Occupation: Author Birth: January 9, 1959
Impunity should be condemned in any corner of the world..
Not even anthropologists or intellectuals, no matter how many books they have, can find out all our secrets..
... only those of us who carry our cause in our hearts are willing to run the risks..
No less characteristic in a democracy is social justice. This demands a solution to the frightening indexes of infant mortality, of malnutrition, lac….
What I treasure most in life is being able to dream. During my most difficult moments and complex situations I have been able to dream of a more ….
I am like a drop of water on a rock. After drip, drip, dripping in the same place, I begin to leave a mark, and I leave my mark in many people's hear….
I wasn't the only orphan in Guatemala. There are many others, and it's not my grief alone, it's the grief of a whole people..
The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor..
I resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There is no excuse ….
We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism..
Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because weexi….
To be a light to others you will need a good dose of the spiritual life. Because as my mother used to say, if you are in a good place, then you can h….
unless a religion springs from within the people themselves, it is a weapon of the system..
... our reality teaches us that, as Christians, we must create a Church of the poor, that we don't need a Church imposed from outside which knows not….
I wish that a conscious sense of peace and a feeling of human solidarity would develop in all peoples..
We have learned that change cannot come through war. War is not a feasible tool to use in fighting against the oppression we face. War has caused mor….
This is why Indians are thought to be stupid. They can't think, they don't know anything, they say. But we have hidden our identity because we needed….
In my opinion, peace has not come to America, to Nicaragua, or to El Salvador. A hungry people is a people without peace. If the demands of the peopl….
I would get up in the morning and I would say, "How am I going to bother them today?".
The Mayas, our grandparents, always said; every human being occupies a small piece of time. Time itself is much longer, and because of this they alwa….