Cuando la Fuerza Abandona para Uno (When strength abandons you)
Series: Llegando de los Pueblos (Arriving from the Villages)
From: Megan Martin
Length: 00:08:31
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Piece Description
“I got to a point where I couldn’t find the group; I had gotten behind. I could see them—but only from a distance. So I remained there, crumpled there.”
This is the story of a man’s failure. When Irineo Sánchez decided to make the dangerous journey from his small village in San Agustín Tlacotepec to the United States of America no one told him what toll it could take, especially for a middle aged man. This is, as Irineo says, “a sad story.” “Because it was sad.”
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
Cuando la Fuerza Abandona a Uno – Translation
Irineo: My name is Irineo Sánchez Herenández, from here in the Mixteca, from San Agustín Tlacotepec. I am 52 years old. And this is my sad story, because it was sad…
Music fades in
I: My story is a sad one because I left my village with illusion to head to the United States to better my life, and the life of my family. In the journey from here to the border, there were no problems. The problems start once you cross over the border into the United States.
We arrived in Ciudad Juárez, and from there went on to Palomas. And from Palomas they took us in an old truck to a place, a really solitary place. Walking—well, we got there in another truck—we arrived there in the middle of the night in the desert. We started off there because Immigration, Immigration was watching the border really tightly. So, we waited a day, and on the second...
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Musical Works
| Title | Artist | Album | Label | Year | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chao de Estrellas | Baden Powell | Woman On Top. | Sony Music Entertainment | 2000 | 01:32 |
Additional Credits
This piece was produced in fulfillment of the Fulbright-García Robles fellowship, administered by COMEXUS.
