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00:00He was four years older than me, so he was older than me now.
00:07I met him when I was young in Valverde Maho.
00:12And the truth is that I was a guravero with a lot of prejudices,
00:20because in Guravo people were famous for outing the black people.
00:25Peña produced something very special for me.
00:30But after that, in San Cristobal, I spent many years as a teacher
00:36in the secondary school and in the reformatory.
00:39And I was in the technical school for five years,
00:43living and talking about important things.
00:46It was impressive.
00:48Sometimes we surrounded 40 or 50 young people who studied in different parts of the country,
00:54and it was the same Peña Gómez since I met him.
00:59And at the end of his life, it was the same Peña Gómez.
01:02A very strange thing.
01:04Because sometimes positions and leadership impregnate some people
01:10when they don't have human qualities,
01:13arrogance and arrogance.
01:17Peña Gómez was absolutely none of that.
01:22But the most important thing in my long journey with Peña,
01:25and we visited many countries,
01:28the north of him was education.
01:33He did not negotiate with anything or anyone
01:37the need to prepare us and make all the necessary help
01:43or effort or commitment for education.
01:46Obviously, in his political formation,
01:51he had a very special respect and he formed himself politically.
01:55He was lucky to meet great leaders in the world
01:59and I was also lucky to accompany him.
02:02But the most important thing in Peña was his human quality.
02:06I could not understand a person of his political conditions
02:12and political leadership
02:14who respected so much the dignity of the most in need.
02:18He never forgot the poorest of Quisqueya, never.
02:22It was a fraternal love he had.
02:25But Peña Gómez left us, unfortunately.
02:30And something that I did not ...
02:32And he never wanted to understand.
02:35When he asked me,
02:37we spent four hours in the capital in his car
02:41for him to tell me that I had won the commission for vice president
02:46because he wanted to look for an arrangement with other forces.
02:50And they said, because we have four hours and he does not tell me anything.
02:55It is that the respect he had for his friends and for the people who were loyal to him,
03:02he did not dare to tell me.
03:04I said, Peña, we already have four hours, I jump, what's wrong with you?
03:08And he tells me this possibility.
03:11And I told him, count on me and select whoever you want,
03:14that I will support you because I want you to be president.
03:17I want you to represent the dignity of the Dominican population.
03:20And you are, without a doubt, the claimant of these groups.
03:24That's why ...