How Real Mexican Women Feel
Sunday, May 7, 2006
By David Yeagley
Recently, Bad Eagle has received mail from Mexico, from a village in the state of Guerrero--one of the three southernmost states of Mexico. It is worthy of note. There is a website connected with it, but it is currently shut down. The email from the leaders, however, is still coming to Bad Eagle. Please consider.
When our men went to the United States they were young and adventurous; They have had their adventure, now we want them to come home to us and to their families and to their home country. Close the border so that the ones who are here do not leave. We have work now and the men can help us to sand-down and polish the jewelry.
Our group is of women from the village of Tecalpulco. The tradition of our village is handcrafted fashion jewelry since the men have left, we women have organized a good business of fashion jewelry production in cottage industry. The men can help us, they don't have any excuse to stay [in America].
Thank you very much
from the hearts of the women
of Artesanas Campesinas
Rosalinda Mejia Baron
Eva Albavera Viveros, Contact Person
ealbavera@yahoo.com.mx
Telefonos:
001 762 62 73481
001 762 62 22758
It is a far, lonley cry, all the way from the farthest villages of Mexico. Tecalpulco is just north of Campuzano. It is a women's jewelry coop, known by business travelers. It is a great thing that this information was sent personally to BadEagle. Shall we not be encouraged in our responses to the Mexican problem?
Small family in Tecalpulco. No
man around? Photo: Internation
Dutch site, OneWorld.nl
Another letter came yesterday. Obviously, these letters are written by English-speaking representatives of the women of Tecalpulco, but the feelings of the village women come through quite strongly. The international translators of their feelings are certainly adequate.
We want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for acknowledging us as persons, we are so grateful that you recognize us for who we are, village women of Mexico.
We, the women in Mexico, are living under very depressed conditions for a long time. Most of the man [sic] in the villages have gone to the United States to work there and have left the women here with the children. At the beginning they were sending money but that was every 6 months or every year, and they weren't always sending us enough to cover our basic needs. Frequently, these men drop out of our sight all-together.
We are campesinas, we have our cornfields and do work them, but we have learned that in modern times we can't live off of them. We have to buy cooking gas, daily food, shoes for the children, school materials, etc. Now that the kids went into school again we barely got enough money to buy their uniforms and we are now working hard to pay the school every month and saving money to buy the rest of the materials that they need. It is impossible to live like this, yet we have no choice except to survive, even though we are inside a pattern where everything is costly.
We never asked anything from you, still we want to ask you to close the Mexico border to illegal migration because our men go north to get money and they remain up there sometimes with another woman and we don't like it; we want our men to be deported since they are breaking the laws. Please isn't there a way to have these men deportedback to their homes and families in Mexico? That would be the best to happen for us! because we need their help in sanding and polishing the jewelry we have been producing.
Thank you, thank you so much in the name of the Rural Artisans Women of Taxco!
Sincerely
Tamara Hernandez Danel
This information should not be considered privileged to Bad Eagle. It is for the world. It is for every American. It is for every Mexican. This entire immigration problem, this mass tresspassing movement, is based on the manipulations of the rich and the powerful. As we have noted before, the mighty are simply using the poor Mexicans. The enemies of America, within (Congress) and without (Arab Muslim terrorists) are using Mexicans. Mexican government leaders are using Mexicans. Mexican organized crime is using Mexicans.
So, as compassionate Americans, let's listen to the women of Tecalpulco. Think of them, and the millions like them, every time you see a Mexican tresspasser, and every time you even think he's an illegal. Call him on it. Ask him if he left a woman and children away down south in Mexico. It's the only macho thing to do, at this point. Confront them. Do it for their women's sake. If American patriotism is too offensive to the liberals, then the liberals should think fo the women, you know. What about women's rights, which the liberals are so loud about? Here's an opportunity to speak out.
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