Walter Salles: Regarding: I'm still here

I'm still here

Where are they taking me? I can't pretend not to notice. I knew this could happen at any moment. What did I do? I helped my comrades, yes. But I never grabbed... nor would I grab a gun. It's not in my nature. But what does that matter? I thought I was protecting Eunice without telling her anything. But now I see that it was a mistake, that we should have gone outside. We didn't understand the real risk our lives were running.
These people threaten me that if I don't confess they will eliminate my family. They have Eunice, here they show me her photo in prison. And my daughter, crying in desperation. What sons of bitches! And I can't do anything. I don't know anything about the weapons, the Swiss ambassador, the guerrillas' plans. I really don't know. We help them with nonsense, letters, money, some transfers, some hiding places. But these people come to destroy us. They take over the state to destroy it and to destroy us. They do it in a dictatorship as they will do in a democracy, with other weapons, with other violence, with other hatreds. I know that they are going to annihilate me, that they are going to make me disappear, that is how they spread terror. So that no one opposes, that everyone acts as if nothing is happening. Terror so that no one defends the poor, the retired, the workers, the children, the poor. Terror to impose alienated individualism, the naturalization of hatred, the unreasonableness of violence against the oppressed.
It is too late, I will give my life. I can no longer bear that they want to kill my wife, my five children, my companions. With my death I do not know if they will be saved. I know that Eunice and my children will fight, always with joy and with the smile of hope. I know that my death will not be in vain. That they too will give their lives for the truth. That sooner or later there will be light, memory, truth, justice.

Thanks to Walter Salles, his idea and his team.
Thanks to the cinema.
Let's see and reflect on this history, our history, in every school, in every classroom and in every home.

Adrian Baccaro President SIGnis Argentina