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That afternoon, Moisés Orellana was tired after an arduous day at the Cañete greengrocer, where he had worked for some years. He called his mother to say that he would be late because he was going to meet friends. Tragically, that was the last time he heard his son.
At around midnight, Moisés was sharing with two other young people inside his vehicle at the height of the suspension bridge, at the edge of a desolate rural road, when two vehicles passed rapidly by.
However, when they saw the lonely Peugeot parked, some hooded men got out pointing guns at them, yelling at them to get out of there. Amid the screams, a shotgun blast rang out.
Almost instinctively, his two friends crouched down and heard one of the assailants say “you pissed it off.” The subjects then quickly returned to their vehicles and drove off in the dead of night.
At around one thirty in the morning, Carabineros personnel arrived with the dying young man at the Cañete hospital where he was urgently admitted to a ward for surgery. But he did not resist, just twenty minutes after entering the healthcare facility, Moisés ceased to exist.
A young worker
Last June, the 21-year-old had bought that blue Peugeot, adding weight to weight for his work in the greengrocer where he worked all week, to which he added on Sundays when he went to the countryside to sell his products among the neighbors.
Although he was the second of three siblings, as his older sister had married and lived in Tranaquepe, some 22 kilometers north of Tirúa, Moisés practically became the owner of the house, and much of his salary was passed on to his mother, with whom he lived with his 13-year-old brother.
Even before finishing his fourth half, he had already taken advantage of the seasons to work on his own tasks in the field, such as harvests and potato “sacadas”.
For a time he even worked as a Conaf brigadista, but in the end he decided to stay in the greengrocer of his girlfriend’s relatives. After all, it was a more stable and secure job.
A fan of Colo Colo and a lover of nuts, he had many friends in the field and everyone recognized him as a calm and hard-working boy, although a little reserved.
As a child, he accompanied his mother to a Pentecostal evangelical church in the area, however with the passage of time they stopped attending.
And so, over the years he became more than a son, a companion to his mother, which would partly explain the tremendous pain that his tragic departure has caused.
Family asks for Justice
His sister Viviana answers the only telephone with which it is possible to contact the family. Between the preparations for the wake, she takes time to talk with us because she wants it to be known that they want justice and that there is no impunity in their case.
It is not the first crime of its kind in the Arauco area. Almost two years ago Jorge Maulén, a worker traveling to Tirúa with his wife, was ambushed on the road. After several weeks fighting for his life, he finally died as a result of the complications of the devious shooting of a hooded man.
With the resigned voice and broken sighs of someone who has cried a lot, Viviana describes her brother Moisés, who, according to her regret, had plans that she will not be able to carry out now.
“He was a very hardworking child worried about his mother, he was the one who brought the sustenance to the house, he worked all week long, on Sunday the same. Sometimes he would come home during the week, he would come to accompany my mother and on Sunday he would bring fruit to take advantage of selling here in the field ”, he tells us.
“He was a sucker, every Saturday he came in his car to even be at night and he took advantage of seeing his friends and his mother too. Everything he worked for was for his mother so that he would not miss anything. He was like the man of the house, he had to see to buy things, merchandise, everything, “he adds.
“We as a family want justice, we do not want this to remain that way, that it does not touch another child,” Viviana demands sharply.
“That he would have been a Mapuche, what would they not have done, but since he is a Chilean, that is not taken into account. We want justice as a family, because the family is very hurt. Please, put that, that the family wants justice and that this does not stay like that ”, he insists.
“He was 21 years old, he had plans, he wanted to build his house, collect money, have something of his own,” he assures with resignation.
We say goodbye, while in the background children are heard playing, oblivious to the pain and rage that is breathed among the relatives, whose greatest fear is to be forgotten and that the murder of Moisés remains in total impunity.
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