In Mexico, we learn early that we have to be careful.
They teach us that our freedom is limited,
That the streets are dangerous,
That we must hide our bodies.
It’s normal.
In Mexico, since we’re little, they teach us to be afraid.
Girls disappear and women are raped.
In Mexico a rapist can run for governor.
11 feminicides a day.
In Mexico it’s normal.
We grow up normalizing fear.
Fear of the streets, fear of the police, fear of the government.
It’s normal.
The police rape us.
The prosecutor’s office revictimizes us.
Institutions abuse us.
The government makes us invisible.
It’s normal.
In Mexico we learn that the colour of our skin defines us,
That our bank account determines us,
That language belongs to men,
And that we must shut up.
What clothes were you wearing?
How many drinks did you have?
Why were you walking alone?
Today we will not shut up.
Today we will not stop.
Today we demand justice.
It’s not normal.
The streets are ours.
The fight goes on.
In every single house.
And in every single body.
It’s not normal.
Today we march virtually for those who are still here and those who are no longer here.
Today we fight against normalized violence.
Today in Mexico, let’s unlearn what they teach us.
Let’s claim our own language that belongs to all.
Let’s raise our voice and demand answers
For those who are still here and those who are no longer here.
Feminicide in Mexico.
It’s not normal.
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We are Alumbra, Básicos de México, Fábrica Social, Faro, Gag, Trama Studio y Transforma MyM
We demand justice for those who are still here and those who are no longer here.
Denormalize violence in Mexico
#Desnormalicemoslaviolencia
#8M #8M2021
#MexicoFeminicida
#AbortoLegal
#UnVioladorNoserágobernador
#NiUnaMas
#NiUnaMenos
#FuimosTodas
This text was written by Virginie Martin-Onraët, who produced the video with her friends and associates from different Mexican organizations. Editing: Cecilia González Barragán. Production: Cecilia González Barragán, Paola González Rubio and Virginie Martin-Onraët.
Yesterday in Mexico City, the police gassed the protesters during the march for Women’s Day. Today, the government says “Gasses? No. never.”
The featured image I found on the Internet. “Ni una menos” means “Not one (woman) less” and refers to the constant violence against women in the country.
Let’s keep on fighting.
Equinoxio 
Terrifying, but needs to be said.
I know I am lucky to be born in Canada, where women’s rights, although not perfect, exist.
Thank you for this.
BTW, there is no Featured Image, that I can see.
Strange. There was one. BTW, my daughter is in the video around 47seconds, and second to last at the end. (And many of her friends whom we know well.)
Virginie Martin-Onraët? Your daughter? I read that text and paused. It was an eye-opener.
Yes, she is. That text and video are very strong. (You can see her around 48or 49seconds, and the one before last I think).
She has developed quite an expertise in recent years on gender-related issue. Works for NGO’s as a consultant across Latin America.
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I reblogged it. Horrifying the way women are FORCED TO LIVE BECAUSE OF MEN.
Thanks for the reblog. The situation is bad. Not just here, all across Latin America
It’s everywhere. Women are never safe anywhere.
There used to be places or times. But not’ny more. Makes me mad to tell you the truth.
If you care to watch the video, link is now up. It’s in Spanish, but it’s important to watch those young women.
Chilling
It is. Thanks for your visit and comment. All well?
All is well. As well as can be expected, I hope the same for you too
🙏🏻
“Chilling” is the right word for it.
Yep.
They are right, it is not normal and has to stop!
She and her friends are working hard in that direction. But it is so hard sometimes.
BTW, the video is now up. I screed up a bit there.
Thank you for being a feminist, Brieuc, and sharing this important message.
It’s just a small contribution.
Every bit counts. And it means a lot coming from a man.
I understand. Though I’ve always been like that. Education I guess. (And I always assume, wrongly perhaps, that many men feel and act the same) (Point in fact, in my company I probably hired 60-70% women. They were better. And there was no salary difference. I was actually tempted to pay men less! 🤣
That’s a great education. My guy is like that, too. I think when you are raised around women, your thinking is automatically different. And hey…. great that your company hired more women 😉 We get it done!
👍🏻
Thanks for visiting Dale. Tout va bien chez toi?
Thanks for sharing. Et oui, Toujours pogné avec notre couvre-feu – juste à Montréal et les rives sud et nord – tellement tannant. Mais. Whatever. Life goes on and we deal!
