Mea culpa S1E9x1

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00:00This is Chile National Television.

00:22Good evening.

00:24The fall of the Berlin Wall is certainly one of the most resonant political phenomena of recent years.

00:31Its impact, which meant something as important as the end of the Cold War and the death of the utopias,

00:37has been widely analyzed in all international political forums.

00:42However, little is known about the effects that this collapse caused on the young people who ascribed to socialism.

00:49Our country had just become a democracy when this happened in the rest of the world,

00:54and Rodrigo Hidalgo, the protagonist of today's Mea culpa, is a young man whose life has been influenced since childhood

01:01by all the political phenomena that have developed in our country and in the world in recent decades.

01:07His childhood, for example, is marked by exile, his adolescence by the option of armed struggle,

01:14his youth by the collapse of his personal utopias and ideologies, which make him a daring and experienced criminal.

01:23Paradoxically, only his stay in prison gives him a space for the first time in his life to stop and reflect on his own existence,

01:32and also for the first time to give life to his dreams and personal projects.

01:38I invite you to meet Rodrigo Hidalgo's Mea culpa.

01:44MEA CULPA

02:15We are in the public prison of Santiago.

02:20Paradoxically, today this place does not exist as such.

02:25However, the memories of many who paid with prison their Mea culpa still remain.

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03:51On August 13, 1961, the Berlin Wall was built.

03:57It was built to prevent the German exodus from east to west, but in reality it divided a country in two.

04:0529 years later, its destruction became a symbol of hope for humanity.

04:15MEA CULPA

04:23This story begins with the return home of a family, like so many others,

04:29who had to go far from their homeland just to think in a different way.

04:36The years of exile were a harsh sentence for the marriage of Hidalgo García,

04:41and also the reason for deep marks on the soul of his children.

04:53Go ahead.

04:54The 1980s were passing, and although the parents returned before expected,

04:59they had the healthy intention of joining the citizen life far from political commitment.

05:05But they never suspected that little Rodrigo Hidalgo had prepared himself for another option.

05:11At 11 years old, I joined the communist youth in exile in San José de Costa Rica.

05:21More than anything, my participation in the Naikla then was limited to solidarity with the Nicaraguan revolution.

05:35From collecting clothes for the refugees, to peeling peanuts,

05:41and putting them in a bag and sealing it for the fighters of the Sandinista Front.

05:48It didn't take many years for the personality of Rodrigo Hidalgo

05:52to flourish as a leader in Santiago's 7th High School.

05:57The reigning climate was a breeding ground for opposing thoughts to the government of the time.