Isolated indigenous peoples

Biographical / Personal

Explaining myself in September 2017 – An interview by Slow Words

Slow Words, an online medium published in Italy, choose to interview me with questions about my biography, my opinion about Latin American politics (a rather impossible question!), and our work with isolated indigenous groups through Iniciativa Amotocodie. One may be asked these same questions over and over again at different times in one´s life. I like being asked: it is an obligation to say again what has been explained before, only this is now, and the outcome always brings unexpected discoveries, and insights that are new, also to myself.

INSPIRATION FROM INDIGENOUS WORLDS

8th of March, 2010, in the North of the Gran Chaco

Written in 2010. Unluckily, this text has not lost its urgent actuality. With every year going by and with the continuation of the accelerated deforestation in the North of the Paraguayan Chaco, the menaces against the Ayoreo women and men, and the children and youths of the isolated groups, and against their world, have become more and more extreme.