Osvaldo Peredo Leigue (also Osvaldo Peredo Leigh, nom de guerre: Chato) (1941 – 12 January 2021) was a physician and a Bolivian revolutionary leader. He lived in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, where he was an alderman on the Municipal Council of Santa Cruz de la Sierra.[1]
Biography
editPeredo was born and grew up in Trinidad in Beni Department in northern Bolivia, and was strongly influenced by his older brothers[2] who helped found the Bolivian Communist Party and were leaders in guerrilla movements.[3] After receiving his initial medical training Peredo left the profession and joined the Ñancahuazú Guerrilla movement of Che Guevara,[4] known as the National Liberation Army (ELN). However, because of the need for medical services, Peredo left to attend Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow where he received advanced medical training as well as ideological training.[4] Upon his return to Bolivia he became one of the leaders of the movement.[5] After Che Guevara was killed, Peredo was among those few who managed to escape to Chile.[5] In November 1970, Salvador Allende, after he assumed the presidency of Chile, pardoned Peredo, Mario Suarez and the other survivors.[5]
While practicing medicine as a guerrilla, Peredo developed his use of hypnotism as a therapy, both for the control of pain and for psychological trauma.[4] He developed a hypothesis somewhat similar to L. Ron Hubbard's engram theory in Dianetics, namely that past painful memories were the source of some current illness.[4]
In 1997 Peredo joined Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples (MAS) and actively worked for the election of Evo Morales.[3] In 2006, Peredo was elected as an alderman on the Municipal Council of Santa Cruz de la Sierra.[3] But by 2015 he had become disenchanted with the MAS party saying that "right-wing" elements in the party were subverting the party's mission of progressive change.[6] In 2020, Peredo rejoined the MAS party.[6][7] On 12 January 2021, Peredo died from medical complications at age 79.[8][9]
Notes
edit- ^ "Concejo Municipal de Santa Cruz de la Sierra: Comisiones (Municipal Council of Santa Cruz de la Sierra: Commissioners)". Archived from the original on 20 July 2008.
- ^ His older brothers were Guido Álvaro Peredo Leigue and Roberto "Coco" Peredo Leigue.
- ^ a b c "Osvaldo ¨Chato¨ Peredo". El Trabajador del Estado (in Spanish). Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2008. Archived from the original on 5 May 2016.
- ^ a b c d "Psicoterapia de expansión de conciencia (Psychotherapy expansion of consciousness)" (in Spanish). Revista Natural. 1 March 2000. Archived from the original on 6 March 2004.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b c Carmona, Ernesto (24 October 2006). "Teoponte, la otra guerrilla guevarista en Bolivia (Teoponte, another guerrilla Guevara in Bolivia)" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 3 November 2007.
- ^ a b ""Chato" Peredo vuelve al masismo por la "revolución"". Opinión. Cochabamba, Bolivia. Archived from the original on 16 March 2020.
- ^ "Osvaldo "Chato" Peredo retornó a las filas del MAS" (in Spanish). ATB Digital (Asociación Teledifusora Boliviana, Illimani de Comunicaciones S.A.). 4 March 2020. Archived from the original on 31 March 2020.
- ^ "Fallece Osvaldo "Chato" Peredo por complicaciones de salud". Los Tiempos (in Spanish). 12 January 2021. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
- ^ Bolivia, Opinión. "Muere el "Chato", guerrillista, militante y disidente del MAS". Opinión Bolivia (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 January 2021.