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Tales from Colonia Popular (Paperback)
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Creative non-fiction or fiction, Tales from Colonia Popular seeks
to describe the lives of people the author met in a squatter
settlement in Mexicali, where she lived from 1988 to 1994. They are
meant to depict the struggles of the poor in the face of seemingly
overwhelming odds. They tell the stories of women who live in the
colonia, including a woman who received Special Agricultural
Workers' amnesty for working in the fields in the Imperial Valley
and Salinas, a woman who was the colonia's president, and a woman
who works in the maquiladora plants. They also tell stories of men
who live in the colonia, including a former garbage picker, a
drywaller who longs to give his family more than their income can
provide, and a young man who was a coyote's helper when he was a
child.
from "Only Chiapas? (1995)," a poem by the author
I have seen the best minds of five generations destroyed by
poverty
struggling naked moaning sobbing howling in despair . . .
Who dragged themselves through dusty streets at dawn searched for
a
way to survive laborers for others . . .
Who sowed hoed cut harvested tended sheep cattle
horses goats burros on haciendas from age seven or eight . . .
Who after 16 years of civil strife . . .
Who then joined their urban cousins some to live on lonely
brickyards
no electricity no fans no refrigerators no running water. . .
Some to invade unused lands to form squatter settlements
shanty towns colonias paracaidistas colonias perdidas
colonias populares to build shacks of tarpaulin scrapwood
cardboard crushed aluminum cans trashed by Budweiser and Cola
Cola
drinkers to tap the holes against the rain . . .
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