Ex Prisioneros Políticos de Chile (Part II)

Okay, here's the good stuff that you are all waiting for: pictures. The man, Daniel L., who works for the Camara de Diputados (this is the Chilean equivalent of the US House of Representatives) and more specifically for Diputado Alejandro Sule Fernandez (Dad: on the left menu on the "Camara" page click on "Diputados" then "Lista Completa" and scroll to his name "Sule"), with whom I have an interview tomorrow morning.

Here is a photo of Diputado Sule speaking to the group. To his left is Tucapel Jimenez, the head of the Committee on Human Rights in the government. To his right are the directors of the group. The woman, Nelly, is the one who invited me to her house in Osorno (look it up on a map):


And then, here's a photo you will enjoy because you can see me listening attentive in a corner. I blend in nicely with the rest of them, don't you think? The woman to the right of me in the photo would not stop yelling out during the presentations, but she was quite sweet and explained to me who all the different people are. The man with the patterned fleece (in the middle with the red shirt) gave me his business card in case I wanted to talk to anyone about derechos humanos. He lives in Tome, which is near Concepcion. Here is a map of Chile since I keep referencing different places in Chile.


And another photo. You can see what I mean about the men who look like they could be playing checkers in Havana. It was very interesting to see the stamina that these older men and women had to sit through a meeting that went on for about 4 hours.


And here's a final picture of another Diputado, Tucapel Jimenez, who is in charge of the committee on Human Rights in the Camara. He is a son of a man, Tucapel Jimenez Alfaro, who was a radical leader in Chile during the dicatorship. His father was asasinated in 1981. I will find out more about this because I didn't know anything about this man before he came in the room.


So those are the pictures. I will follow-up with more boring things, like the interviews I get and the different roles the group has had fighting for human rights.

In other news, the snow is even more intense on my mountains, I took some pictures which I will soon post for you (Mom.) I will have more to say today, since Sunday is completely dead in Santiago. No one is anywhere and barely anything is open.

P.S. I'm watching the World Cup on Spanish (obviously) TV and when Italy scored I was making some lunch. Maybe they yell "GOOOOOOOOOAAAALLLL" to get people out of the kitchen, since futbol is almost always on. It worked.