WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.130 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.130 --> 00:00:04.640 align:middle line:90% "Tapachula, Chiapas." 00:00:04.640 --> 00:00:09.020 align:middle line:84% "Perseguidos por el genocida Efraín Ríos Montt, 00:00:09.020 --> 00:00:15.560 align:middle line:84% mis padres huyeron de Guatemala el año de 1982 y se refugiaron 00:00:15.560 --> 00:00:19.220 align:middle line:84% en un pedazo de selva en Chiapas, México. 00:00:19.220 --> 00:00:21.800 align:middle line:84% Lejos de las montañas del Quiché, 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:26.240 align:middle line:90% nací ixil en tierras mexicanas. 00:00:26.240 --> 00:00:30.470 align:middle line:84% Volvimos después de la firma de los acuerdos de paz, 00:00:30.470 --> 00:00:34.700 align:middle line:84% pero nadie firmó un acuerdo para terminar con el hambre. 00:00:34.700 --> 00:00:37.670 align:middle line:84% No teníamos maíz ni para sembrar. 00:00:37.670 --> 00:00:41.600 align:middle line:84% Cuando me llegó la luna, decidí bajar de las montañas a 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:45.950 align:middle line:84% Tapachula y trabajar de cocinera en una casa. 00:00:45.950 --> 00:00:50.960 align:middle line:84% Prometían buena paga, pero mis primas me engañaron al llegar 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:55.340 align:middle line:84% y me vendieron como un bulto a la dueña de un prostíbulo en 00:00:55.340 --> 00:00:56.720 align:middle line:90% la frontera. 00:00:56.720 --> 00:01:02.090 align:middle line:84% Me hacían abrir las piernas y cerrar casi siempre la boca. 00:01:02.090 --> 00:01:05.099 align:middle line:84% Basta decir que todos me golpeaban, 00:01:05.099 --> 00:01:08.370 align:middle line:84% hasta que huí con Daniel, taxista de Tapachula, 00:01:08.370 --> 00:01:12.840 align:middle line:84% borracho y drogadicto, pero me mató a patadas nomás a ver de mi 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:14.130 align:middle line:90% embarazo. 00:01:14.130 --> 00:01:18.000 align:middle line:84% Tiró mi cuerpo al río o al pútrido Coatan, 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:21.660 align:middle line:84% donde antes lanzó también al niño. 00:01:21.660 --> 00:01:26.040 align:middle line:84% Enterrada en esta tumba del panteón jardín sin nombre, 00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:30.420 align:middle line:84% estoy perdida, acompañada por los varios rostros difusos de 00:01:30.420 --> 00:01:32.190 align:middle line:90% otras gentes. 00:01:32.190 --> 00:01:36.660 align:middle line:84% Quiero decirles que ni todo el peso de la tierra me asfixia 00:01:36.660 --> 00:01:40.980 align:middle line:84% tanto como el peso de uno solo de los cuerpos jadeantes 00:01:40.980 --> 00:01:43.980 align:middle line:90% y sucios que en vida soportaba. 00:01:43.980 --> 00:01:47.130 align:middle line:84% Sé que mi madre me busca en caravanas, 00:01:47.130 --> 00:01:49.740 align:middle line:84% llevando en el pecho una foto mía, 00:01:49.740 --> 00:01:53.250 align:middle line:84% esa en la que aparezco vestida en día de fiesta. 00:01:53.250 --> 00:01:59.580 align:middle line:84% Mi tía la acompaña, cargando un abanico con tres imágenes más. 00:01:59.580 --> 00:02:03.780 align:middle line:84% Pero mis primas están malditas porque siguen vivas, 00:02:03.780 --> 00:02:08.590 align:middle line:84% abiertas y partidas por el sudor y los erectos machetes de carne 00:02:08.590 --> 00:02:12.880 align:middle line:84% de los choferes y estibadores del mercado San Juan. 00:02:12.880 --> 00:02:18.700 align:middle line:84% Ojalá que mi madre vuelva a San Gaspar Chajul y se quede dormida 00:02:18.700 --> 00:02:22.780 align:middle line:84% bajo la incandescencia de nuestro sol de maíz recién 00:02:22.780 --> 00:02:25.600 align:middle line:90% nacido de la muerte, como yo." 00:02:25.600 --> 00:02:28.480 align:middle line:90% 00:02:28.480 --> 00:02:31.812 align:middle line:90% [APLAUSOS] 00:02:31.812 --> 00:02:32.770 align:middle line:90% 00:02:32.770 --> 00:02:35.710 align:middle line:90% "Tapachula, Chiapas." 