"My Father Was a Hero": Son of Army Non-Commissioned Officer Breaks a Half-Century Silence, Revealing His Father's Choice to Die Rather Than Kill Fellow Citizens
After learning about Guillermo Schmidt's story from El Ciudadano, Isaac Cisterna Castillo decided to share the story of his father, Manuel Enrique Cisterna Badilla. In conversation with our outlet, he reconstructs decades of family silence, questions the official narrative of suicide, and seeks to recover the memory of a man who, according to his testimony, refused to kill civilians during the dictatorship.
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