Pogné? Je connais la pogne. Vieil argot. Je connaissait aussi “tanné”. Il y a une chanson de Beau dommage, chais plus laquelle: “Chuis tanné…”
Et ouais, on fait ce qu’on “pneu” comme disait Michelin… 😉
Haha! J’te fais pratiquer ton québécois 😉 Beau Dommage… Blues d’la métropole, peut-être? https://youtu.be/tat2V97FYqE?t=7
Mais qu’est-ce qu’un gars peut faire
Quand y a pu l’goût de boire sa bière
Quand y est tanné de jouer à mère
Avec la fille de son voisin?
😉
Je vais vérifier mes 33 tours…
Partage! Suis curieuse…
J’ai trouvé. J’ai 2 LP’s. Oú est passée la noce. Chanson “Amène pas ta gang”: ‘Chus tannée d’me faire accroire”. Et les paroles dont je me rappelais sont: “chus tanné d’entendre le bruit des vagues”, dans “tous les palmiers, tous les bananiers”, album de ’74, où ils sont tous debout sur la couverture avec un fonds de briques et sépia. Deux très bons albums.
Woo hoo! Tu sais, je n’ai pas d’albums d’eux mais je connais presque toutes les tounes… 😉
J’imagine. Ils étaient très populaires en France quand j’étais étudiant. Mais chez toi ça doit maintenant être un monument national. 😉
Ils étaient très populaires lorsque j’étais étudiante aussi 😉
Certains, Oh que oui.
Pas trouvé. Le Blues de la métropole est une bonne chanson aussi.
Zut de flûte! Oui, elle est bonne. J’adore Paul Piché aussi – quand il n’est pas trop politique! Harmonium, etc… (Suis une vieille de c’t’époque là!)
Connaîs pas Piché par contre. “Une vieille”? Ha! ne m’en faites pas accroire chère amie. 😉
Ahhh.. Tiens… une belle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg_kqc5Vn2k
Vous me vousvoyez, mon cher, alors vous reconnaissez que je ne suis pas une ‘tite jeune!
Belle chanson. Merci. Celui-là je l’ai “loupé” à l’époque. Et le vouvoiement? C’t’une blague. (Ma tante vousvoyait ses enfants. Et elle engueulait en leur disant “vous”. Elle était d’un snob!)
Bye
En effet. Je l’ai eu dans la tête il y a deux semaines et next thing I know, j’étais en mode québécois – mes gars ne comprennent rien. Je me souviens d’une chum très anglophone qui a sorti avec un québécois. On était chez lui lors de la fête de la St-Jean et elle me regardais, toute abasourdie lorsque je criais pour du Plume Latraverse, du Offenbach, etc. “Who are you?” LOL…
Et je le sais que tu blaguais.
Ciao!
Le fait est que pour nous Français, quand les Québecois s’y mettent, on a un peu de mal à comprendre. Le rythme. Le vocabulaire. “Accroire”pour nous c’est du “vieux Français” qu’on peut lire dans Racine ou Molière. Et les mots comme “ma blonde”, “Mon chum” (pis moué) 😉 Personnellement j’adore. Il faut que j’aille à Québec un jour… 🙏🏻
Ouais… je n’ai pas encore eu l’expérience de “dealer” avec des français en France. Mais j’ai eu “ouie-dire” que ce n’est pas toujours évident. Ma blonde et mon chum (au lieu de ma copine, mon copin, mon amoureux, etc.) pis moé pis toé (disons que je n’utilise pas souvent ce moé et toé). En tout cas, mon Brieuc… si tu viens à Montréal, tu me fais signe!! Je suis une guide par excellence 😉
Les Français sont très, très mauvais avec les langues. Chum, c’est de l’anglais. Et il ya beaucoup d’emprunts. Plus de vieilles expressions que les Français ne connaissent plus.
Guide? bBnco. Avec plaisir. Bon week-end.
La vidéo est “réparée”, si tu veux la voir.
Merci! Je vais aller fouiner!
Gracias. No es normal…
No. No es normal!
Thank you for sharing Virginie Martin-Onraët’s words today. Gives me hope to know that people care about the bad situation and are working to change it.
Glad to share. (You she’s my daughter, right?)
