Word: companero
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...have bank stock, we also nationalize them; and the same thing happens to those who control industrial monopolies. But the fact is that only two of us remain on the Left. And I was expelled for being a reactionary; but today the workers in my country call me "el companero presidente...
...have never accepted the excuse from a young companero who has justified his failure because he has to do political work; he must give himself the time needed to do the political work, but the first priorities are the obligations he must fulfill as a student of the university. To be a university agitator and a bad student is easy, to be a revolutionary leader and a good student is more difficult. And the university professor respects the good student, and he will respect his ideas, whatever they...
...speech is also useful in another respect: it gives a sense of Salvador Allende's cheerful energy, of his warm personality bubbling constantly from a fire within. He speaks not as a hardened theoretician, but as a friendly doctor, not as a president, but as a companero...
...Companero is a difficult word to translate. The American press usually renders it as "comrade," a cold word linked to Stalinism and hardness. Actually, "brother" might have been a better translation, but we have chosen to leave it in Spanish. Suffice it to say that one of the first decrees promulgated by the Chilean military dictatorship outlawed the use of the word, that Allende used it often, and that the Chilean people called him el companero presidente...
PEOPLE OF the University--I use this phrase to refer to all educational workers, from the President of this University to the most humble companero...