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00:00This is Chile National Television.
00:22Good evening.
00:24The fall of the Berlin Wall is certainly one of the most resonant political phenomena of recent years.
00:31Its impact, which meant something as important as the end of the Cold War and the death of the utopias,
00:37has been widely analyzed in all international political forums.
00:42However, little is known about the effects that this collapse caused on the young people who ascribed to socialism.
00:49Our country had just become a democracy when this happened in the rest of the world,
00:54and Rodrigo Hidalgo, the protagonist of today's Mea culpa, is a young man whose life has been influenced since childhood
01:01by all the political phenomena that have developed in our country and in the world in recent decades.
01:07His childhood, for example, is marked by exile, his adolescence by the option of armed struggle,
01:14his youth by the collapse of his personal utopias and ideologies, which make him a daring and experienced criminal.
01:23Paradoxically, only his stay in prison gives him a space for the first time in his life to stop and reflect on his own existence,
01:32and also for the first time to give life to his dreams and personal projects.
01:38I invite you to meet Rodrigo Hidalgo's Mea culpa.
01:44MEA CULPA
02:15We are in the public prison of Santiago.
02:20Paradoxically, today this place does not exist as such.
02:25However, the memories of many who paid with prison their Mea culpa still remain.
02:44MEA CULPA
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03:45MEA CULPA
03:51On August 13, 1961, the Berlin Wall was built.
03:57It was built to prevent the German exodus from east to west, but in reality it divided a country in two.
04:0529 years later, its destruction became a symbol of hope for humanity.
04:15MEA CULPA
04:23This story begins with the return home of a family, like so many others,
04:29who had to go far from their homeland just to think in a different way.
04:36The years of exile were a harsh sentence for the marriage of Hidalgo García,
04:41and also the reason for deep marks on the soul of his children.
04:53Go ahead.
04:54The 1980s were passing, and although the parents returned before expected,
04:59they had the healthy intention of joining the citizen life far from political commitment.
05:05But they never suspected that little Rodrigo Hidalgo had prepared himself for another option.
05:11At 11 years old, I joined the communist youth in exile in San José de Costa Rica.
05:21More than anything, my participation in the Naikla then was limited to solidarity with the Nicaraguan revolution.
05:35From collecting clothes for the refugees, to peeling peanuts,
05:41and putting them in a bag and sealing it for the fighters of the Sandinista Front.
05:48It didn't take many years for the personality of Rodrigo Hidalgo
05:52to flourish as a leader in Santiago's 7th High School.
05:57The reigning climate was a breeding ground for opposing thoughts to the government of the time.