The classrooms become the second home of children and adolescents. In those spaces full of maps, drawings and posters, there is a teacher who tries to leave a mark on each student. During the Teacher’s Daya work that transcends the examination of exams and the explanation of the daily lesson is visible.
“Education is an act of love, therefore, an act of value,” said Brazilian pedagogue Paulo Freire. That courage It is commemorated every June 25date on which the teacher’s day is officially celebrated in Guatemala.
This commemoration has its origin in the magisterial mobilizations that occurred on June 25, 1944, whose purpose was to put an end to the dictatorial regime of the then president Jorge Ubico Castañeda.
During the march of that day, the teacher was killed María Chinchilla Recinos. In honor of his memory, the June 25 as teacher day in Guatemalaaccording to historical sources.
Who was María Chinchilla, the teacher who gave life to the teacher in Guatemala?
According to hemeographic information of Free press, Chinchilla was born on September 2, 1909, in Asunción Mita, Jutiapa. He obtained Your teacher title in 1927at the Jalapa Institute, and stood out among the students of their promotion for their academic performance, being the flag bearer.
He served as a teacher in that municipality and also worked in the capital schools Felipe Flores, Manuel Cabral and María Minera.
What happened on June 25, 1944?
During the first half of the 1940s, various sectors sought the end of the Ubiquista dictatorship. Nevertheless, The repression increased, so the university movement and the teaching were organized to openly resist the Ubico regime.
In 1944 they began the June days as a manifestation of rejection of the dictatorship. On the 22nd of that month, the student set a 24 -hour period to respond to their demands and those of the teaching. However, this did not happen and constitutional guarantees were restricted.
On June 24, the document was presented to Ubico 311 memorial To demand the restoration of these guarantees, and new protests were carried out, to which the State responded with the use of police and military force.
On June 25, a crowd mobilized towards the center of the capital, where there were arrests, injured and deceased. Although a dialogue was attempted, negotiation was not completed.
A procession of women who left the temple of San Francisco was dissolved by a firearm attack, whose result was the death of Chinchilla And more people injured, as registered in the book Panic to attackby the Guatemalan author Manuel Galich.