Clotario Blest

Hello classmates!

Today I am going to talk about a person that I think was great.  His name is Clotario Blest Riffo and he was a leader union (he found the CUT) and an important leading figure along his life.

Clotario was a life leader because everywhere he was he tried to make something about the conditions of the people there, trying to organize them or make something about their relationships with their employer.

He was a union leader because he believed on the power and potential of the working class to make the revolution and stop the rule. It is an important point because Clotario united that aspiration with a Christian belief and that was a revolutionary thing on his time. Besides he believed on the autonomy of the workers on his dispute and emancipation, putting the traditional party away.  

There a lot of things to say about his life and his thoughts, so i will list some landmark to make this easier. When he was on the seminary was expelled because he organized a strike opposed to the authorities. On the 30’s he found the group “germen” related with the ideas of “la teología de la liberación”. When he started working with public workers he understood that his organizational work will be difficult. Since that day he started organizing workers with things out of the formal politics: the football.A few years later he found the ANEF and more later the CUT.  

I think that Clotario was an important person because he thought about the revolution and the organization as a way of life. He was so disciplined about the things that he thought that were important to be a tenacious person and he actually did that until the day he died.

If I could talk to Clotario I would like to ask him about his training and about the educational ways he used with the workers.