He was born in Santiago de Compostela in 1920 and has just died in the bathroom of La Reina (the place of the last name Larrain of his ancestors). He was a professor for 22 years and his passion for theater: actor, director and theater writer.

He also wrote: The anti-history of a wrestler, published in 1993, was written during the Pinochet dictatorship and is a biography of the syndicalist Clotaria Blest. He also wrote novels based on historical characters like Violeta Parra. In 2000 he wrote his testimonies in the book Difficult Wrapping (It was impossible to keep it...).

She was part of the Women for Life movement, a group of women against the dictatorship. The aim was to restore democracy and spontaneous, peaceful and public marches were carried out, with the aim of influencing society.

Although he could not speak in recent years, he did express in writing his support for the social mobilizations initiated on 18 October (as can be seen in the photo):

The baby in France with his grandfather fleeing the dictatorship

Until the age of eight, his grandfather (his mother’s father) lived in France with Eliodoro Ponce Yanez de León, and on his return he forgot Spanish. Eliodoro Ponce took over the Liberal Party and in 1894 he was appointed a deputy. In 1917 he founded the newspaper La Nación, but had to be exiled in 1927, fleeing the dictatorship of Carlos Ibáñez del Campo. The dictator was made with the newspaper and turned it into a speaker of the dictatorship. Her grandson Monica accompanied Eliodoro Ponce into exile.

Flight and rival of the Pinochet dictatorship

Monica Echeverría and her husband Fernando Castillo Velasco went to the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom because of the militancy of their son and daughter in the revolutionary movement MIR. The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao hosted the event between 1974 and 1978.

Upon his return, he organized an exhibition on erotic art at the Catholic University around 1980. In 1981, during the Pinochet dictatorship, he carried out Operation Chancho, on Ahumada Street in the city center, releasing a pig to cross the street running, with the same txapela as Pinochet. In 1988 he was co-founder of the Independent Movement for the Democratic Consensus, which brought together people opposed to the dictatorship who did not militate in political parties.

In 2003, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the coup, he performed the following radio theater: The last epic of Salvador Allende.

Basque ancestors, fortunas

Through the website that allows genealogy analysis, with eight more generations of Mónica Echeverría, you can see that he is descended from "indies" of Navarra towards 1680. Not precisely because of the name Echeverria, which comes from a relative who left Seville. Lekaroz and Larrain are two of the most beloved surnames in the Basque Country.

Pedro Lecaros moved to Santiago from Berroeta (Ziga, Baztan) and was mayor in 1736. His small cousin Micaela married Lecaros Ovalles and had descendants with him.

The daughter of both, Maria Josefa Lecaros Lecaros, married Juan Francisco Larraín Cerda, and this man had also gone from Navarra to Chile: Santiago Larrain Vicuña, born in Aranaz in 1666. Santiago accumulated a great fortune (1,500 ukuilus) and consolidated both the estate and the property in Tobhija, today called La Reina, by effect of his last name.

There are many families that have been mayors of Santiago, and there are also those who have held more positions in politics: Manuel Echeverría Larraín was a deputy and participated in the elaboration of the Chilean Constitution and signed the first constitution as a deputy in 1828.

Famous writer's mother

Maria Flora Yáñez was the mother of Monica Echeverría. He wrote stories and novels. Between 1933 and 1980 he published 14 papers.