Liber Arce wasn't a student, he was an agitator trained in the USSR

Yes, dear reader: six months before the next march for the so-called "student martyrs," we have to talk about Liber Arce. Because Uruguay's future is our young people, and the Communist Party and its satellites are trying to mess with their heads with an epic story that is not only a lie, but also presents as a hero a despicable person, an agent of chaos and violence among Uruguayans.

At the age when young people are most inclined to listen to heroic tales, people no longer talk to them about the Siege of Paysandú or about that harangue that said: "Boys, take off your ponchos, because it is not cold on the other side...". No. People are not going to talk to them about national heroes. People are going to talk to them about professional agitators.

People are not going to talk to them about courage, but about malice. Because if there is something to say about Liber Arce, it is that he earned his living by deceiving others. He did not say to them: "Look, I do not study at all and I get paid a salary for agitating." He did not say to them: "Look, I went to Russia for a year, where in a clandestine school they taught me agitation and sabotage techniques."

People are going to tell our young people that he was a student. That is a lie. He had been enrolled for ten years in at least three institutions and had never passed a single subject. People are going to tell them that he died from a shot in the back. That is false. He died from complications of a shot that entered through his side. He would die two days later as a result of complications after a transfusion.

People are going to tell them that it was during a march for the bus fare. That is false. He died while trying to prevent the Police from finding the whereabouts of a lawyer who had been kidnapped by terrorists.
Liber Arce was an agent recruited, trained, and paid by the Russian Communist Party to sow agitation among students and to prepare the conditions to establish in Uruguay a one-party regime, as the Communist Party of Uruguay wanted—and still wants today.

The fact that there is a street in Montevideo with his name, even from before Frente Amplio came to departmental power, also speaks of how the Colorado Party in Montevideo tried to see the communists as necessary partners to build a participatory democracy, without understanding that accepting the narrative of "Liber Arce martyr" means delegitimizing Pacheco Areco and, with him, the entire Colorado Party.

From there, it was only a matter of waiting to lose popular support.
Recovering Montevideo also means recovering historical truth and recovering the street index. There is a street called Liber Arce. When we recover Montevideo, we are going to change that street's name in order to stop enthroning false idols.

Friends, there is a lot of work to be done. But people have to talk about Liber Arce. People have to talk about what a bad person he was. People have to talk about how praising him is an insult to history. People have to talk about how turning him into a symbol is an affront to the values of coexistence. People have to talk about how those who do this seek to strip us of our freedoms.

Today, friends, people have to talk about Liber Arce. There is a need to do so with the youngest. Because the future belongs to them. The responsibility to tell them the truth belongs to us.