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"Suchiate, Chiapas."

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Y una pequeña acotación.

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Las coordenadas geográficas
que aparecen en este libro son

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el lugar exacto en el que una
migrante o un migrante niño,

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persona mayor, adulto,
hombre fue asesinado.

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La mayor parte de
esos asesinatos,

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esos crímenes fueron cometidos
por autoridades mexicanas,

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no solamente por traficantes
de personas o por otros.

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"Suchiates, Chiapas."

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"Este es el origen de la
reciente historia de un lugar

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llamado México.

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Aquí migraremos, estableceremos
la muerte antigua y la muerte

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nueva, el origen del horror,
el origen del holocausto,

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el origen de todo lo acontecido
a los pueblos de Centroamérica,

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naciones de la gente que migra.

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Vine a este lugar porque me
dijeron que acá murió mi padre

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en su camino hacia
Estados Unidos,

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sin llegar a ver los dólares
ni los granos de arena en

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el desierto.

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Bajé de los Cuchumatanes, desde
los bosques de azules hojas de

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la nación Quiché, desde la
casa en donde habitan la niebla

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y los quetzales, hasta
llegar cerca de Ayutla,

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a la orilla del río Suchiate.

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Abandoné el olor a cuerpos
quemados de mi aldea,

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la peste militar con sus
ladridos de tierra arrasada,

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mordiendo hueso y calcañar
con metrallas y napalm.

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Su huracán de violaciones
y navajas que aniquilaba a

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los hombres de maíz con perros
amaestrados por un gobierno que

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alumbra el camino de sus
genocidas con antorchas de

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sangre y leyes de mierda.

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Huí del penetrante olor
a odio y podredumbre.

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Caminé descalzo hasta el otro
lado del inframundo para curarme

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los huesos y el hambre.

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Nunca llegué.

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Dos machetazos me dieron en el
cuerpo para quitarme la plata

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y las mazorcas del morral.

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El primero derramó mis
últimas palabras en Quiché.

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El segundo me dejó completamente
seco porque a mi corazón lo

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habían quemado los kaibiles
junto a los cuerpos de mi

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familia.

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Dicen algunos que en la
ribera de este río se aparece

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un fantasma.

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Pero yo sé que soy,
que he sido y seré,

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el unigénito de los muertos,
guardián de mi propia sombra,

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negro relámpago de mi pueblo,
bulto ahogado en esta poza en

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donde inicia Xibalbá.

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Dos fichas de Cerveza
Gallo pusieron en mis ojos.

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Todos los días veo cruzar por
estas aguas a los barqueros de

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la muerte, a los comerciantes
del dolor que llevan en sus

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canoas de tablas y cámaras
de llantas las almas de

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los migrantes enfiladas
puntualmente hacia el tzompantli

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llamado México.

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Dicen polleros y coyotes que ven
mi fantasma en la ribera por eso

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se santiguan y rezan al cruzar
las aguas rotas de este espejo

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seco en el que escriben su
nombre con el filo estéril de

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las hachas votivas.

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Todos los días veo pasar
a las hileras de muertos,

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a los que migran sin
llegar a Estados Unidos,

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parvadas de cuerpos en pena,
tristes figuras humanas,

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barro entre los
insomnes dedos de dios.

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Yo, primogénito de
los migrantes muertos,

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los recibo con un racimo de
filosos machetes en lugar de

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brazos, iluminado por la cara
oculta de esta luna leprosa.

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Bienvenidos al cementerio
más grande de Centroamérica,

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fosa común donde se pudre
el cadáver del mundo.

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Bienvenidos al abierto
culo del infierno."

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[APLAUSOS]

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"Suchiate, Chiapas."

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"This is the beginning of the
recent history of a place called

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Mexico.

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Here we'll journey.

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Here we'll establish death,
both ancient and new,

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the beginning of
horror and holocaust,

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of all that has happened to
the peoples of Central America,

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the migrant nations.

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I came to this place because
they told me my father died here

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on his way to Estados Unidos
without reaching it to see any

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dollars or grains
of desert sand.

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I came down from the
sierra of the Cuchumatanes,

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from the blue-leaved forests
of the Quiché nation,

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from the house where
fog and quetzals dwell,

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until I reached the shore of
the Río Suchiate near Ayutla.

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I left behind my village's
smell of burnt bodies,

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the howling military
stench of scorched earth,

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napalm and shrapnel gnawing
at our bones and feet,

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the hurricane of
rape and knives,

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the slaughter of corn people,
with government-trained dogs,

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the government lighting its
genocide road with torches of

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blood and laws of shit.

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I fled the penetrating reek
of hate and corruption,

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walked barefoot to the far side
of the underworld to heal my

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bones and my hunger.

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I never arrived.

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Two blows of a machete they
dealt me to steal my money and

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my few ears of
corn from my pack.

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The first blow scattered my
last few words of Quiché.

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The second one left me all dried
up because the kaibiles had

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burnt my heart already beside
the bodies of my family.

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Some say a ghost appears
by the banks of this river,

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but I know that I am and have
been and will be the only

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begotten son of the dead,
guard of my own shadow,

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black lightning
bolt of my people,

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swollen bundle drowned in
this pool, where Xibalbá,

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the place of fear, begins.

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Two Gallo beer bottle
caps they set in my eyes.

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Every day, I see death
boatmen crossed these waters,

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merchants of pain, in
canoes and inner tubes,

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bearing the souls of migrants
in a line on schedule to the

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tzompantli, the human
skull rack called Mexico.

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The polleros and coyotes say
they see my ghost on the banks,

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and that's the way they
cross themselves and pray,

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because they ford the troubled
waters of this dry mirror on

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which they write their names
with the meager blades of ritual

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axes.

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Every day, I see the
ranks of the dead go by,

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the ones who migrate to Estados
Unidos without reaching it,

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hordes of bodies in purgatory,
sad human shapes clay between

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the sleepless fingers of God.

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I, firstborn of
the migrant dead,

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receive them not with open arms
but with a cluster of sharpened

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machetes lit by the hidden
face of this leprous moon.

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Welcome to the largest
cemetery in Central America.

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The mass grave where the
world's dead body rots.

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Welcome to the open
asshole of hell."

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[APLAUSOS]

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