In the early hours of Sunday, February 20, the senator and former Minister of Labor and the Interior, Eduardo Bonomi, died of cardiac arrest. He was 73 years old and his death generated anguish in all political sectors beyond political differences.
In the last hours, former president José Mujica recalled that Bonomi was one of those people who put their whole lives, with successes or errors, at the service of something they think and dream of. “They give your life a cause.”
I add that the former senator and former minister “represents that capital that societies collectively create, to advance on their erratic path with ups and downs, which were those militants who fought for independence, who all succumbed, who were not understood, and so on. Bonomi is irreplaceable.”
“Bonomi was always a stubborn partner in discussions and temperament, which made me always choose paths full of thorns,” he said.
Mujica sentenced: “There are few who are left from the old guard. Forever with you, comrade!”.
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For his part, the president of the Broad Front, Fernando Pereira, said that “El Bicho” Bonomi was a parliamentarian, Minister of Labor, Minister of the Interior, a political prisoner throughout the dictatorship, a social fighter, but above all a “great companion.”
“I was lucky enough to share several stages of life with him, among others when he became Minister of Labor and had the responsibility of launching collective bargaining, freedom of association and leveling the balance of labor relations,” he recalled. former union leader.
He assured that, without a doubt, he was up to the task. “We share a deep work representing Uruguay in ILO Conferences. In one of those conferences we talked a lot about the value of freedom and the theater, he began to talk to me about the Roman theater with amazing depth and the importance of it in incredibly minute detail”.
“I was very surprised and when I asked him why he knew so much, he replied very calmly that when he was in prison every now and then they let him in a book and he had asked his mother to bring him the largest possible book. As he found several volumes on the subject, he took them with him and read them all several times, to move his head and be lucid”, he confided.
He stressed that most of the time, even in the worst conditions, the theater helps us live freedom. “A while ago Pacha Sánchez called me to tell me about Bicho, and it broke my soul, only he knows everything he wanted. After some tears, I decided that in a few days I will write about Bonomi’s successes, to vindicate the partner, his actions and decisions for the country, “said Pererira.
The president of the FA stated that “there are many things that move when a teammate leaves us. Let’s try to transform that pain into rebellion to continue building a productive country with social justice. Don’t lose joy or the ability to dream. Up Dear Bug”.
