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The Widow
 
Well, to me the dirtiest and hardest is when somebody claims to the person who has suffered a loss... they don't listen... that he certainly was involved in something that he shouldn't have been... there is no justice... to me that's the worst.  
 
     Not to respect a person's right to think differently, to feel that it is necessary to change a situation, to me that's the worst. Because you have a right to want to... and to fight for... Because we remain in ignorance, in a tremendous poverty, and when someone fights to change that, he is massacrated, tortured, and afterwards there is no justice. To me that's very hard.  
 
     It also grieves me as a wife and a mother to know that my son has lost his dad, that his dad is no more. It grieves me deeply, too, to know that if his father had been alive, everything would have been different. That grieves me as a mother and a wife, and I know that he is grieved too.  
 
     As a family we sit here in the middle of all this as if there were no solution, and that hurts too, and he is grieved because his father passed away, and we don't know what this means politically... how this is possible when people are fighting to get out of their ignorance, their underdevelopment, and right away others appear because they don't like it, and they stop and kill this initiative, this creativity.  
 
     To me that is the worst of all, to want to keep a people in ignorance, in poverty. That's not just, that's not just. I'm deeply grieved by that.  
 
 
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