Update

I have so much to say. Too much to say for the time I have right now. Tomorrow we are leaving for the campo to stay two days in a region in which there are hardly any young people left because they have immigrated.

I have been getting around 5 hours of sleep every night for a week. This is due to constant traffic noise, uncomfortable beds, yelling french kids and two drunk guests that broke the door trying to get into the hostal last night.

Two little sleep mixed with an emotional journey learning about economic hardships, blatant discrimination and political violence that give rise to conditions of immigration in Mexico and central american countries ...mixed with that fact that I just learned that Rusty, our beloved dog and Tilly´s best friend is no longer with us, mixed with thinking about the too short life that Kerry led...when he could have done so much to help the people I am meeting with...yes, today has been an especially tear-filled day.

We have had a full week meeting with people who are telling us their stories. Some inspiring -- like the illiterate farmer with a fourth grade education who engineered wells in order to retain water in a region that would be waterless if he hadn´t. He could be rich if he were in the U.S. Some heartbreaking -- Too bad the big corporation building a mine in this farmer´s land will probably be taking this water...

Or like the age 17- 25? El Salvadorian who is on a great journey for the second time to the U.S, facing conditions I could never in my life imagine. If he doesn´t make it this time he said, he will just go back to his family and probably starve to death with them. The situation in El Salvador he said is dire and the U.S. who has purchased El Salvador has done nothing for the people. He hates Obama because it is even harder now to cross the border thanks to him.

Please keep me in your thoughts. I need the strength of others who also believe that all people deserve to be treated in a just and humane manner. With all of our technological advancements it is so easy to be lost in our own world. Don´t forget that we live in this world with others and that our lives are all connected in one way or another.