Aha, thanks for clarifying. I did not.
You’ll get a chance to “meet” my daughter. Around 48s. Cuídate.
48s? In your book?
Haha. No she’s not in the book.
Ah, en el video!
Eso!
El video ya funciona Rebe. Una disculpa. Creo que te va gustar.
Gracias, con mucho gusto. Ella dijo que “el lenguaje es de los hombres”, entre muchas cosas más, verdad?
Sipi. Well she wrote the text. Then every participant read the text. In their own house! Luego se editó y seleccionó los mejores segmentos de cada una. Conozco a muchas. Lo hicieron muy bien. Gracias por “regresar”.
Buena escritora. Si, el video fue impactante, una buena protesta. Creo que las mujeres de todos los países pueden identificarse con los problemas indicados, por lo menos nosotras de los EEUU si.
Creo que todas. Efectivamente.
Powerful words, the world is waking up to this stuff, in Australian jails rapists are treated as scum. Keep up the good work. Best wishes. -Christo
Thank you for your visit and comment. Take care.
Government officials lie? Surely not….ha!
The way I see it these days, no government anywhere can be trusted.
I know, I know. I was raised in… a few dictatorships in the South. And I had the illusion that in some places, Europe for instance, some peace had been achieved… Well, I have rot revise my opinion. Having said that, many organizations, worldwide, are taking action. That is good.
Le texte est effrayant… mais le monde actuel est effrayant… Ce matin c’est encore un sentiment de gueule de bois en écoutant les nouvelles…
(Pour info, tu as mis un lien qu’on ne peut pas ouvrir. La vidéo?)
Cheers to staying alive!
Stay safe my friend.
Le monde actuel est effrayant. C’est vrai. Et un peu déprimant. Je vérifie le lien. C’est curieux, ici, pas de souci pour l’ouvrir. Je checke. A + Véro.
Le lien envoie vers ton drive Google qui demande mon nom pour autorisatiion !
Ouais. chuis désolé. En fait elle a présenté sa video Lundi, et dans la rapidité de traduire le texte et de faire le post, j’ai un peu “m.rdé” sur le link! 🤪
T’inquiète! Voilà qui est rétabli. Merci pour le partage 😉
Pas de quoi. On aimerait parfois partager des choses plus gaies. Biz. A+
Le lien est changé. En principe tu dois pouvoir voir la vidéo. Le texte est en “Espingo” mais c’est celui que j’ai traduit en Anglais.
Au top! Je fais suivre la vidéo à ma fille de 16 ans de suite (bébé militante féministe!).
Haha. Bébé militante? Super.
Heartfelt…it happens here too Brian…Montreal Massacre…MMIWG…and behind closed doors…Alberta has a history of violence towards women…I’ve worked on these issues…we can do better! 😩 I’m so jaded 🤓 thanks for sharing this Brian ~ hugs hedy 🤗
It is terrible. Did you manage to see the video? It seems there was a problem with the link. Now it’s fixed. Hugs back. Brian
This is utterly moving. The scenes from the Protests against violence towards women on Mexican streets are shocking, the kettling of protesters by police and use of tear gas. I see the strapline of 130% rise in femicide 2015-20. Also today in the news, 1 in 3 (35%) of women worldwide have experienced violence, mainly from a (male) partner. Thank you for getting behind the fight. Such a long way to go.
It is a long way to go. To me it is even worse, going to College in the 70’s, I thought this was behind us. It ain’t. Sadly.
Question? could see the video? There was sthg wrong with the link.
I am too young to know the mood in the 1970s, but I sense that whilst there was a long road ahead, there was optimism. Fifty years later and still facing many of the same challenges, it is harder to have that optimistic view.
I watched footage through another media, there is footage on YouTube, for example.
The 70’s were a continuation of the 60’s. The 60’s had seen Independence from the Colonial powers. There was the Civil Rights Act. Blacks were free, finally, in America. The flower movement broke down many old rules and rigidities. In 67-68, my father was a pain in the… So, that’s why there was so much hope. Then came the 80’s, with Michael Douglas and Wall St, and it all went down the drain. 🤣
Having said that, I believe we are now in a black swan. (See Taleb) It can be a tremendous opportunity to change a lot of things… Fingers crossed. 🤞
And yes, I imagine you are too young to have experienced that. The feeling, late 60’s, early 70’s was exhilarating.
