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“Ya instalada, miré a mi alrededor y no pude reprimir un suspiro de satisfacción respaldado por los rayos de sol blancos y calientes que invadían el lugar. ¿Puede haber una sensación más excitante (y atemorizante a la vez, lo reconozco) para una mujer que el sentirse fuera del alcance de los demás, de los cercanos que la aman pero que simultánea y sutilmente la ahogan?”

ChileChiapasZapatistasEscritoras LatinoamericanasSureste De México
Book:Lo que está en mi corazón
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“Se sentirá orgullosa de que su hija abandone por un momento su vida íntima, personal y limitada. Y de paso vence mágicamente por unos instantes la desolación chilena, esa desolación, aquella que nunca más nos abandonó, la que aguarda pendenciera y sin lenguaje detrás de nuestra eficiencia, de nuestra civilidad, de nuestro pragmatismo. La que nos dejó para siempre sin calor. ¿Por qué hemos llegado a ser un pueblo tan triste, o es que lo fuimos siempre y no nos dimos cuenta? ¿Cuándo, cuándo perdimos el alma?”

ChileChiapasEscritoras LatinoamericanasEscritoras ChilenasSureste Mexicano
Book:Lo que está en mi corazón
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“We are woken gently at three in the morning and told that we need to leave. Guided by the light of the stars rather than the moon, we walk for half an hour before we reach a hut. We can just about make out the presence of three men inside, but it's almost as dark as the balaclavas that hide their faces. In the identikit released by the Mexican government, Marcos was de-scribed as a professor with a degree in philosophy who wrote a thesis on Althusser and did a Master's at Paris-Sorbonne Univer-sity. A voice initially speaking French breaks the silence: “We’ve got twenty minutes. I prefer to speak Spanish if that’s OK. I’m Subcomandante Marcos.”

Civil WarInterviewsMexicoHuman Rights AbuseHuman Rights ActivistsChiapasZapatistasCorrespondentsSubcomandante Marcos
Book:Interviste del Secolo Breve
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“We have two minds. One thinks, the other knows. The mind that knows goes back many lifetimes. This is the mind of the one heart, of all things: the trees, the plants, the clouds, the rivers, the mountains. The more time you spend with this mind, the more you will see Spirit around you." Forrest Hayes (2012-02-23). Na Bolom: House of the Jaguar (Kindle Locations 1865-1866). Musa Publishing. Kindle Edition.”

SpiritualityShamanJaguarChiapasMayan
Book:Na Bolom: House of the Jaguar
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“We can look to Mexico, where a vision for social change has been powerfully affirmed by the Maya people of Chiapas. They named their vision "Zapatismo," in memory of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, and startled the world with an armed uprising on January 1, 1994. That day, and ever since, the Zapatistas have posed the basic problem: how to establish both identity and democracy? How to achieve a new life of dignity for indigenous people while also creating a Mexico of justice for everyone? Always the Zapatistas have said they do not want one without the other. At a 1996 meeting of Chicanas/os with some of the Zapatista leadership, Comandante Tacho began his presentation by saying: "We don't want power. What we want is decent homes, enough to eat, health care for our children, schools." At first I thought to myself: how can you gain those things without power? Then I realized that by power he meant domination. The Zapatista vision does not find the answer to injustice in the replacement of one domination by another, but in a vast change of the political culture from the bottom up that will create a revolutionary democracy.”

PowerDemocracyInjusticeHealth CareMexicoDominationMayaChiapasZapatistas
Book:De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century
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