“Where are the wilsonistas of the National Party, who can’t be seen?” asked Rosencof and then pointed out as a paradoxical fact that: “even Julio María Sanguinetti is a Herrerista.”
“These have nothing to do with other blacksmiths I knew, who were an example like old Enrique Erro, who later ended up militating in our ranks (Frente Amplio) and was one of the recipients of the bullets that riddled Zelmar Michelini, al” Toba” Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, Rosario Barredo, and William Whitelaw in Argentina”, he remarked.
Rosencof highlighted that Erro (who was a senator of the Broad Front) was a transparent and lucid person; and he recalled that Luis Alberto de Herrera in his will ends by pointing to him as “dear son.” He added that, on the other hand, what he says about Wilson Elso Goñi is “be careful with that fat boy who goes to Banco República, puts wheels on it and takes it home.”
“So there is everything in the house, there; and ‘Pepe’ José Mujica was born in a Herrerista club too,” he recalled.
The writer stressed that in this unprecedented national context “there are things that are very nice, very encouraging”, and paraphrasing.
“The left-handed bar, the warrior bar, the militant bar has returned to the neighborhood; we are in the neighborhoods, as always, because the media is at the service of the cabinet, except in exceptional cases that confirm the general rule. We, from the left, always had a low presence of the press, except in some very specific times through La República or El Popular”, he indicated.
there is an order
“Currently, the great hegemonic media in our country are instrumented. You grab the news and if Luis Lacalle is cutting a tape, anywhere in the country all open television channels are online broadcasting the same thing. That is planned, it is organized, there is an order, ”he assured.
Rosencof described as a “bandit to put a press conference where it does not belong.”
After evoking some “negotiations” of the ’90s, which involved the “current ruling party” and other more current and at least confusing episodes linked to State land, he recalled that “they always resisted the 8-hour Law for the rural laborer, and so much so that the president, being a legislator, voted against it. ‘We do not understand the relationship between the owner of the field and the rural worker,’ ” he quoted.
The former hostage of the dictatorship recalled that in the ’50s and ’60s he was with the rice growers, with the cane growers, they were not paid with money: “in the times when it was proclaimed ‘like Uruguay there is no’ or that we were ‘the Swiss from America’ the seasonal peons were paid with cardboard cards, it’s not paco!”.
He added: “Half a century later we returned to the streets, ours are the murals, the posters, it is the door to door, we talk to the people, (…) we are part of all that and we are fighting it (…) and the we will keep fighting. They, with their gadgets that since they comb their hair well and their hair falls out and look intelligently at the press, and the press gets on the car, because someone else is driving it, that chorus is not produced spontaneously, it is produced by fingered, it occurs because there is a baton”.
Rosencof said that “you turn on a channel and although it is a report on the fly because it is cutting a tape in some shed, in some toilet, all the channels appear at the same time; that is instrumented, that is not a coincidence, it is a very fine advertising agency”.
Instead, he lamented, that there is no statesman, as the National Party traditionally had on its entire front: in Wilsonismo, in Herrerismo, level people, Herrera himself, please! But here you find that suddenly they even have people who croak at you in a puddle every day, ”he said ironically.
The former Tupamaro leader said: “Then someone with a bit of good sense doesn’t stop it, because at the end of the day the country is today in two halves and those two halves have to understand each other; in the first place they have to be respected, that is to say that they do not come in to cluck so much and it is better that they lay the egg”, he claimed to the ruling party.
What has happened in these years in Uruguay is that “two images of the country are fighting, it is as simple as that, that of the class struggle and the confrontation of classes and the oligarchs and the people, that they bastardized everything they wanted in the headlines and in the channels, that’s true, don’t fuck with me; in (the biblical book of the Apostles) ‘Acts’ of the first Christians, the first book that appears in the New Testament after the Gospels, begins by saying ‘the first Christians had everything in common, and each one withdrew according to his needs’ , means that in those days equal opportunities, food, equal housing were already conceived; we fight for that, they are for the accumulation”.
