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Yawar Mallku, Blood of the Condor
« Reply #90 on: September 08, 2020, 07:22:30 am »
Holden,

Thank you for your response. Bull fights are popular but mostly in the countryside but here bullfights are different from the ones in Spain.

Yes, we, men and women, are vain creatures.  Here we have the tradition of quinceañeras, when a girl turn 15 there is a big party where the girl is in the process of becoming a woman. This is an important event. I have seen the pictures sometimes of their proud fathers and mothers. Will I tell them that their girl is ready for a future wedding? No, I won´t. It is not polite to say such things.

You say people think so little before getting married or having kids. In reality, we use our diiccks instead of our brains.  Most, in my view, agree to have children just to show they are already very mature.

Indeed it is improper to speak of unacceptable things in the polite company. An acquaintance refused to accept the truth of this law of life: Everything that is born must die. This person said that parents or grandparents must die before children die. This world shows that this is not always the case.

Yes, wedding planners, obstetricians, even those who are to retire soon will never tolerate such talk. After all who is going to pay for their retirement if there are no new generations of slaves?

We are irrational and cruel creatures. That is the way we have been made. I have always blamed the powers that be for their cruelty. But those below are also cruel. Everything is connected. Our true father is Cain because we enjoy killing each other.

Otto René Castillo (1936-1967), was a Guatemalan poet and guerrilla fighter. He joined the struggle as a chief of propaganda. Later he was captured by the army and taken to the barracks where he was tortured and burned alive with Nora Páiz, his partner.

Some lines in his poem, El gran Inconforme, The Great Nonconformist,say:

Nunca preguntes            Never ask a man if he suffers
A un hombre               because one always suffers in some    
Si sufre,                         way, on some road.
Porque siempre
Se está sufriendo
En alguna forma
Y en algún camino.

Take care.

P.S. Below is a scene of a movie called Yawar Mallku, Blood of the Condor, directed by Jorge Sanjinés in 1969, a Bolivian filmmaker. It is based on a true story where women of the Quechua community were being sterilized clandestinely by a so-called Progress Corps (in reality the U.S. Peace Corps). When the Quechua elders find out what is happening they attack the doctors but the attackers are captured and executed by the Bolivian military. This even happened in the 1960s.