There was a low starting base, but history indicates at least in the west, that women’s issues made leaps and bounds forwards. Since then, it feels like one step forward and two back. We had an example here in UK over the weekend. It’s often the small day-to-day things, the ‘being mildly patronised’ continually at work, for instance – doesn’t sound a big deal, but it is cumulative.
“Mildly patronized”. Grrr. I guess i might grab a – figurative – gun… There are serious steps back in every area. Women. Democracy. The rule of Law. Just about everybody seems to have forgotten Montesquieu, and I think it was your Locke?
John Locke advocated equal rights for all within a governed society. Not sure what extended to women in that credo. Evidently, he did say ‘Motherhood becomes not an obstacle to equality.’ Enlightened for the 17th century, I guess.
Indeed. Montaigne, a tad earlier, put women and chidren in the same basket, so to speak. My mother could not get a private bank account without her husband’s consent in France until the late 70’s if I recall.
Not sure it was Locke I was thinking about. lemme go back to my (Lord) Russell.
I thought it mught be Hume, but, no, It was Locke who put forward the “checks and balances” doctrine. Which Montesquieu developed in “L’esprit des lois”. Strangely enough Russel has a chapter on Locke, one on Hume and another on Rousseau, and none on Montesquieu or Voltaire. (I’m definitely more a Voltaire man myself.) 😉
(Love our chats. Hopefully, one day we can a have beer or two to support those reflexions)
Be good Libre.
Gini has always been a fighter for the good. Evil has ruled for too long in this world, it’s time to take it down for good.
Apart from the occasional imbecil, here by us women have always been treated with respect, at least in public. Too bad we are all indiscriminately treated as criminals by default now, by our own government(s), because of the NWO.
There is no image in the article, and the link to the G evil asks people to create an account before they can access the contents. You probably see the video because your device keeps cookies and sees you permanently logged in to the G account, but those of us who don’t have (and don’t want) such account can’t reach it. Maybe try Dropbox and/or Vimeo, at least as alternatives.
Hi Dragos. Thanks for your visit and comments. And yes, I screwed up on the link. Fixed now. Hope all is well with you.
Yep, video is accesible now, got it.
Apart from the fact that I only got money to survive for about another month tops everything’s fine here. Well, and the fact that it really started snowing only after a week into March while the so-called winter was more like a late Autumn combined with sudden Spring bursts. No es normal… but then again what is normal anymore in this world lately…?
Cuídate, amigo! 😉
No es normal, efectivamente. Nothing is. I guess it’s what our grandparents felt when they sensed the world change radically before their eyes. In June 1940, my grandfather, who’d fought in WWI, wrapped his German Mauser rifle (war “trophy”) in greased rags and buried it at the back of his garden. Just in case. (My brother still has it)
Take good care of yourself too…
(And thanks for checking the video)
Too bad the american second amendmend is not valid out here.
Personally I wouldn’t mind at all about the world changing, even radically, if it were for the best. I mean for each and every living being – be it human or not – on this Earth. There would be straight signs of that, people would understand and approve of it. But as it is now, we only see terror from out own governments, laws to bring us into submission as if we were stupid rabid animals that need to be muzzled – and that ain’t fuckin’ right! Mucho mas no es normal en el mundo ahora!
The great wheel of Dharma might turning in the wrong sense? Take care.
Or maybe it just got stuck in the wrong position because someone put a huge stick between its spikes…
LOL. It must be something like that. Or since everything now is computerized, they had to reboot the wheel, and it’s not starting yet. Stay safe.
I’m always safe, mon ami, even if I never wear the muzzle. And I care more about you – all my friends across the world – than about myself. It has always been my credo: I can’t be happy until all the people dear to me are happy.
Please send my regards to Gini and tell her to be extremely careful as the bad guys don’t like to be poked at.
You’re a kind man.
And I agree with you. Gini and her friends and brave, but, I’m not sure I like so much exposure. Well. Someone has to do something, right?
Dunno…Changing the mentality, the traditions, the nature of an entire people is a huge task. Choosing the right angle – including the right allies – is critical, if that is ever to happen.
Allies. Yes. I don’t see many. So much apathy everywhere. Only a handful in France are raising their voice.
