Berta Caceres: Blood should not be water
“We are in the sight of the Hitman. Our lives are hanging on a thread, but they will not arrest us for fear. This fight belongs to the people, and if we miss it, people will follow.” Berta Cáceres told Argentine activist Claudia Korol. In the early morning of March 3, 2016, in the village of La Esperanza, in Honduras, four hit men entered his home and took their lives.
The Ministry of Justice found seven criminals, but they were the ones who fired, and not the one who ordered them to shoot. Berta fought for water and life in Honduras and lost her life due to the struggle. She was fighting against the construction of a dam to defend the Gualcarque River between Santa Barbara and Intibuca divisions, which the Lenca people considered sacred. She was fighting the Agua Zarca hydroelectric project. “Among the rivers, we are the ancestral custodians of the Lenca people and are protected by the souls of girls who teach that giving life in different ways to defend the river means giving life for the benefit of humanity and this planet.” She said when she was awarded the Goldman Award for Environment.
Corol wrote a book titled The Revolution of Bertha, published by Ediziones America Libre in 2018. “Revolutionary since childhood, almost as a child, a teacher, mother of three daughters and one son, dear friends, daughters, sisters, aunts, cousins, companions, internationalism, warriors of the Lenca people, for example, educators, caretakers of nature, rivers, forests, biodiversity, cultural and spiritual activists anti-militarism”.
In 2011, she came to Argentina for a visit and was able to interview. “Our struggle is for the rights of indigenous peoples and women. From the beginning, we fought with teachers who raped indigenous girls in schools, but the punishment was too great.” “, said Berta, who is fighting all the violence.
She was an indigenous woman who advocated for women in the land. She was a feminist and expelled bullies or abusers from her organization. However, she did not feel close to feminism, which only applies to women closest to power. “We don't like elite feminism, far from women's struggles and struggles for water and territory,” she said.
Today, one of his daughters, Berta Zúñiga Cáceres, continues the struggle for land, water and life through the Honduran Council of Public and Indigenous Organizations of Citizens (COPINH). Berta Zuni, the grandmother of Caceres and Berta Caceres's mother, Berta Flores Lopez, was another wrestler and midwife. And their struggles continue to make history.
Camilla Vallejo: A dog that could not be shut
Camila Vallejo was a student leader in Chile with present-elected President Gabriel Borik. She became a deputy, and in 2015, when she gave her daughter Adela a chest sitting on a bench, her image revolutionized Congress. She was president of the League of Universities and is a geographer.
Camila Vallejo was appointed spokesperson for the next government and has already stated that she does not plan to leave Palacio de la Moneda to give lectures to traditional media, but she will innovate on digital platforms, from Twitter to Tik Tok.
She established a government planning office at the university as a sign of continuity with the preliminary phase of management and the youth rebellion. It was the face of the Chilean student march (2011 and 2012) that demanded free and quality education.
On February 28 of this year, at the headquarters of the University of Chile, she declared: “Being able to work as a pastor here is full of pride and a lot of gratitude thanks to his alma mater,” he said, “I have a lot of stories and good experiences here, and there are many moments in the struggle for education reform, free education and defense of public education.”
Camilla, 33 years old, is a spokesperson for the President of the Government of Gabriel Borik. She is one of 14 women who make up the majority of women's cabinets. Her name is Camila Antonia Amaranta Vallejo Dowling, and her beauty, confidence and ideas have waged a macho war against her. Now, for the first time, she will arrive in the administration.
“The dog dies and the cam ends,” a former official from the Ministry of Culture tweeted against her. But they didn't kill the dog and her career didn't end. And her appearance continues to attract attention. A suit with a jacket and pink shorts (elegant and sexy) that caused a sensation at the appointment of the cabinet, but beauty is also a tool before public opinion. “I am objectively pretty and I have no problem speaking, but I have not decided what my appearance will be. What I decided was what my political project was.” She told the Chilean magazine Paula in 2011.
“Perhaps it was very difficult for Camilla because she is a young, smart and beautiful woman. Perhaps she was advised not to be the protagonist. ' I frown on the left, and the woman is so conspicuous'. (And why not?) Maybe they say, 'You have to step back and allow your teammates to give their opinions and take over the screen', and they do it well, correct and very clear in their speeches, but they don't have the brilliance of Camilla who sparked a student uprising with her rude spring.” Talk about love edited by Seix Barral.
Mariel Franco: Ghetto Councilor
Mariel Franco (38) is a feminist, lesbian, black, sociologist, and resident of the Maré ghetto in Rio de Janeiro, who became a member of the Socialist Liberal Party (PSOL). She was killed on March 14, 2018, and her murder became the political murder of a woman who came to power under the most iconic in Latin America.
“Mariel's murder represents the vulnerability of a woman who, when she reaches a place of power, suffers threats or circumstances.” Anielle Franco, sister and director of the Mariel Franco Institute, contextualized. “Progress has been made in arresting Mariel's material murderers, but I don't know if we can know the names of those who sent her to kill her,” said her friend Renata Souza and deputy of the Socialist Liberal Party (PSOL).
