By Mario Roberto Morales (*)
GUATEMALA CITY - (...) The revolutionary phenomenon and family Castillo Quiñonez says Zoila (sister of Otto René):
"Our family, both maternal and paternal branches", "always had dictatorial political activism. In the bourgeois-democratic revolution of 1.944, which overthrew a military dictatorship 14 years-took our mother's brothers and two of our brothers who by then were minors. René Otto was still a child.
"During the governments of Arévalo and Arbenz -1.945 to 54 - and subsequent governments, working the 4 older brothers René Otto. We play regular posts importance in the implementation of social reforms, the Labour Code and Land Reform. We had membership in revolutionary parties. (Interview by Zoe Anglesey Zoila Quiñones Castillo, p.1).
From 1.954 to 1.957 Otto remains in El Salvador. About your stay aware Roque Dalton:
"At 18 of age together with a large group of Guatemalan revolutionaries set out in El Salvador, seeking proximity to the homeland, which would increase the efficiency of the fight then. Login to the University after a time to focus on various trades to make a life serene a parking of cars, house painter, bookseller. Simultaneously poems written with great intensity despite being revolutionary works of early youth, attention in the cultural circles of El Salvador and, paradoxically, opened the doors of the "great newspaper" El Salvador, especially after obtaining American Poetry Prize of the University in 1.955. "Paradoxically, the traditional quality media that reactionary and militant uninterrupted quality of life of the poet. In fact, Otto René Castillo spent immediately in the ranks of PC Salvadoran also developed an intense proselytizing among intellectual circles, a regular revolutionary activity related to the Guatemalan people's struggle was in El Salvador, and from El Salvador, laid underground working faces.
"Otto René Castillo during that period crossed the Guatemala-El Salvador border on several occasions, in the strictest secrecy, and taking risks palpable. Since then left shown his courage, his willingness to take on the tasks from the point of view of revolutionary importance of these and not the personal danger that might entail, such as younger and she knew of life of communist militancy as in no time may cease to be: a fight that never stops. (...) His political and literary activity in El Salvador was very important: from within the University Literary Circle was a tireless worker for the unification of criteria for young writers and artists of that time, on issues of social responsibility revolutionary-creator and also a popularizer of the most revolutionary poets influenced the starting point of what would later be called the "generation committed" (Nazim Hikmet, Miguel Hernández, César Vallejo, seen as a Communist poet, Pablo Neruda, etc..), from the PC and other organizations of democratic institutions, was a zealous promoter of Marxist ideas. It also had an important influence on many writers and artists accessions young Salvadoran revolutionary ideas and communist activism. His poetic work transcends the borders of El Salvador, returned to Guatemala (where he won the University Autonomy-1.956-in reverberating through Europe (WFDY granted, from Budapest, International Poetry Prize in 1.957). (...) In 1.957, Otto René Castillo returned to Guatemala, ending his successful Salvadoran exile. Still studying Law and Social Sciences at the University of San Carlos where he received the prize "Philadelphus Salazar" the best student and obtained by its use a scholarship to study in the GDR. " (Dalton, Report of an injustice. Pp. 9-12).
The Autonomy of the University Award, the wins with his famous poem "Come home to walk."
About Otto René stay in El Salvador, says Manlio Argueta (13/06/1989 Interview in San Jose, Costa Rica) he was not in the group of Salvadorans who came to Guatemala in 1.953, and there they met Otto. Manlio, informs us that he comes to San Salvador, from San Miguel, to study at the University at 1.955. Otto was already there and was a friend of Roque Dalton. Manlio recalled that several Guatemalan soldiers in El Salvador arbencistas exiles had founded the radio news "Radioprensa" which became the country's most famous radio news program, establishing a tradition of spoken press did not exist until then in El Salvador. In this working paper Arqueles Morales-who had come with his father into exile, "Otto René and Roque. René Otto goes on to be editor of La Prensa Gráfica plant, where he created photo essays signed with his name, which had a high profile social and shortly thereafter is fired because of the popularity reached its incisive articles on readers. By this time Otto Rene and Roque win the tournament at the University of El Salvador to "Two fists in the earth," in which he extolled the figures of two Indian heroes: Athanasius Tzul and Anastasio Aquino, Guatemala and El Salvador, respectively. As students and journalists who were literary award given local prestige. The controversies that both maintained around the political commitment the writer and artist were collected in the journal sheet, then led by Italo López Vallecillos, and those arguments were the core of the ideology of the Committed Generation, a group that initially consisted of Otto Rene Castillo, Roque Dalton, Roberto Armijo and others they were abandoning the path set, then had to integrate Tirso Canales, José Roberto Cea and the same Manlio Argueta. Arqueles Morales, Manlio telling us is, not integrated because he was very young. The teacher of all was the Salvadoran poet Veiled Oswaldo Escobar. Read More
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