[Continuation of eyewitness account, translated from the Spanish]
During the last days of April the previous year [1952], Marcial Maciel had taken Armando Sanchez Arias (Zamora, Michoacan, Mexico,; LC 1947-1959) out of his peer group and brought him to Rome with him. He also took Ramiro Fernandez to Rome long before he had reached the right age [editor, Ramiro had been "recruited" for the Apostolic School in Tlalpan, Mexico City, at the age of 9]. Beginning in December 1950 Maciel also tried to bring Juan Jose Vaca over to Rome with him. (From November, 1949, in Cobreces, Santander, Spain, Maciel began sexually abusing this unfortunate boy).
En los ultimos dias de Abril del anio anterior MM habia separado a Armando Arias Sanchez (Zamora, Michoacan; LC 1947-1959) de su grupo y se lo habia llevado a Roma. A Ramiro Fenandez se lo llevo tambien antes de la edad debida. A Juan Jose Vaca trato de hacerle lo mismo y meterno en lun Liceo de Roma desde Diciembre de 1950. (Desde Noviembre de 1949, en Cobreces, MM ya venia abusando sexualmente del pobre muchachito).
The allusion you made to Ontaneda, and to [LC Fr.] Jose Maria Sanchez, leaves much unsaid [regarding pedophilia]. We became aware of the abuses ("clonation of transgenerational sexual abuse", according to Mons. Scicluna) committed by Jesus Martinez Penilla against the Apostolicos in a 1976 letter from Vaca to Marcial Maciel. Penilla was exiled to the tropical Siberia of Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico (Maciel himself never went into exile); Alfonso Valencia Castellanos (Cotija, Michoacan; LC 1949) and others was also exiled there and nothing has been heard of them since. The hardships described by Torcuato Luca de Tena in his "Ambassador in Hell" and attributed to his Blue Legion Captain Palacios in Communist Russia are nowhere near as harrowing as some of the stories we Maciel victims could tell.
Lo que dices de Ontaneda, de Jose Ma. Sanchez, etc. parece querer hacer entrever varias cosas. De los abusos (clonacion de abuso sexual transgeneracional -Scicluna dixit-) de Jesus Martinez Penilla a los
apostolicos estamos al tanto por la carta de 1976 de Juan Jose Vaca Rodriguez a MM. Penilla fue desterrado a la Siberia tropical de Chetumal, (MM nunca se autodesterro); y, como de Alfonso Valencia Castellanos (Cotija, Miachoacan; LC 1949-...) y de otros de alli no ha vuelto a saberse mas. Lo narrado en el libro de 1955 de Torcuato Luca de Tena "Embajador en el Infierno" (capitan Palacios: campania de la Legion Azul en Rusia) posee mas luces y menos sombras que ciertos recuerdos recogidos de muchos de nosotros.
Regarding Alfredo Torres (Oakland, CA/Jacona, Michoacan; LC 1942 to the present) several of us can testify that he knew all about Maciel, but he has never had the courage to bare his soul or the manliness to speak the truth publicly. He is psychologically incapable. Along with others, he is trapped in the weeds of a dark and muddy lagoon.
De Alfredo Torres (Oakland, USA - Jacona, Michoacan; LC 1942-...) varios podemos decir que de MM sabe todo y mas, pero que no ha tenido el valor de poner su alma sobre la balanza, y, virilmente, decir la verdad ante los hombres. Psicologicamente 'no puede'. Como entre las algas de un obscuro lago fangoso, el y otros han quedado atrapados.
May God give us the strength to carry on. There is still so much to do for Truth and Justice. History -micro or macro- is not over.
Que Dios nos de fuerza y nos sostenga. Por la verdad y por la justicia hay mucho que hacer aun. La historia (la grande y la chica) no ha terminado.
Jose de Jesus Barba Martin, PhD Harvard
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