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One should look for UCA’s earliest martyrs in the 70’s,
when our country lived under what was known as “the fascist military dictatorship”.
In those years, one could end up in the sights of the most ferocious and terrible repression…
… just by saying publicly that social injustice existed in El Salvador.
In 1979 several UCA students were murdered,
among them my sister… my sister Delfina Góchez Fernández,
a psychology major,
because of her commitment with the social struggle.
Delfina, whom we always called Delfy, lived the revolution in a literary sense too,
and left unpublished many poems.
A few years after her death I decided to make a selection of her verse,
put it to music and show the results in the University’s Song Festival of 1986,
under the title of “Something Simple”. That was 24 years ago.
That song, “Something Simple”, was awarded a prize that year by a jury…
… formed by the tenor Eduardo Fuentes, the writer and beloved teacher Francisco Andrés Escobar,
who recently passed away (an applause in memory of Don Paco),
and the salvadorian musician Salvador Marroquín, in that moment conductor of the University’s Choir.
The prize included, besides the honor, a diploma I’ve lost track of…
… and also the inclusion of the song in the University’s Choir repertoire
(I’ll settle this later with Juan Carlos Berríos, current Director).
Ok, the thing is… this night I want to share with all of you a video of the song “Something Simple”,
that I made a few days ago, in which you’ll see old family pictures of Delfy...
... and the text of the poem itself, which gives an accurate idea of my sister’s life ideals.
Let’s see, then, the video for the song “Something Simple”.
The video you just saw can be found in YouTube,
with a search that includes three words: “Poema algo sencillo”, this three words in YouTube,
“poema algo sencillo”, you’ll see it there, �