Credit Suisse Singapore Admin

NEVER TOO LATE: For the bicentennial

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bicentennial The word means that our country will meet two hundred years of independence, two hundred years separate us from Spain (1810/2010). Now imagine the following:

• First Generation: A (a) young mestizo (a) 16 years in 1810 supports the standard in the fight against the English. Can not read or write, but likes the idea that the children of slaves born in Chile are born free. Was persecuted during the English conquest, fighting alongside Manuel Rodriguez and helps the Liberation Army of the Andes Mountains cross without being detected by the English. He noted the embrace between Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martín, after defeating the English in Maipú (April 5, 1818). Cried treason death of guerrilla (Manuel Rodríguez) and went to their relatives in the I found, was matched and had their offspring (children). We do not know as it was called or who died, but there was because I am his descendant. Second
• generation: do not know who he was or how it was called, but there was because I exist. He worked for the employer taking care of animals and planting wheat, egged on hera mares threshing, where he met his partner. Manuel Montt was president of Chile. His children never brought up, never learned to read or write, never went to school. From odd jobs and some were to die in foreign wars or pests rare. He and the youngest were taken to the North as soldiers and servants to fight a war for Bolivian and Peruvian desert land filled with salt. There he died, there were children.
• Third generation : Exploited the caliche, protested a salary in cash and not in plastic sheets. They believed that the lion would give school and education for their sons and daughters, but only the heart and devoured their flesh. Had children who never attended school but learned to demand and fight for a better life. Were blue in the saltpeter and returned to the countryside and the city, lived in tenements, some of her children died soon after birth, but some survived and why I'm here.
• Fourth generation: some came back and stayed on the field, others came and stayed in the city. Gabriel González Videla betrayed them and chased them to reclaim education for their children, who could not go to school. However, some patterns created schools estate and minor children were to them. We learned a few letters, but had to continue working.
• Fifth generation: what the school did, they did mutual funds and labor unions: EDUCATE. Yes, it seems incredible, but my grandparents were able to go to school if only to know and take the hits from their teachers, learned about vowels and alphabet, in addition and subtraction.
• Sixth Generation: Eduardo Frei and Salvador Allende by presidents: learn to read and learn the secrets of the books and add, subtract and multiply. Some disappeared for demanding living.
• Seventh and Eighth generation: and we were in school. We want and we are in middle school. We in higher education, we want professionals: teachers, engineers, doctors, lawyers, architects, psychologists and journalists. If ... after almost two hundred years, someone finally came to high school. But ... When will we have a professional degree?

never too late ... know about our grandparents and parents, their sacrifices, hopes and desires. We can not miss this opportunity. Your children will, but you do so now. Finish high school, be a professional now. You have time to realize the hopes of generations anonymous, do not leave it to future generations ... Please.