Mariel is a symbol of the murder of women in a conflict of power. In principle, it was believed that if women were empowered, they would no longer be killed, and their vulnerability was because they did not know how to defend themselves, but that power did not liberate them, but real power with weapons and money did not want to compete.
Mariel's body is spared as a threat that explodes in the eyes of others, shortening the distance between threat and fear, and getting used to it, but it becomes a shadow.The struggle illuminates his memory, and the same goes for political fireflies that prevent him from closing the sky for those who are not destined to win.
“Black women don't ask for approval from anyone. We're not going to go there. We don't back down. People don't give up, let alone black women.” Anielle Franco defined it on Twitter to support the candidate Francia Márquez Mina.
Isabel Sedano: The right to choose to be a mother
Maria Isabel Sedano Garcia is a lawyer, feminist, lesbian, and Quechua. She works in the organization Defending Women's Rights Defense (Demus), where she served as president between 2004 and 2009. She also served as the Women's Secretary General of the Former Department of Women's Social Development from August to December 2011.
She is in charge of a strategic lawsuit that brings justice to forced sterilization in the 1990s during the Alberto Fujimori administration. It was not about the choice of contraceptives, but a strategy for population and territorial control that did not respect women's decisions and informed consents.Ysabel told Infobae in Peru that “there were crimes against women, crimes against personal freedom, integrity, life, and health, which meant that many people died.
She emphasizes that after the Fujimori government, many women have been prescribed to be sterilized and violate their rights. “There were goals and quotas, and I emphasize that they must comply with them to perform tubal ligation and vasectomy. It is not possible to save lives in emergency situations without guaranteeing a health condition.”
Ysabel has powerful features and deep expression, she is as tender as the voice of a girl who never feels pain and an adult who does not stop hoping for love and justice. She wears a lilac dress with slippers through Huacas, a pre-Inca site in Lima, and walks between stages that show that history has progressed while progress is delayed and a pompon coloring a story that rejects linearity through its own fabric.
His eyes cry when he remembers the family and much more silence or punishment, she could not say that she was a lesbian. It's not that it bothers you, but the most important thing is that you can wish.And by contesting power, the desire is right.
The butterfly on the chest protects it among the hanging colors of those who put the diversity they deny in bed on the plate.And she also claims to be the pain of a trace of shame imposed by cultural racism. When shame was a form of submission, what you were was was not an option.
She is identified as Quechua, but does not speak Quechua. “I don't speak because I denied the possibility of speaking because of racism. It was Chola to speak Quechua in Lima and it meant that you would be discriminated against, so they couldn't speak Quechua. They couldn't recognize you as an Indian.”
Yasunaya Aguilar: Many Languages and Diverse Lands
Yasnaya Aguilar is a researcher of mixed culture and a fighter for multilingual culture. She did not know how to write her native language: ayuujk or mixe. The community is Ayutla Mixe, located in the northern highlands of Oaxaca. She received a language degree from the National University of Mexico and a master's degree in Hispanic languages.
“In 1820, 65% of the Mexican population spoke indigenous languages, but now only 6.5% speak indigenous languages.” As part of celebrating the International Year of Indigenous Languages at the National Congress of Mexico in 2019, Yásnaya Aguilar said.She believes that linguistics is personal, personal is political, and indigenous languages are not killed by the state.
In an interview with Palabra Publica, she criticized: “A country that has been publicly linguistic for a long time has changed its legal framework and created institutions, but it has no budget or vision. In fact, there is no political will, but there is a willingness to hold indigenous municipal festivals while the health system or judicial system remains strongly in a single language, and the inertia of how the country works does not allow anything else.”
Together with the director Gael García Bernal, she created a documentary series consisting of six short films called El Tema. She told the newspaper El Pais that “this issue is so urgent that it transcends partisan interest.” “Defending nature in this region of the world threatens certain interests. We can't talk about infinite growth, and we need to rethink the idea of development and progress.” “, says Yesnaya Aguilar.
Catalina Ruiz Navarro: Catalina pulls her green hair
Catalina was raised by her mother and grandmother. She was a rebel in her childhood as an heir to a strong, independent woman and a worthy heretic. The challenge she heard was: “Catherine, for God!” It was. It is his nickname on Twitter; however, there are so many attacks, persecutions or beliefs that it cannot be so exposed today.
Catalina has become a modern voice denouncing sexual abuse in Mexico (where she lives), Colombia (born in Barranquilla and leaving too much skin to dance at Carnival), Guatemala and Honduras. She was encouraged to say how she abused her allies and those who accused her of replicating the voices of women who did not dare to blame because they could be prosecuted, and not those who seem to be abusers.
Catalina wears a huge fruit ring and wears a red makeup.He has a nice pajamas and a sense of self-presence.She speaks as if she never stops seeing her and is a magnet in her Volcanicas video on Instagram.He believes in dancing with witches. This is how they think about alchemy, which speaks more than one thought and has a tradition of wisdom that goes beyond reasonable things.