Allies must be in higher places where they have certain leverage over their peers. But I’m afraid that may just be a nice dream. I suspect those in higher places have already received copies of the Master Plan and agree with it, therefore trying to change their minds now may be an exercise in futility.
As for us at the lowest step of the pyramid, we have no chance whatsoever without the help of the law enforcement people, which seem to forget they are very little above us and do have families amongst us. I’m afraid the advice given by Étienne de La Boétie in his The Politics of Obedience: the Discourse of Voluntary Servitude (English version here:
https://cdn.mises.org/Politics%20of%20Obedience.pdf , see around page 47) doesn’t quite apply anymore, more so when people forgot how to think for themselves and have been completely devoided of the most basic human rights, all over the world.
Not familiar with that La Boétie. I am though with Milgram’s “Submission to authority”. Cheers.
I know about Stanley Milgram’s experiment and it’s a very good example of how ordinary people would behave in such environment. Enough to prove that self-reasoning does not happen in most ordinary people. As an aside, it’s at least strange that I can’t find any kind of copy of the movie starring William Shatner based on this experiment.
Adjacent to that is the Stanford prison experiment that further proves the deep dark side of the human being.
Captain kirk played in a recreation of Milgram’s experiment? Wow? I saw the original footage taken by Milgram. Our human relations teacher in grad school showed it to us. Amazing.
(And yes, the Stanford prison experiment. I can testify to that. I spent a week- nights- in a military prison. 7 days “arrêts de rigueur” bestowed on me by my stupid captain. The minute they turned the key on my cell door, I became a nobody. Though the guys manning the regiment jail were from the same regiment and knew. I was a prisoner. Until the next morning. very interesting. Should do a post one day.
Cheers.
Yep, maybe you should. The police that beat the crap out of us for not wearing the muzzle or whatever other stupid reason are our neighbors, our cousins or whatever. Stanford all the way.
Cpt. Kirk did star in such movie: The tenth level (1976), IMDb ID 0075320, but you won’t find it anywhere. Trust me, I’ve been hunting for it for a long long time.
I’ll look it up. Multumesc.
C’etait mon plaisir, chér ami 🙂
So this is what I missed out on while watching the video? Beautifully written by your daughter. It resonates deeply because growing up I did have somewhat similar circumstances and voices around me.
Also, I have returned. 🙂
Welcome back! Yes, this is what you missed out. Plus the fact that I had pasted the wrong link on the post. It was really a spur of the moment thing that we decided Monday night. barely time to put the post together.
Similar circumstances? Hmmm. Well, I hope it was too… harsh. I sometimes read sad stories about India. I would venture to say that young women there face an enormous challenge. You were a journalist in Delhi, weren’t you?
Dhanyavaad for visiting, ma’amji. Phir milenge.
🙏🏻
I realised that as soon as I gave it a read. I am glad you shared it. Indeed similar. It was harsh and Delhi was particularly bad. I have had terrifying experiences, and even now thinking about them gets me all het up.
I can imagine Delhi. Terrifying experiences in this day and age should be a thing of the past. ( I remember “The ministry of utmost happiness”. And what’s worse, I think is that even old Europe is getting violent again. I nearly got mugged in Paris 2 years ago. Now it seems many people are carrying a knife… In Paris!
Well. Stay safe.
Oh! I am astonished to hear that. Does not sound cool, but I would take my chance on Paris than Delhi, Brianji. 🙂
Agreed. Paris over Mexico too. But I was shocked about that inicident. Mid day in Le Marais. Didn’t see it coming. managed some evasive manoeuvers, and got out of it, but it was strange. I then had a drink at the nearest café. Told the waitress. Young woman in her 20’s. She told me: “happens all the time. I only work days. No way I’m gonna work nights, it gets worse.”
It is gobsmacking alright, only because I cannot imagine such a scenario in Paris, and Le Marais midday! Heavens. Whatever is the world coming to!
The eternal cycle of War, then Peace, then rising violence. Sadly.
It is eternal. Every age I think has the same worries as we do, I suppose.
I imagine. Though as a child of the fifties, the sheer madness and horror or WWII just fresh in the memories I thought we would remember forever. But we don’t. And everybody is ready to go at each other’s throats. Sad really. meantime stay safe. Phitrmilenge ma’amji.
