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The new wall

Stories and News No. 1147 Once upon a time there was a wall. You remember it, right? It come to light in August 1961. Read also as the disgraceful echo of two shameful stains in History that affects us all directly, in flesh, blood and memory: the world wars. Nonetheless, not the beginning, but the end of a conflict should teach something to the contenders, and especially the dead’s relatives. That is not a wall, we are all witnesses and heirs of it. Nonetheless, the line of suspicion and rivalry that separated Germany, and with it the world, in two necessarily opposing souls, it lived thirty years. In fact, in November 1991, preceded in the previous year by a memorable concert, its destruction began. However, it started just like that. Because this is how the life of the most excruciating walls works, which find the best glue between bricks in the most visceral suffering. They take shape in the short and when you least realize it you find yourself on the other side of ...

7-year-old Guatemalan girl at the border

Stories and News No. 1143 A 7-year-old girl from Guatemala died a few hours after being arrested on the US border. She was dehydrated and in a state of shock... Once upon a time there was a border and a girl child . Read her also as a precious glow traveling to the new world , which is a wonderful planet, cruel, and fascinating, after all. But it should be cursed, where it proves capable of dividing people on an imaginary line engraved on paper moved by fear of what matters most, for all of us, undeservedly called humans . Look at her now, then, the young martyr portrayed on a horizon’s portion. At the same time, watch the sacred edge on the other. Do you understand what I mean? This is what defines the sense of the common journey, now, at this precise moment. Among those who, for the survival of their children, throw behind the little that is all. And who, to defend a tangle of barbed wire and pusillanimity, sacrifice all of that little love for the next one left in the...