Marcelino Chiarello

a defender of human rights

Abstract

This article highlights the militancy of the councilor of Chapecó, SC, Marcelino Chiarello, especially his defense to human rights, relating it to his sociopolitical education, based on a Catholic branch of the Liberation Theology and influences from Bishop Dom José Gomes. On his entire political activities, in social and union movements, he exercised great leadership and showed radicalism in defense of principles from which he had inherited from the teachings of the Bishop. In his political trajectory he was a militant of social struggles, with involvement in mobilizations of teachers, as well as a councilor for two terms. During his second term as a councilor, on November 28, 2011, he was found hanged in his residence. It also presents the developments of investigations and narrative disputes between the indication of homicide and, as officially defined, suicide. Such outcome had widespread repercussion from local society, especially from dozens of entities, which understood that it was a crime encouraged by struggles carried out by Chiarello.  This article was produced from research on the collection about Marcelino Chiarello at Centro de Memória do Oeste Catarinense (CEOM), through journalistic articles and bibliographies that come close to the character.

Keywords: Human Rights, Militancy, Resistance