Yo También Puedo (So Can I)
Series: Llegando de los Pueblos (Arriving from the Villages)
From: Megan Martin
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Piece Description
María crossed the border between Mexico and the U.S. for the first time at 18 years old. Her tiny feet take her step-by-weary-step across the dusty, pockmarked desert, as she piles herself—“like a tamale”—into a van headed east. There, she launches herself onto the bus-strewn pavement of Orlando, Florida. It’s a story that’s not quite sure it’s got a happy ending.
Broadcast History
Current and ongoing broadcast on XETLA, La Voz de la Mixteca, and indigenous station run by the Comisión para el Desarollo de los Pueblos Indígenas (CDI), in Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca.
Transcript
Silence.
A girl speaking Mixteco fades up. Her sister translates. The two voices intertwine to tell the story…
The day came that I decided to leave because people had been arriving and telling me about there. Over there it’s beautiful, you know. And what’s more, they’re arriving and constucting their houses; they’re bringing their trucks, you know. For that reason, one day I told myself I would go. I borrowed 20,000 pesos.
And from there I started; I left.
Walking fades up
We started walking, and just walking we started getting scared. I was scared because our Coyote kept telling me to pass over this hill, or that grassy flat—and the thing is, you have to jump over a bunch of fences. And we couldn’t make any noise, because that’s how they find you, they grab you, and then return you.
And that day Immigration did find us and they returned us.
I didn’t want to try again....
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Additional Credits
This piece was created in fulfillment of a Fulbright-García Robles fellowship, administered by COMEXUS.
