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00:00For a day unknown until now, they gave with the wherewithal of one of Rodrigo's colleagues,
00:06who at the time had determined to abandon the crime in a definitive way,
00:12having as a project, in addition, to continue his studies and get married.
00:19Awarded for the circumstances, his partner in robberies became a delator,
00:25and he had no problems in handing over his accomplices.
00:30All this on the pretext of a minor conviction.
00:47At the end of October 1990,
00:50carabiners arrived at the home of Rodrigo Hidalgo
00:54to proceed with their important capture.
01:30The carabiners arrived at the home of Rodrigo Hidalgo
01:33to proceed with their important capture.
01:53Rodrigo Hidalgo was interrogated until he discovered
01:56that these delinquent incursions had nothing to do with his political past.
02:02The fact that he had met a member of the Manor Rodríguez Front
02:06in full force, was a special attraction for the carabiners.
02:11But they were only facing an absolutely atypical case
02:16of a former militant who now only stole for personal gain.
02:27We don't share a fundamentally delinquent action.
02:34We never shared a delinquent action to deepen democracy.
02:40Nor do we share it in the current period, because we had a very clear objective.
02:44From that point of view, we only repeat what we have said.
02:50Rejecting an action that, in this minute and in the current period,
02:54does not contribute to deepening democracy.
02:57We have not given political support to Rodrigo.
03:03Fundamentally, for the reasons I explained to you.
03:05I think the fundamental thing that influenced that
03:08is to mark our activity as political activity.
03:11Therefore, the militants who fell, who became a political enterprise,
03:16motivated by what was the fight against the dictatorship,
03:19yes, we assumed their public defense, but this was not the case.
03:22Don't you feel responsible for being the secretary-general of a party
03:27when you give more concrete weapons, as you say,
03:30for example, military strategies or armed struggle strategies?
03:34I have not said that we have no responsibility
03:38nor that I consider it normal that such situations occur.
03:42What I have said, fundamentally, is that there is a moment
03:45in which both the learned and the collective experience combine
03:49within the organization.
03:50In the case of the communist youth, along with the individual experience,
03:54it seems to me that there are more motivations
03:56that led people to act in the way people acted,
04:00for example, in the case of Rodrigo.
04:02But I would also ask the opposite question
04:04of many people who do not act like Rodrigo,
04:07who remain in the youth, I myself remain in the youth
04:10and I have an opinion and I act in a certain way
04:13and I have a certain experience of fighting against the dictatorship
04:16that I apply in the new conditions
04:19and I try to develop politically.
04:21Now, what happened in particular with Rodrigo,
04:24I think that the fundamental thing is to call our reflection
04:28to do more, so to speak,
04:31what is the ideological commitment,
04:34the values that should drive us to our political activities.
04:37That is the fundamental thing today for us
04:39because that was questioned with what happened with Rodrigo.
04:44However, the clarity of the facts,
04:46the press did not exclude headlines
04:48to leave doubts about it.
04:53Absolutely, I confess,
04:55out of political commitment,
04:57he arrived at the jail in Puente Alto
04:59from the penitentiary in Santiago.
05:03From that moment, this 23-year-old young man
05:06began to assume the weight of confinement
05:09and all the profound meaning
05:11of having lived violently permanently in his environment.
05:17His unusual step as an admired and exemplary leader
05:21to a common and ordinary criminal
05:23caused surprises in those who knew his talent and social commitment.
05:30Rodrigo came to my mind in high school,
05:33high school, UES,
05:35a new high school student.
05:37That's where we met, that's where I met him.
05:40He came from the 7th high school group,
05:42I came from another group.
05:45Actually, we all believed in a process that was going to change,
05:50that we were going to be more or less free,
05:53that we were going to be able to sing and shout in the streets.
05:56Basically, that was what Rodrigo said
05:58and what we all said.
06:00And that's where we were, and we played it
06:02until the myth went away from our heads.