Hipólito en la tumba de Peña

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00:00He was four years older than me, so he was older than me now.

00:07I met him when I was young in Valverde Maho.

00:12And the truth is that I was a guravero with a lot of prejudices,

00:20because in Guravo people were famous for outing the black people.

00:25Peña produced something very special for me.

00:30But after that, in San Cristobal, I spent many years as a teacher

00:36in the secondary school and in the reformatory.

00:39And I was in the technical school for five years,

00:43living and talking about important things.

00:46It was impressive.

00:48Sometimes we surrounded 40 or 50 young people who studied in different parts of the country,

00:54and it was the same Peña Gómez since I met him.

00:59And at the end of his life, it was the same Peña Gómez.

01:02A very strange thing.

01:04Because sometimes positions and leadership impregnate some people

01:10when they don't have human qualities,

01:13arrogance and arrogance.

01:17Peña Gómez was absolutely none of that.

01:22But the most important thing in my long journey with Peña,

01:25and we visited many countries,

01:28the north of him was education.

01:33He did not negotiate with anything or anyone

01:37the need to prepare us and make all the necessary help

01:43or effort or commitment for education.

01:46Obviously, in his political formation,

01:51he had a very special respect and he formed himself politically.

01:55He was lucky to meet great leaders in the world

01:59and I was also lucky to accompany him.

02:02But the most important thing in Peña was his human quality.

02:06I could not understand a person of his political conditions

02:12and political leadership

02:14who respected so much the dignity of the most in need.

02:18He never forgot the poorest of Quisqueya, never.

02:22It was a fraternal love he had.

02:25But Peña Gómez left us, unfortunately.

02:30And something that I did not ...

02:32And he never wanted to understand.

02:35When he asked me,

02:37we spent four hours in the capital in his car

02:41for him to tell me that I had won the commission for vice president

02:46because he wanted to look for an arrangement with other forces.

02:50And they said, because we have four hours and he does not tell me anything.

02:55It is that the respect he had for his friends and for the people who were loyal to him,

03:02he did not dare to tell me.

03:04I said, Peña, we already have four hours, I jump, what's wrong with you?

03:08And he tells me this possibility.

03:11And I told him, count on me and select whoever you want,

03:14that I will support you because I want you to be president.

03:17I want you to represent the dignity of the Dominican population.

03:20And you are, without a doubt, the claimant of these groups.

03:24That's why ...

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