En el marco del Día Internacional de los Pueblos Indígenes, el video de Ixoqi' es un canto a la fuerza, la valentía y la resistencia de las mujeres indígenas. El video fue lanzado el 8 de marzo, Día Internacional de la Mujer.
Dignificamos y honramos la existencia y las luchas de todos los pueblos indígenas del mundo, las ancestralidades y los caminos plurales que el tiempo nos convoca a transitar.
[2017]]
Una canzone in lingua spagnola e kaqchikel, una delle lingue maya quiché, scritta da nativa guatemalteca Sara Curruchich per accompagnare il documentario "500 años" di Pamela Yates, sulle storia delle lotte indigene in Guatemala.
Ho trovato il testo di questa canzone (nei commenti su YouTube) mentre scorrevo l'infinita pagina di Memorias de lucha en Guatemala, soffermandomi ogni tanto su qualche volto, su qualche data... I volti e le date di morte o di scomparsa di alcune delle oltre 200.000 vittime di 40 anni di guerra sporca, un vero e proprio genocidio, se si considera che la feroce repressione governativa ebbe come vittime soprattutto le popolazioni indigene, non tanto perchè sostenevano la guerriglia ma perchè inevitabilmente ne condividevano lo spazio naturale, la selva.
Alcuni di quei visi e di quelle storie mi hanno fatto trasalire...
Come quello di Alaide Foppa, poetessa,... (continua)
Ki qach’alal majun chke ek’ota pe wawe’ (continua)
Beatriz Barrios had solicited, and received, permission to enter Canada as a political refugee. She had been issued and received a visa, before she was abducted only a day before she was to leave Guatemala for Canada. In Guatemala: Eternal Spring, Eternal Tyranny (1987) photographer [Jean Marie] Simon writes:
On December 10, 1985, two days after [Vinicio] Cerezo’s presidential victory, 26 year old Eugenia Beatriz Barrios Marroquin, a mother of two small children, called for a taxi to go to a friend’s home.
Minutes after she left in the taxi, she and the driver were stopped by a car with three armed men, who forced her out of the taxi and into their vehicle. Barrios had either been under surveillance or the call she made to the taxi dispatcher had been monitored by government intelligence. Although the taxi driver returned to tell the friend about the abduction, it was too late.
Her body... (continua)
Ixoqi'
En el marco del Día Internacional de los Pueblos Indígenes, el video de Ixoqi' es un canto a la fuerza, la valentía y la resistencia de las mujeres indígenas. El video fue lanzado el 8 de marzo, Día Internacional de la Mujer.