Emilio Lledó says that we’re reminiscence and we are living from that reminiscence. The previous day, Ángeles Flórez Peón passed on to the great beyond on the age of 105, and in this instance I can’t discover a higher word to confirm that she is going to proceed to live to tell the tale in her reminiscence.
Almost definitely, Ángeles would have lived a bland private tale and as of late I’d now not be scripting this obituary. The adaptation is that, right through her 105 years, her lifestyles takes position in a ancient duration of intense feelings, the place joys, hopes and nice illusions happen, the outbreak of battle, repression, huge struggling, hardship and exile. Convulsive moments by which she all the time maintains her convictions and her everlasting integrity.
It used to be born in a mining municipality with a robust socialist dedication (San Martín del Rey Aurelio). As a kid she parades hand in hand together with her mom to have a good time, with pleasure, hope and need for freedom, the arriving of the 2d Republic.
The circle of relatives suffers huge trauma from the homicide, with out trial, of his brother within the repression of the Revolution of 1934, which motivated the switch of the circle of relatives to where the place “the martyrs of Carbayín” “fell.” Joins the Socialist Early life and there starts his eventful private and political lifestyles. That is the place Maricuela used to be born.
Maricuela used to be the nature that Ángeles performed within the play Up with the deficient of the sector. However, simply when it used to be going to be carried out, the coup d’état came about and the start of the Civil Warfare.
He joins the military to protect the Republic. He saves his lifestyles due to the assistance of Quintín, a boyfriend from his adolescence, who would finally end up shot. She is arrested and admitted to the Oviedo jail and later transferred to the Saturrarán jail. In jail, from her cellular, she listened to how fellow prisoners had been taken out to be shot. That is why she confident:
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“What actually assists in keeping me alive and lively is that need to keep in mind all the ones ladies who had been tortured, murdered with out trial and erased from historical past.” “With out reminiscence we’re not anything.”
He would possibly not have a greater lifestyles in jail: horrible prerequisites, bad, humiliating remedy, inhuman punishments. However Maricuela does now not deny and when she leaves the jail she marries Chano, her spouse and father of her kids. Each had been lively underground within the years of biggest persecution and repression. Confronted with the approaching possibility of arrest, first her husband is going into exile and later, together with her daughter, with the braveness that characterised her, she dangers a perilous clandestine travel to France with the woman in her palms. . In exile she continues to militate and, after the demise of her husband, she returns to Asturias.
He’s actively lively and writes two books the place he tells his whole tale. No simply motive is overseas to him. At greater than 90 years outdated, she participated within the “freedom educate”, within the Satisfaction parade, within the protection of pensions. He dies fearful about the upward thrust of fascism. But when one needed to spotlight his major pastime it will be, indubitably, the will of teenage within the struggle for rights and freedoms. She used to be honorary president of the Socialist Early life of Asturias.
In spite of the whole lot, he frequently repeats: “I do not know why you give me such a lot of tributes and recognitions. I do not deserve them, I did not do anything else particular”.
Exactly, what makes his lifestyles peculiar used to be his unreserved involvement in each second and circumstance. He didn’t pass over any alternative to protect his beliefs of social justice, freedoms and employee emancipation, as he appreciated to mention.
Thanks, Ángeles, in your dedication, coherence, fortitude. For giving us that instance of militancy in beliefs, for this type of beneficiant lifestyles.
Maricuela will proceed to live to tell the tale in our recollections.
Luisa Carcedo She is a former Minister of Well being, State Counselor and president of the Pablo Iglesias Basis.
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