Hello friends,
So I returned to San Salvador from Santa Rosa de Lima this morning. It was such an amazing time. Hot, so hot (one of the delegates got heat-stroke and had to go back to San Salvador)
And now . . . an FMLN government for El Salvador. It´s hard to believe, and my sense is that people are still processing things, the possibilities. Again I have very little face-to-computer time, but a thorough description of yesterday´s events is forthcoming.
Here is one of the many things people in Santa Rosa de Lima told me yesterday:
Luis, 52 yrs, Electrician: For twenty years we have been sold into poverty. Our electricity was sold, our health, our public services. Our families have moved away and many many of our children have completely fallen into trouble because there have been no jobs and no self-respect, no self-determination. Now maybe we have the chance to take our lives back. A million people have been working twenty years, under threat of death, for this.
The Colima Project
Colima ('where the water twists" in the Nahuat indigenous language) is a rural town of 500 families 45 minutes north of San Salvador on the northern spur of the Pan American highway in El Salvador. Each year, artists, students and educators from The Colima Project at San Francisco State University spend a month living, working and collaborating with the families of Colima and visiting artists and professionals from El Salvador and elsewhere in Central America.
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