, soldier and guerrilla leader in the independent process.
In the “ Reconquista” period his work as a
bushwhacker, spy an principal figure of the resistance made of him something
like a myth and a popular legend in everyplace in Chile.In fact He was the
most-wanted man during the rule of the Spanish Governor of Chile.
One of his remembers heroic deeds were his
assaults on Melipilla and
San Fernando that became in a important part of San Martín's strategy to divert
attention away from the "Liberating Army" that entered Chile and
triumphed at the Battle
of Chacabuco.
Sadly he dies betray with a bullet wound on his
back nearly to Til-til while He was moving to Quilota`s jail.
At this time Manuel has become in a very popular
Icon, inspiring poetry and a lot of Folk Literature and Music as “El Aparecido”
a knowing song from Victor Jara inspired in Manuel Rodriguez “ El guerrillero”.
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He is really cute isn`t it? |
Now that I look his biography and I can tell all
the great things he do for his Fatherland, I would really like to met him, and asking a lot of questions,
for example I´d would like to ask him ¿What he thinks that fatherland is? ¿Where
he takes all that power to protect it? I can’t ask him… but anyway all his
heroic deeds make me believe in his person and in the power and solidarity of
human beings.