Last Activity Public ex-president:
The activity was observed, with the guidance of Juan Leonardo Maureira, the model of memory, and some of the tiles already completed that will go in this great work.
President Ricardo Lagos thanked the Association of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees Paine's the way they have been healing the wounds that resulted in its members the Human Rights violations of their loved ones during the military regime. 
So said today the president to visit the memorial built in remembrance of the 70 victims who did this district during the operation of the Armed Forces, as of September 11, 1973.
On the occasion, Lagos highlighted the ability of the bereaved cope with the pain stop this loss and turn it into force and to fight to happen never made the arrest, torture, disappearance and death of persons committed during that period.
"With the way we all have faced this tragedy, the way you have faced the pain, and pain have become a force able to continue fighting for living life, and how then each activities that you have emerged have done so with a positive sense of turning something that is a tremendous personal and collective tragedy, a chance to draw strength, first to anymore (are given these facts), but second, to sing a hope that life continues. By singing this hope is making the best of tributes, "said the head of state.
During the meeting, Lagos was accompanied by Interior Minister Francisco Vidal, and Public Works, Jaime Estevez.
Under what was his last public activity on the ground before handing over command this weekend, the President stressed that "this group, like many others, have turned pain into strength, the injustice of yesterday have become a reason to fight anymore; the need to continue the memory is to tell the story of Chileans in the morning, so it does not ever happen again. "
"I know some people, who at the time were involved in these events, continue to circulate," he said, but stressed that "the way that the group has dealt with this is exemplary and they decided to create this youth orchestra of the grandchildren, I think it was a remarkable way of understanding how those who cultivated the culture of death, here are answered with the culture of life, because ultimately the culture of life always wins and always wins. "
The memorial, created by artist and architects Alejandra Ruddoff Iglesis and Leopoldo Jorge Prat, is a metaphor for the profile of a forest of thousand posts heights varied wood suspended in time, built to remember and recall a story he wants to stay in the retina of each pedestrian, motorist or driver who sees it from different angles, and not to repeat the events of pain experienced 33 years ago.
Thus, the proposal called "Forest typographical" occupy the entire field and generate a large air profile evokes the ridges. Of the total enrolled in orthogonally pillars, 70 will be removed so that these spaces of 2.8 square meters, the elaborate mosaics families in memory of each of the disappeared in this community.
In the center of this monument, called "A place for memory, an agora is built to house meetings and other events and setting a mall linked to the agricultural purpose of providing a parking area shade and shelter. (UPI)
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