OMG, it’s the last day of January 2012

I’m sitting at the airport in Guatemala waiting for the flight to Atlanta.  We spent part of the morning with Rigoberta Menchu Tum commemorating the death of her father, burned to death in the Spanish Embassy, 32 years ago today, along with 36 others.  There were two survivors, but one was taken away from his hospital bed, in serious condition with horrible burns.  His tortured body was found a few days later.  It was a very spiritual ceremony, perhaps even more so given the death of Rigoberta’s sister last week after several years of fighting cancer.

The first morning after the delegation arrived in Guatemala City, Liz and I went to Rigoberta’s house to pay our respects before the family took the body to her husband’s hometown for burial.  She read us a beautiful poem and tribute she’d written to her sister.  Rigoberta told us[...]

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