'Someday I will go home'
Chilean reflects on self-imposed exile
By Jim Moore
Of the Emerald
Like many American women, Cabriela Videla
has a career, and during the course of a work day
she is likely to reflect on her family and wonder
what they might be doing — just as anyone might
do at work.
But unlike American women, when Videla
ends her workday and goes home she remains
thousands of miles from home.
Videla is a Chilean who works in Cuernavaca,
Mexico, producing a monthly newsletter em
phasizing the value of women to community
development.
Her separation from her native land is by
choice, a self-imposed exile that allows her to do
her work and possibly keeps her from danger.
Videla was out of the country in 1973 when
Gen. Augusto Pinochet unseated the elected
government of Salvador Allende in a military
coup.
As a member of Allende's government, in
1972 she was the director of a Chilean govern
ment program providing counsel and assistance
to popular organizations.
After the takeover, her house was ransacked.
But what happened to her was mild compared to
other acts committed by the new government.
Thousands of Chileans have disappeared during
the Pinochet regime and thousands more are
homeless.
Videla says she could return to Chile — if she
remained passive regarding Pinochet's reign —
but there would be no work it she did.
When Videla speaks of going home she shifts
forward on the couch, her normally gyrating
hands fall still and rest in her lap, and her sparkl
ing, dark eyes narrow.
"I have a lot of work to do in Mexico, but
someday I will go home," she says.
And that return could be expedited by a
change in the United States government's rela
tions with Chile, she says.
When the Reagan administration lauds the
economic improvement and move toward
democracy under Pinochet and offers financial
support, it is incorrect, according to Videla.
Statistics support her. Since Pinochet's
takeover the unemployment and foreign debt
Gabriela Videla
percentages have increased, while average in
come and production have declined. And while
Allende was elected, there have been no elections
under Pinochet and several violations of the
constitution.
But there is something the United States can
do, she says.
"I think the United States should get out, no
intervention; covert or overt," Videla says.
Videla was at the University Tuesday as part of
the Women's Symposium, speaking about
"Women and Alternative Media in Mexico" and
as part of a panel discussion.
The Symposium will continue through
Saturday.
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