00:02:35.710 --> 00:02:39.520 align:middle line:84% "Hounded by that mass killer, Efraín Ríos Montt, 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:44.650 align:middle line:84% my parents fled Guatemala in 1982 and took refuge in a piece 00:02:44.650 --> 00:02:47.650 align:middle line:84% of the rainforest in Chiapas, México. 00:02:47.650 --> 00:02:49.930 align:middle line:84% Far from the mountains of Quiché, 00:02:49.930 --> 00:02:54.040 align:middle line:84% I was born of the Ixil people on Mexican soil. 00:02:54.040 --> 00:02:57.430 align:middle line:84% I went back home when peace had been signed, 00:02:57.430 --> 00:03:01.030 align:middle line:84% but no one ever signed an agreement to put an end to 00:03:01.030 --> 00:03:02.260 align:middle line:90% hunger. 00:03:02.260 --> 00:03:04.630 align:middle line:90% We had no corn to plant. 00:03:04.630 --> 00:03:08.530 align:middle line:84% When I came of age as a woman, I decided to come down from the 00:03:08.530 --> 00:03:13.600 align:middle line:84% mountains to Tapachula and work as a cook in someone's house. 00:03:13.600 --> 00:03:15.850 align:middle line:90% They promised good pay. 00:03:15.850 --> 00:03:19.750 align:middle line:84% But when I got there, my girl cousins deceived me, 00:03:19.750 --> 00:03:26.260 align:middle line:84% sold me like baggage to a lady who ran a brothel on the border. 00:03:26.260 --> 00:03:29.770 align:middle line:84% They made me open my legs and shut my mouth. 00:03:29.770 --> 00:03:33.250 align:middle line:84% Needless to say, they beat me up. 00:03:33.250 --> 00:03:38.500 align:middle line:84% Then I ran off with Daniel, a taxi driver from Tapachula, 00:03:38.500 --> 00:03:43.210 align:middle line:84% a drug addict and a drunk, who kicked me to death when he found 00:03:43.210 --> 00:03:45.340 align:middle line:90% out I was pregnant. 00:03:45.340 --> 00:03:49.900 align:middle line:84% He dumped my body in the river, the putrid Coatán, 00:03:49.900 --> 00:03:52.780 align:middle line:90% along with the baby boy. 00:03:52.780 --> 00:03:57.550 align:middle line:84% Buried in this grave in a garden in a cemetery called the garden, 00:03:57.550 --> 00:04:01.780 align:middle line:84% I'm nameless and lost, thrown together with the vague, 00:04:01.780 --> 00:04:05.050 align:middle line:90% dim faces of other people. 00:04:05.050 --> 00:04:09.950 align:middle line:84% I want to tell you that all the weight of the earth 00:04:09.950 --> 00:04:14.510 align:middle line:84% won't smother me as much as just one of the panting, 00:04:14.510 --> 00:04:19.610 align:middle line:84% filthy bodies I put up with in life. 00:04:19.610 --> 00:04:23.270 align:middle line:84% I know my mother is traveling in caravans to look for me, 00:04:23.270 --> 00:04:27.800 align:middle line:84% wearing my picture on her chest, the one that shows me dressed up 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:29.300 align:middle line:90% for a party. 00:04:29.300 --> 00:04:34.820 align:middle line:84% My aunt goes with her, carrying a fan with three more pictures. 00:04:34.820 --> 00:04:38.000 align:middle line:84% But my cousins are more cursed because they're still alive, 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:43.820 align:middle line:84% split open by the sweating stiff machetes of flesh of drivers and 00:04:43.820 --> 00:04:46.970 align:middle line:84% dockworkers from the San Juan Market. 00:04:46.970 --> 00:04:53.210 align:middle line:84% God willing, my mother will return to San Gaspar Chajul and 00:04:53.210 --> 00:04:56.810 align:middle line:84% sleep beneath our incandescent sun, 00:04:56.810 --> 00:05:02.600 align:middle line:84% the corn sun newly born from death, like me." 00:05:02.600 --> 00:05:05.300 align:middle line:90% 00:05:05.300 --> 00:05:08.650 align:middle line:90% [APLAUSOS] 00:05:08.650 --> 00:05:11.000 align:middle line:90%