It also renewed the obsolete and analog feminism, leaving a youthful, pop and modern mark. He also wrote women struggling to meet Penguin Books. She has met many people and is the center of the new rise of feminism in Latin America. And, like all drivers, she is also punished for what she created. She is also a columnist for the El Espetador newspaper in Colombia since 2008. She is the director of the volcano and creadora camp and one of the founders of the Colombian feminist collective Viejas Verdes.
In a column, “Can men break the patriarchal treaty? Feminist analysis of sexual violence in men”, August 24, 2021, in the volcano “Where are feminists?” , they intend to be everywhere and say, “Why don't you blame something like that instead of blaming something else?” , when they try to keep silent on the claim that they should have talked about something else.
“When it comes to denouncing sexual violence against women, there is always something they ask of us. Why not talk about men who have become victims of sexual violence? And although it is a very good question, it is often asked maliciously because the purpose of asking that question is to change the subject of the conversation by “showing a lack of consistency” in the actions of whistleblowers and feminists.
“It is called 'whataboutism' in English, and it is an error that is one of the many advertising hominem errors that try to attack people in order not to refute arguments in the classical logic 'tu quoque'. How interesting it would be if those who ask this question really want an answer. Men are also victims of sexual violence, so there is no space to talk about it, and collective silence helps the aggressor. Sexual violence is an abuse of power. Men are most susceptible to this type of violence when they are young, for example, when they have the least power.” “, explains Catalina Ruiz Navarro.
“In adolescence, things begin to change. Men begin to receive the power that the patriarchy has prepared for them, and later many people abuse that power by being harassed by themselves,” he explains. “However, this reality does not respond to the fact that humans are inherently evil, but because men are the ones who most often have power over others.”
Elisa Roncon: Mapuche with a bulky curriculum
Elisa Loncón was elected in July 2021 as chairman of the Constitution of Chile to draft a new constitution (96 votes). The news has spread all over the world because she is a teacher, linguist and mapuche activist. She also received a PhD in linguistics and academics from the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Santiago, and is an expert in bilingual intercultural education.
She is also a professor of English at Temuco La Frontera University in Chile and has completed postgraduate studies at the Institute of Sociology in The Hague (Netherlands) and Regina University in Canada. He holds a master's degree in linguistics from the Autonomous University of Iztapalapa Metropolitana, UAM-I (Mexico).
My mother was a housewife and loved poetry. And his father learned to read and write on his own. He has seven brothers. She talked about discrimination in academia. “I tried to set up a professional work team to present projects with non-indigenous people and had a very ugly experience. I've never questioned whether or not I forged my resume. I think it's a matter of absolute racism. They told me I had a 'bulky resume'. They couldn't believe it was my resume. Racism negates human abilities.” He spoke in the Zoom Newen book by Editorial Lom.
However, when he assumed the Constituent Presidency (a position that he no longer holds), he resigned it as a collective victory. “I am grateful for the support of the different coalitions that gave trust and dreamed of giving trust to the calling of the Mapuche state to vote for the Mapuche people, women, to change the history of this country.” I said that.
Loncón, when elected, said: “This is the dream of our ancestors and this dream comes true. Brothers and sisters, companions can rediscover this Chile and establish relations between the people of Mapuche, the original country and all the countries that make up this country.
“The politics of fear is also installed a lot, so we can talk to us so that they do not fear us; that is, candidates for indigenous Mapuche are installed and there are many prejudices; therefore, this is also a call to move away from our prejudices and establish relationships on an equal footing.” He explained in an interview with La Tercera.
Taliria Petron: The Revolution of Daughters
Taliria Petron is a federal deputy for parliamentary socialism (PSOL) in Rio de Janeiro. She is a history teacher, young, black, mother, and feminist. She was threatened with death. This is because her portrayal poses a threat to power. The legislator reported on his Twitter account: “The federal police have been informed about the plans against me, but the government is ignoring the safety of elected members of Congress,” the government defends her in Brasilia, but not in Rio de Janeiro.
Life is at risk and when life runs, women are also at risk of being criticized: To be a mother and work, not to stop working, and not to stop breastfeeding. Taliria symbolizes almost any place where putting the body makes a difference. In a session that deals with the privatization of Eletrobras (Brazil's largest electricity company), held in June 2021 in Congress, Taliria gave a passionate speech against privatization. The daughter took it in her arms and settled her breast milk without stopping talking. It was fed.
In it there are many people who feel, talk and feel the hunger and interest of the baby, without acting or taking care of it. However, on the networks, his gestures were criticized by some as “unnecessary” or asked why he did not leave somewhere or went to the milk farmer.
She replied to Twitter: “And who do you propose to let my daughter work together for more than 10 hours?” . The female representative works, but is not considered a worker.There is no maternity leave.Therefore, it is a political, labor, and trade union act for Taliria and her daughter to attend Congress.
“We are studying the issue of political motherhood. Because the space is designed to exclude women.” Women have to tow other people, often daughters and sons, in order not to arrive alone, but to do politics, it is a form of therapeutic duty.
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