—Please, Jorge, don’t start—you probably sing terribly —his friends teased him.
Jorge took the guitar and, looking Emi in the eyes, began:
Quiero tener un hijo (I want to have a child)
que se parezca a vos, (who looks like you)
con los ojos tristones y lejos (with distant, wistful eyes)
y una música en el corazón. (and music in their heart)
Quiero que el hijo nuestro (I want our child)
sueñe como los dos. (to dream the way we do.)
Jorge had begun his political life just after graduating from the Christian Brothers school in Carrasco neighbourhood, where he used to sing Beatles songs. None of the ones who had just mocked him could have imagined it. They soon realized how wrong they were.
Based on testimonies in Los padres de Mariana. María Emilia Islas y Jorge Zaffaroni: la pasión militante (2023, Ediciones Del Pajarito) by François Graña.
- Name
- Jorge Roberto Charleta Zaffaroni Castilla
- Place of birth
- Montevideo, Uruguay
- Date of birth
- 02/05/1953
- Place of disappearance
- Argentina
- Date of disappearance
- 27/09/1976
- Age
- 23 years old