It is a dismal thought, isn’t it? But at some point, we have to disconnect from the madness and take care of our own mental health. While we should be aware and do whatever is within our reach to further certain causes, the cares of the world cannot be ours.
Sending cheerful vibes, Brianji.
Agreed. One can only do what one can.
Chhers.
Heartbreaking, yet beautiful post, my friend. Tragically, this is the case in many countries, not just Mexico. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Thank you for sharing both the video and the heartbreaking words … we must do better … WE MUST! Sigh.
Yes, we must. As I look back to our youth, I wonder where and when it all went so bad. Not sure I understand.
I don’t know either, Brian, but it seems that these things … women’s rights, civil rights, voting rights … are all like a pendulum, the further it swings to one side, the further it will ultimately swing to the other until finally coming to rest at some mid-point.
Possibly. I still remember vividly the 70’s, how we would all be – finally – free. And Freedom remains one of my most important values in Life.
A pendulum or a wheel as Indians believe. The great wheel of Dharma.
How have you been? All well I hope?
Sigh. Yes, I well remember the 60s when we thought we were overcoming racism, then the 70s when we thought we had moved past ‘male dominance’, but today it feels as if both of those things have slid backwards. I don’t understand it … not one bit!
I’ve been okay … stressed, sleepless, exhausted, depressed, but hanging in. All is well otherwise and now that the weather is warmer, the crocuses are blooming, my heart is lifting just a bit! And you, my friend? Is all okay in your corner of the world?
Crocuses are wonderful and brave little beings. When all are still safely tucked away inside, they brave the snow, and say Hi.
Hang in.
🌺 😊
That this violence against women continues in Mexico is shocking to me. Brava to these young women for speaking out.
They’re all very talented, and brave.
Yes.
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Excellent post, my friend
Thank you my dear. All merit goes to the author. I just did a quick translation and copied the link she gave me. Things are not good here. Stay safe.
That was very powerful.
Creo que es el mismo por mujeres de ‘First Nations’ en los Estados Unidos. Our Indians.
(I don’t know how to switch my keyboard to Spanish.)
No sabía que hablabas Español. 👍🏻
This was a very powerful text and presentation by Daughter #2. She’s a development consultant specializing in gender issues.
keyboard. If y0u have a Mac I think it’s in system preferences.
It is a terrible situation
And growing. 😡
Also in Italy the problem of violence against women is growing: here, they are usually killed by a (former) partner
In Latin america and France too. So sad.
🙏😢🙏
Everywhere, here there have been mass protests over rape culture, violence and child abuse. I note in the UK there have been vigils, it appears that governments are refusing to act on anything but window dressing in regard to women’s health and needs. But media barons, drug cartels, corrupt politicians, they’re doing very well.
Window dressing seem to be the name of the political game lately. I just can’t believe what I’m seeing. All well Paul?
Very moving, Brian. A terrible problem. Violence against women exists everywhere, but sadly, a significant issue in Mexico. Thank you for supporting the movement to recognize women who are victims and to stop violence in the future.
I dislike violence. PLus, my daughter is neck deep in this, so I support her and all those efforts. We need a better world. Like yesterday! 🙏🏻
What a powerful and important film. You must be very proud of your daughter Brieuc.
Of course. Both of them. Looks like we must have done a few things right. The rest they did themselves. 👏🏻
many states of India are like that at present, more and more are joining them.
“Joining” to fight?
I’m coming late to this post Brian, and to this powerful narrative. I watched in disbelief as that fool Obrador put up barriers around the presidential palace and then defended his ‘record’ on women, and in horror as the 8th March march descended into violence and chaos. I worked on sexual and reproductive rights some years ago, including with many brave and tenacious feminist activists in Latin America. The cause doesn’t seem to have gotten any easier over those intervening years, but the sickening levels of violence against women, the denial of rights and opportunities, makes it critical to continue the struggle for justice. All power to daughter #2.
He’s a fool indeed. And a dangerous one. There is another issue right now on an “alleged” rapist candidate to Governor. (Mentioned in the video actually). The electoral tirbunal is blocked by the candidate’s troops.
So you worked in that area? I always thought you’d get along with my daughter. She’s doing work with Mali now. (You need a gender expert? Trilingual? She’s the one!) Sadly the situation in Latin America is not good, though there are a lot of people working in the right direction.
Cheers