FUNDACION PUEBLO INDIO DEL ECUADOR
Established by Bishop Leonidas Proaño
fpie@fundacionpuebloindio.org
LAND, LAND AND HUMANITY ... ... JUST BE (Part I)
A Vision for the destruction of Mother Earth and Good Living from the indigenous peoples of Guatemala.
wind speaks of Mother Earth!
My heart beats like a great big drum, as the drums play the original peoples!
Other interrupt my heartbeat
My belly no longer works well, is upset by so much pollution that make me swallow!
My head nearly explodes causing pain in my body and my bones they extract the gold and all minerals!
I can not think and believe that I have bad children. Nevertheless, I try to walk, work day and night, all the time, almost no rest!
acknowledge that I have good sons and daughters to feed me, to caress me and give me smells!
why I have the confidence to be cured, recuperate, recover and reconstitute!
(Words of Mother Earth.)
1. "Urge the reconstitution of Mother Earth"
defy How many rivers? How many defy the lakes, seas, wind, clouds, forests, mountains, volcanoes, valleys, canyons ...? ... Industrial waste they do ... They challenge Junrakan spirit of hurricanes, acting in response to the cries of Mother Earth. Challenge to all living species in all of Mother Nature!
People who get offended ... It offends the spirit of mother earth, with the exploitation, extraction of chemicals, acids, poisons, and others. Offend the spirits all workers of Mother Nature and the cycles of time. Industrial litter everywhere including the space around the Earth's atmosphere! All in the name of so-called development! Those few dehumanize, are denatured and today her eyes only see "material resources" wealth, markets, consumers. Those few say they are developed and developed and create models of development and impose on poor countries. But ... sleep with nightmares and get up creating religions and armies to silence opponents. The cycles of time and Mother Nature are all broken, but not of its own, our grandmothers and grandfathers have been healing wounds, destruction, destruction, but they also have challenged those few.
balance, harmony, the interplay of all beings in the micro and the macrocosm, have been our permanent occupation, attending various ancestral forms. Today!, Now call on humanity to act immediately to reconstruction, the restoration and rebuilding of the lives of all Mother Nature, using the reconstruction and application of "cosmovivir" cosmosentir based on the cosmosaber to reestabler the cosmoestar and generate cosmocimiento. The
cosmocimiento resurgence of indigenous peoples "as a matter of knowledge be attributed solely to the humano_" knowledge is power and power is to dominate. Speaking of Cosmocimiento assume that thinks and acts an insect, a tree thought to Grandfather Sun thinks and acts as indigenous people we talk to them, they speak to us and give us your lessons. Means cosmocimiento, cosmosentir, cosmosaber es para la reconstrucción del cosmoestar, siendo la gran enseñanza para salvar al mundo. Al mismo tiempo los pueblos originarios exigimos que esos cuantos reparen todos los daños ocasionados a la vida de la madre Naturaleza. 2. La historia de saqueo en nuestro territorio comienza desde la invasión.
La invasión española fue una de las catástrofes colectivas más conmovedoras y largas ocurridas en América. Genocidio y etnocidio fueron a la par de la implantación violenta de la cultura occidental sobre las culturas indígenas. Se desarticularon los sistemas sociales de estos pueblos y se saquearon sus recursos. Con la invasión española was submitted to the indigenous people, then get the riches of his slave labor and servitude. In 1492 America had about 80 million people, of those, some 65 million correspond to the territory that later became Latin America. Century and a half later the population had fallen to 5 million, which would mean that disappeared 60 million people, or 400 thousand deaths per year.
However, the Maya remained, throughout the years, a strong resistance so that, from 1524 to 1898, have been recorded in Mayan lands, 209 uprisings and rebellions. Women were most affected by the ruthless English invasion. Al end of the battle, every battle, every town razed, women, regardless of rank, suffered the brutal impact of multiple rapes and mass of the conquerors. With culture shock imposing a single god, represented as a man, old and white before the customs and original worldview. A woman is accused of embodiment of evil, their nakedness everyday natural, since the English company came very repressive body. The grandparents of our traditional medicine healers and knowledgeable about the medicinal properties of plants were accused of witch. Deteriorated living conditions and subjected to overexploitation work as slaves and women as concubines of the invaders. In this way it became possible to miscegenation, which was not the product of a conscious and voluntary act of building a new world, but the result of massive and violent sexual assaults committed against indigenous women.
The English moved to America for its culture of discrimination and subordination. Transferred diseases and infections. English rule changed the fate of indigenous peoples, because not only subjected to looting and plundering of their wealth, slave labor and servitude, but their structures were moved backward in Europe, to the colonies.
3. The story continues ...
From the English invasion, the colony to the present day, history has been full of government intervention and foreign companies. The looters are those of the past but now called the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and mining companies, oil companies and others who seek appropriate today Mother Nature. International agencies and corporations are descendants of the ancient looters of our country, are responsible for dictating the policies followed by the various governments, such as free trade outdated for the Americas and Association Agreement with the European Union, not are only agreements comerciales que pretenden abrir mucho más las puertas de nuestro país a las empresas transnacionales para que se adueñen de nuestros bienes naturales. Esas medidas únicamente aumentan la pobreza, la desigualdad y la injusticia. La amenaza entonces es con la explotación minera y petrolera, hidroeléctricas y la construcción de mega proyectos turísticos, la expansión de los monocultivos como la caña de azúcar o la palma africana y la apropiación de las riquezas naturales, que por generaciones hemos cuidado. Las empresas están desarrollando un nuevo despojo organizado y ejecutado por terratenientes y empresarios nacionales y transnacionales.
Son los Tratados de Libre Comercio y los mega proyectos los que destruyen ecosystems, generate poverty, hunger, migration, crime, violation of rights of Mesoamerican and especially indigenous people, and exploit cheap labor. But are these, together with the lack of food sovereignty, threatening the health of people poisoning the soil, plants and people, encouraging multiple diseases. And is that health is a fundamental right of peoples and not a commodity. Even more, we believe that health depends on the health of the Earth.
must recognize that the struggle of indigenous peoples has also been historically and has had several moments in which the power of the wealthy and foreign nationals have been rejected, during the Indian uprisings like that of Athanasius Tzul and hundreds of others, during the Revolution from 44 to 54 time of the first Agrarian Reform which was later annulled by the rulers paid by the gringos who removed the Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán power and also with the great uprising of peoples and communities that developed with the Popular Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Peace Accords.
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