Soledad Barrett Viedma

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Soledad Barrett Viedma
Soledad Barrett Viedma.jpg
Born(1945-01-06)6 January 1945
Laureles, Paraguay
Died8 January 1973(1973-01-08) (aged 28)
Body discoveredSão Bento, Abreu e Lima
OccupationGuerilla fighter
Known forDeath in the
Movement (VPR)
Spouse(s)
Partner(s)
RelativesRafael Barrett (grandfather)

Soledad Barrett Viedma ((1945-01-06)6 January 1945 – (1973-01-08)8 January 1973) was a Paraguayan militant activist involved in the resistance to the Brazilian military government. A granddaughter of the Spanish writer and activist Rafael Barrett, she spent he childhood in Uruguay where she was kidnapped by a group of Neo-Nazis. Having undergone guerilla training in Cuba, she joined the militant anti-fascist group (VPR) in Brazil. In 1973, she was killed in the , a massacre committed by Brazilian military police forces.

Early life[]

Soledad Barrett Viedma was born in January 1945 in Paraguay. Her father was Alejandro Barrett, the only son of the Spanish writer Rafael Barrett who had settled in Paraguay in the early 1910s.[1] She spent most of her childhood in Montevideo where here family lived in exile[2] due to their left-wing activism.[3] At the age of 17, she was kidnapped by a Uruguayan group of Neo-Nazis.[3] The incident resulted in two swastikas being incised on her thighs because she had refused to repeat slogans praising the German dictator Adolf Hitler.[2]

Activism and death[]

In 1967, having been introduced to the milieu of militant activism, Barrett Viedma travelled to Cuba in order to undergo a guerilla training.[1] It was there that she met her future husband, , a member of (VPR), a militant anti-fascist group from Brazil. The couple had one daughter.[3]

After her husband had disappeared, she relocated to his native Brazil and joined the resistance against the Brazilian military government.[1] She was stationed at Recife and began a relationship with , also known as Cabo Anselmo, a militant who had been a leader of the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état.[2] On 8 January 1973, Barrett Viedma and five other members of the resistance movement were found dead in a barn in the town of São Bento, Abreu e Lima. According to the official version of events, they died during an armed confrontation with the police from which only Cabo Anselmo had managed to escape.[2] It was later found, through the work of journalist Elio Gaspari, that the militants had been kidnapped in different locations, tortured and killed. The incident is known as the and has been described by Gaspari as "one of the dictatorship's most savage massacres".[3]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Hace 43 años asesinaron en Brasil a la paraguaya Soledad Barrett". Última Hora. Retrieved 2020-11-04.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Recordando a Soledad Barrett". Bitácora. Retrieved 2020-11-04.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Soledad Barrett Viedma". Memórias da ditadura. Retrieved 2020-11-04.
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