One day Wilson Ferreira was asked if he felt betrayed, since at that time some leaders and people very close to him had sold themselves out to the military regime in power since June 1973.
Wilson replied “the traitors who betrayed me will end up betraying others, because they do not betray me but their consciences even though they are happy for a while now”
Wilson was referring to none other than his own Personal Secretary until 1976, Juan Carlos Paysee, who was later made Mayor of Montevideo for a year by the dictatorship, as well as Aparicio Méndez, who presented as a militant of the Movement for the Homeland and Wilson’s lawyer, a challenged allegation about electoral fraud in the 1971 elections, but then the dictatorship bought him and made him president of the Republic as a dictator.
And Wilson was right.
Wilson returned and on March 15, like today but 35 years ago in 1988, he left for eternity, but today we continue to remember him with the feeling of not betraying our ideals and preaching with his example and his affection to always put URUGUAY ABOVE OF EVERYTHING.
The best way to honor Wilson Ferreira is not betraying his ideals that will always be remembered.
Message from Ricardo Planchón on his Facebook social network
