The secret story of hatred, betrayal and infidels …

For Etchevehere it was normal make a person wait for hours. It didn’t matter if he came to negotiate the price of soybeans or corn, or ask for water for the pump: when the family was inside the house and the housekeeper announced that someone was outside, the more common was to let him wait four hours. or five hours.

“For show power and submission. They accepted a worker if and only if that person was submissive and obedient. I didn’t qualify if you did well or badly, I had to comply with orders for anything and take very low payment: be submissive, obedient and charge next to nothing. It was the formula for working with my family“.

He says it in a tone of confession Dolores Etchevehere; the confession of a disobedient to an oppressive family mandate.

Dolores accuses her brothers of economic violence, drug trafficking, fraud against the state, forced labor in their fields. Beyond formal complaints in court, Dolores shares the daily life of the house where she grew up. Stories of a family named after a radical conservative who was Pedro Eugenio Aramburu’s candidate for vice-president in 1963, Dolores’ grandfather, and a former governor of Entre Ríos, his great-grandfather.

Four generations

The story begins with Luis Lorenzo Etchevehere, who He was governor of Entre Ríos in the 1930s and founder of The newspaper, the main newspaper of Paraná. A business that decades later would be emptied by her great-grandchildren, according to Dolores. The Entre Ríos judiciary drew up the case until it was relaunched under the Artigas project, and now they would summon Dolores’ brothers and mother to testify.

Luis Lorenzo had seven children: six wives and a male, Arturo J. Etchevehere, sole heir of their property.

Grandfather of Dolores he kept all of the father’s real estate and political contacts. With these assets, he devotes himself to the management The newspaper and increase family wealth. He made his mother (Margarita Fernández de la Puente, the governor’s widow) sign a pledge to give him the rights to the fields in exchange for a monthly fee. He put all the family assets in his name under the argument that he would take care of his sisters and immediately transferred the properties to the front men in Santa Fe under the argument that he was thus protecting them from “probable”. expropriations of Peronism“.

Dolores is very aware of this family history when she talks about the discrimination she has suffered. “I realized from an early age that none of the sisters owned anything. My grandfather made them disappear one way or another, ”he says.

The third generation is that of Luis Félix Etchevehere, The father of Dolores, who married Leonor Barbero and they had four children. Dolores was the third. She, Luis Miguel, Juan Diego and Sebastián grew up in a house with a mother and father who lived together but didn’t get along well.

“My mother has always been cheated on by my father. All Paraná knew the name of his father’s girlfriend, she lived near her house. Dad didn’t want mom because he had his girlfriend, “says Dolores. Despite this, he continued to maintain this appearance of a united family.” The bond between them was horrible, my mom had a sad life next to my dad, but she was excited about money“, describe.

Business obsession

L’Etchevehere had a monotheme: On field trips, at dinner parties, on her return from hockey or piano, Dolores would see her father and brothers assess whether or not to move forward with an opportunity to do business with the government , with justice.

“At the table, when they were talking about business and I wanted to put a song in it, the constant was that no, you couldn’t with me because it was disobedient“.

To participate in these “moves”, Dolores had to confirm her loyalty to the family. Whatever happens you had to fulfill the power pact. “Ever since I was disobedient, they doubted me.” Dolores did not participate but watched: she remembers perfectly when Luis Miguel grabbed his father’s neck because he didn’t want to move on with business.

“When my dad said okay, that’s it, we have several things open, Luis Miguel’s claim has always been the reason why we didn’t go forward with everyone.”

Why did they see you as disobedient?, I ask him Page 12.

– Because every time I heard a business come up, I would comment on something very short like “do you think?”, “Is it necessary?” Or “ah well!”.

Just to disagree with one word, Dolores has been classified as a girl and as an adult as disobedient. Judicial disobedience is the crime for which she was arrested on Thursday, October 29, when she refused to leave her family’s stay at Casa Nueva.

Memories

L’Etchevehere did not take any vacation. They went to the family farm, but always to do something specific: see how production was or close a business. If you are asked about your first memory, Dolores says in the field and nature: “I have always enjoyed it and appreciate it very much, but as a family plan there was this touch of tension that something always had to happen.”

He does not have good memories of his brothers. They interrupted him moments of harmony with his dad, who “pulled me out a bit and cut me off, told me we have some friends and we would talk about something else.” Dolores reads a lot and Russian literature is her weakness. Tolstoy, Chekhov, Dostoyevsky. “There is great inspiration for those in power and those who work the land.”

She mentions that her mother was embarrassed by the affectionate bond she had with Luis Félix. He said, “I don’t know why you love your father so much if he doesn’t love you.”

“He was abandoned”

At 18, he moved to Buenos Aires. She was the only one of the brothers not working in one of the family businesses. The only one who knows what a paycheck is. With the money he was earning, he went on a trip. He has traveled across Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Zaire, Somalia and India from north to south.

In these journeys, he recognizes that his identification was born now with Artigas project. “It was focused in the beginning, trying to keep children from getting sick, trying to keep them from going hungry. Go to the basics, to food, to nutrition to avoid. Obviously, there was an Artigas project without knowing that there was going to be an Artigas Project “.

The family history that followed is known. Eleven years of investigation and complaint against a fraudulent manipulation of your inheritance by your siblings It does not discriminate against the disadvantaged: rural producers, partners, creditors, the State, its own sister.

He says he had a revelation about the theory of rejection in “Laudato si”, Pope Francis’ first encyclical. “I realized he was an abandoned and I reflected on this concept because I went through a similar process ”.

An identification by networks and newspapers with Juan Grabois resulted in a call. “I asked him the following: this battle consumed ten years of my life, I want to go because I am a woman of actionThis is how the Artigas project was born.