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"Sermón del migrante."

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"Bajo una ceiba, tiene un
epígrafe de Francisco Morazán

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que dice, Declaro que mi amor
a Centroamérica muere conmigo.

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Y Dios también estaba en
exilio, migrando sin término.

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Viajaba montado en la bestia y
no había sufrido crucifixión,

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sino mutilación de piernas,
brazos, mudo y cenizo, todo él,

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mientras caía en cruz desde
lo alto de los cielos,

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arrojado por los malandros,
desde las negras nubes del tren,

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desde góndolas y vagones
laberínticos sin fin.

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Y vi claro como sus costillas
eran atravesadas por la lanza

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circular de los coyotes, por
la culata de los policías,

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por la bayoneta
de los militares,

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por la lengua en
extorsión de los narcos.

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Y era su sufrimiento tan grande
como el de todos los migrantes

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juntos, es decir, el
dolor de cualquiera.

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Antes, mientras estaba
él en Centroamérica,

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esa pequeña Belén hundida en
la esquina rota del mundo,

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nos decía en su
sermón del domingo,

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mientras bautizaba a los
desterrados, a los expatriados,

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a los sin tierra, a los pobres
en las aguas del agonizante río

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Lempa, el que quiera
seguirme a Estados Unidos,

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que deje a su familia y abandone
las maras, la violencia,

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el hambre, la miseria, que
olvide a los infames caciques

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y oligarcas de
Centroamérica y sígame.

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Y aún mientras caía, antes
aún de las mutilaciones,

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antes de que lo llevaran al
forense hecho pedazos para ser

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enterrado en una fosa
común, como a cualquier otro

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centroamericano, como a los
cientos de migrantes que cada

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año mueren asesinados en México,
mientras caía con los brazos

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y las piernas en forma de
cruz, antes de llegar al suelo,

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a las vías, antes
de cortar su carne,

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las cuadrigas de acero y los
caballos de óxido de la bestia,

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antes de que su bendita sangre
tiñera las varias coronas de

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espinas que ruedan sobre los
rieles clavados con huesos a

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la espalda del imperio mexica,

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el señor recordó en visiones a
su discípulo Francisco Morazán

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y le dio un beso en la mejilla
y tomó un puñado de tierra

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centroamericana y ungió con
ella su corazón y su lengua.

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Y recordó que Morazán
le preguntó una vez,

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mientras yacían bajo
la sombra de una ceiba,

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aquella en la que había hecho
el milagro de multiplicar

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el aguardiente y las
tortillas, Maestro,

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¿qué debemos hacer si nos
detienen y nos deportan?

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A lo que él respondió,
deben migrar 70 veces 7.

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Y si ellos les piden los dólares
y los vuelven a deportar,

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denles todo, la capa, la
mochila, la botella de agua,

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los zapatos y sacudan el polvo
de sus pies y vuelvan a migrar

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nuevamente de
Centroamérica y de México,

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sin voltear a ver
más nunca atrás."

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[APLAUSOS]

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"I hereby declare my love for
Central America dies with me,

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Francisco Morazán."

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"And God too was in exile,
migrating without end.

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He traveled riding the beast and
had not been crucified but was

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maimed in the arms and legs,
mute and ashen all over as he

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fell in the shape of the cross
from the highest heavens,

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thrown down by delinquents from
the black clouds of the train,

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from the endless labyrinth
of góndolas and boxcars.

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And I saw plainly how his ribs
had been pierced by the curved

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spears of smugglers,
the gun butts of cops,

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the bayonets of soldiers,
the narcos extorting tongues.

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And his suffering was as great
as that of all the migrants put

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together, which is to say
it was like anybody's pain.

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Before, when he was
in Central America,

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that little Bethlehem sunken
down in the broken center of the

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world, he said to us
in his Sunday sermon,

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as he baptized the
vanished and exiled,

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the landless and poor in the
waters of the dying Río Lempa,

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let those who would come
with me to Estados Unidos,

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leave their families behind,
and abandon the the violence,

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the poverty, and hunger, and
forsake the despicable bosses

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and oligarchs of Central
America, and follow me.

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And yet, as he fell, even
before the mutilations,

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before they carried him
to the coroner's office,

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torn to pieces, to be buried in
a common grave like any other

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Central American, like the
hundreds of migrants who are

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murdered every year in Mexico,
as he fell with his arms and

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legs in the shape of a cross,
before hitting the ground,

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the tracks, before his flesh was
torn by the steel chariots and

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iron horses of the beast, before
his sacred blood stained the

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various crowns of thorns that
roll along rails that were

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riveted in with bones on
the Aztec kingdom's back,

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the lord recalled in
visions his disciple,

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Francisco Morazán and kissed his
cheek and took up a handful of

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Central American dirt to
anoint his tongue and heart and

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recalled that Morazán
had asked him once,

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as they lay in the
shade of a ceiba tree,

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the very one where he'd worked
the miracle of multiplying the

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moonshine and tortillas, Master,
what should we do if they arrest

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us and deport us?

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To which he responded, you
must migrate 70 times 7.

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And if they ask you for
dollars and deport you again,

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give them all you have,
your garment your backpack,

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your water bottle, your shoes,
and shake the dust from your

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feet and migrate once more
from Central America and Mexico

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without turning ever
again to look back.

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[APLAUSOS]

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