Roberto Parada (September 15, 1909,

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– November 20, 1986, Moscow, USSR) was a Chilean actor, theater director and teacher with a long career of more than 50 years on the stage, and also was a standout militant communist.Blog Liceo de Aplicación
Roberto Parada Ritchie. Inspector of the Lyceum, Outstanding National Actor. Married to the actress and deputy of the

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(1965-1969) and the Party for Democracy (1990-1994),

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. They had two children, Maria Soledad and the sociologist Jose Manuel, who while working for the Vicariate of Solidarity, assassinated by agents of the DICOMCAR (Directorate of Communications of Carabineros), repressive organ of the dictatorship of

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. He also played the role of

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in the film ', literary work of

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, who also participated in the making of the film as a director and screenwriter. The film was shot in 1983, and also featured the performances of

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and

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. While he was working on the work ''Primavera with a broken corner'', adaptation of the homonymous work of

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, his son, José Manuel, was kidnapped and later murdered in the so-called "Caso Degollados", together with Manuel Guerrero (leader of the AGECH - Association of Teachers of Chile) and Santiago Nattino. José Manuel and Manuel Guerrero were kidnapped at the doors of the Latin American Integration College, on the morning of March 29, 1985. The next day, on the road to

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, both found beheaded with Santiago Nattino, who had been kidnapped on March, 28. Four months later, judge José Canovas Robles established that an intelligence operative group of the

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had executed the kidnappings, torture and subsequent assassination of the communist leaders. In May 1986, he suffered a

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. The

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led him to leave the country with his wife, heading to

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and then to

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, where he died on November 20, 1986.

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Blog Liceo de Aplicación
Roberto Parada Ritchie. Inspector del Liceo, Destacado Actor Nacional.
Latin American Theatre Review
Roberto Parada. Actor y señor de las tablas en Chile. Vol 20 Nº 2. 1987 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Parada, Roberto 1909 births 1986 deaths Chilean male film actors Chilean male stage actors Chilean communists Chilean artists Chilean schoolteachers Chilean theatre directors Chilean expatriates in the Soviet Union