Consiglieri Bertha, colleague, friend, died From a small room on the outskirts of Brussels remember my friend Bertha. A few hours ago my wife and her friend always gave me the bad news by phone. It was a surprise of course. A sad surprise. But at the same time maybe I should have been wary something: looking back, Bertha's health did not seem right for some time. With Bertha
we knew more than three decades as a militant of the same causes. Not for a moment stopped believing in what I thought since I was a young journalist, chronicled by the peasant movement in the seventies in notable magazines as I should not have left more. Naturally he joined CEPES since the early eighties, not to leave us more.
During those years, and until the last day of his life, he wrote hundreds, thousands of pages of agricultural and rural developments, always loyal to his beliefs and commitments of youth: the farmers' right to dignity, respect their civil rights, the right to good quality of life. Beyond the rural, space has always been the center of interest, Peru wanted a truly democratic. Moreover, in the last institutional document CEPES, Bertha introduced an amendment to our mission: not enough to orient us toward democratic development, he argued, but point to a just and equitable world. Bertha
absence leaves a world of my affections and all colleagues of CEPES. But it also leaves a great void as a worker in a specialized institution in the rural agrarian question: was the most known. It was his way of being closer to those you will always be identified: farmers.
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