empty vessels

In 1524, according to colonial accounts, an extraordinary face-off took place in one of the great buildings of Tenochtitlan, capital of the Triple Alliance – the Aztec empire, as it is better known – which Hernán Cortes had conquered three years before. Facing each other across the room two delegations of elite clerics battled over the nature of God. On one side were twelve eminent Franciscan monks, who had travelled from Europe in a mission authorized by Pope Hadrian VI. On the other were twelve high priests from the Triple Alliance, men who had wielded immense spiritual and political power until Cortes shuttered the grand temples and brought down the clerisy.

Los Indios/2

El lenguaje como traición: les gritan verdugos. En el Ecuador, los verdugos llaman verdugos a sus victimas.

-- ¡Indios verdugos! --  les gritan. 

De cada tres ecuatorianos, uno es indio. Los otros dos le cobran, cada día, la derrota histórica. 

Para la Catedra de Derecho Penal

En 1986, un diputado mexicano visitó la cárcel de Cerro Hueco, en Chiapas. Allí encontró a un indio tzotzil, que había degollado a su padre y había sido condenado a treinta años de prisión. Pero el diputado descubrió que el difunto padre llevaba tortillas y frijoles, cada mediodía, a su hijo encarcelado.

B.O.B.

edge of darkness: B.O.B. Beast of Burden

DPSI

Dear friends and relatives,

I certainly feel i owe you a personal email full of appreciation and gratitude for your support and faith in me throughout the years, or better still a proper letter. At this moment i simply want to share the result of an exam i took in June. It really doesn't matter from a universal perspective and it's hardly a big achievement...yet this time since discovering i had leukemia has been challenging in such a profound way that i am relieved and sort of surprised.