¡Aún tenemos Patria, ciudadanos!

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”.

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.