Roberto Parada (September 15, 1909, Concepción, Chile â€" November
20, 1986, Moscow, USSR) was a Chilean actor, theater director and
teacher with a long career of more than 50 years on the stage, and
also was a standout militant communist. Married to the actress and
deputy of the Communist Party of Chile (1965-1969) and the Party for
Democracy (1990-1994), MarÃa Maluenda. They had two children, Maria
Soledad and the sociologist Jose Manuel, who while working for the
Vicariate of Solidarity, assassinated by agents of the DICOMCAR
(Directorate of Communications of Carabineros), repressive organ of
the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.He also played the role of Pablo
Neruda in the film Ardiente Paciencia, literary work of Antonio
Skármeta, who also participated in the making of the film as a
director and screenwriter. The film was shot in 1983, and also
featured the performances of Ã"scar Castro RamÃrez and Marcela
Osorio.While he was working on the work Primavera with a broken
corner, adaptation of the homonymous work of Mario Benedetti, his son,
José Manuel, was kidnapped and later murdered in the so-called "Caso
Degollados", together with Manuel Guerrero (leader of the AGECH -
Association of Teachers of Chile) and Santiago Nattino. José Manuel
and Manuel Guerrero were kidnapped at the doors of the Latin American
Integration College, on the morning of March 29, 1985. The next day,
on the road to Quilicura, both found beheaded with Santiago Nattino,
who had been kidnapped on March, 28. Four months later, judge José
Canovas Robles established that an intelligence operative group of the
Carabineros had executed the kidnappings, torture and subsequent
assassination of the communist leaders.In May 1986, he suffered a
thrombosis. The political persecution led him to leave the country
with his wife, heading to Buenos Aires and then to Moscow, where he
died on November 20, 1986.
20, 1986, Moscow, USSR) was a Chilean actor, theater director and
teacher with a long career of more than 50 years on the stage, and
also was a standout militant communist. Married to the actress and
deputy of the Communist Party of Chile (1965-1969) and the Party for
Democracy (1990-1994), MarÃa Maluenda. They had two children, Maria
Soledad and the sociologist Jose Manuel, who while working for the
Vicariate of Solidarity, assassinated by agents of the DICOMCAR
(Directorate of Communications of Carabineros), repressive organ of
the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.He also played the role of Pablo
Neruda in the film Ardiente Paciencia, literary work of Antonio
Skármeta, who also participated in the making of the film as a
director and screenwriter. The film was shot in 1983, and also
featured the performances of Ã"scar Castro RamÃrez and Marcela
Osorio.While he was working on the work Primavera with a broken
corner, adaptation of the homonymous work of Mario Benedetti, his son,
José Manuel, was kidnapped and later murdered in the so-called "Caso
Degollados", together with Manuel Guerrero (leader of the AGECH -
Association of Teachers of Chile) and Santiago Nattino. José Manuel
and Manuel Guerrero were kidnapped at the doors of the Latin American
Integration College, on the morning of March 29, 1985. The next day,
on the road to Quilicura, both found beheaded with Santiago Nattino,
who had been kidnapped on March, 28. Four months later, judge José
Canovas Robles established that an intelligence operative group of the
Carabineros had executed the kidnappings, torture and subsequent
assassination of the communist leaders.In May 1986, he suffered a
thrombosis. The political persecution led him to leave the country
with his wife, heading to Buenos Aires and then to Moscow, where he
died on November 20, 1986.
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