Posts Tagged ‘michoacan’

“Fue así. Llegaron los productos industrializados y empezamos a consumir. Antes nuestras mujeres bajaban caminando cuatro horas a la ciudad e intercambiaban tortillas y fruta. Antes se practicaba el trueque. Ahora hace falta dinero para todo”.

Mrs. Luisa is in the same chair, the same day of the year and before the same photos that he has been praying since one by one they were leaving. Since then, the night of 1 November, she pampers her altar, place your photos and light candles to show your dead the way, the way back home. We are in Pátzcuaro, Michoacán.

All of Michoacan Mexican Basque carried Quiroga in the heart. Wherever you go, and Tata Vasco, as the Indians called him-tata in Tarascan means father-, is here a figure of the first order, one Spanish that five centuries after his death is revered by the coexistence model that established the utopia inspired by Thomas More. In Spain, however, is a great unknown.