Roberto Parada

He also played the role of Pablo Neruda in the film Burning Patience (1983 film), literary work of Antonio Skármeta, who also participated in the making of the film as a director and screenwriter. The film was shot in 1983, and also featured the performances of Óscar Castro Ramírez and Marcela Osorio. While he was working on the work Primavera with a broken corner, adaptation of the homonymous work of Mario Benedetti, his son, José Manuel, was kidnapped and later murdered in the so-called "Caso Degollados", together with Manuel Guerrero (leader of the AGECH - Association of Teachers of Chile) and Santiago Nattino. José Manuel and Manuel Guerrero were kidnapped at the doors of the Latin American Integration College, on the morning of March 29, 1985. The next day, on the road to Quilicura, both found beheaded with Santiago Nattino, who had been kidnapped on March, 28. Four months later, judge José Canovas Robles established that an intelligence operative group of the Carabineros had executed the kidnappings, torture and subsequent assassination of the communist leaders. In May 1986, he suffered a thrombosis. The political persecution led him to leave the country with his wife, heading to Buenos Aires and then to Moscow, where he died on November 20, 1986.