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We know we’re in a civilizational model
that’s completely in crisis.

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In all aspects.

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Socially, politically, religiously,
economically, psychologically,

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the time will come
when it will collapse.

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We’ve lost that link
with the deep intimacy of our being,

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with that intimate connection with life

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that living beings have
from birth.

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How is it that we forgot
something so fundamental?

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How could they erase this from us?

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In the last 7,000 years,

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we’ve been building
a very patriarchal culture.

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You have to bring in the mother
to balance it.

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That return
to respecting life,

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to loving that life.

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What you love
is cared for and protected.

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Huehuecóyotl, which is
where we are now,

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is the ecovillage started by
our nomadic circus group,

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that traveled
around the world,

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and that’s how
this tribe was formed.

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This weird, special community,

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different from most
of the communities I know.

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This tribe, which is now
the tribe of the old coyotes.

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Help on the other side, let\'s keep
pitching them like the ones already up.

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I always grew up
with examples and stories

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of people
who were against the system.

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This reinforced
my spirit of always wanting

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to participate
in a process of social change,

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but without it becoming
a power structure

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in which the first to be expelled
would surely be me.

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Let’s breathe.

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And who’s going to make the holes
that go in the center?

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I need four strong people there.

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The burliest of you, yes.

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Ripe, but not too hard or too soft.

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No, you and I are out.

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So from that moment
I started looking

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for a new line of ideology,
which is liberalism, right?

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Basically, neither master,
nor boss, nor slave of anyone.

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Those were the years of Che Guevara,
of revolt, of the revolution.

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There was this force
of wanting to change the world,

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as has been the case in my country,
in Mexico, right?

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There were many people breaking away
from the establishment,

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after the whole struggle
to stop the war in Vietnam.

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That concept, that awareness
of thinking about our vulnerability

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as a species, against the weapons
that we human beings had invented,

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determined our lives.

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We didn\'t want to be
university researchers,

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or professors,
or dedicate ourselves to that scientific branch.

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The nomad lifestyle won us over.

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And I said
\"Well, what am I going to do?\"

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I sold my thesis,
and with that I left.

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I felt the call of the wild.

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The awareness that there’s always
something beyond adventure,

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that you want to unite your being,
your individuality, with the greater whole.

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To learn more about ancient cultures,

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to live alongside them,

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to travel and get to know many different
territories and civilizations.

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Some cultural encounters
were really impressive,

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they blew our minds
and our concepts of how they lived,

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of how we had lived,
and how humans should live.

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Also, we took our drums,
and our guitars,

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and we started a circus.

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Circus and theater.

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So we could,
as a theater group,

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be actors, participants
and witnesses

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to the changes that were happening
in the world since the 1960s.

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And that was also
a source of inspiration

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that helped us create
that tribe that began to form

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with this purpose
of making a community.

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I saw that their children
were very well cared for,

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and the group was very playful,
very creative.

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I also got involved in social issues,

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and got along
with all the peoples around us,

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wherever the caravan went.

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It was a nomadic, collective life.

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At that time
I was a self-taught filmmaker.

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And I became part
of this nomadic group,

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to document their very interesting activities.

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At a certain point,

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the situation led us to think
about putting down roots,

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putting ecology into practice,
which was our goal,

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and also the experimental arts.

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We said
“We have to get our place.”

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\"As tough as it might be,
we have to put down roots.\"

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We were looking for a place
that had a natural symbol.

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We came to see this place,
we were fascinated. Fascinated.

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When I reached
the foot of the amate,

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for me it was the sign
we were looking for.

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It was very important
to get here

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and be surprised by those roots that
were coming out of the ground to embrace us.

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You have to know
that everything is also perennial,

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and that there’s no need
to be afraid,

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that we have to go around you,

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through you.

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Here we thank
the energy of the ancestors,

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we also thank you,
energy of the Earth,

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because you are growing,
but also…

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you are…

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moving on to the new seasons.

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My work through the community is to be
the guardian of the amate, of tradition.

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Through fire,
through the elements,

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looking for the tree of life there.

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Little tree,
beautiful little tree,

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we bring you a little breath,
Mother Earth.

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Carry our good thoughts,
so that the Earth is in our hearts,

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and that we humans
can evolve as living beings.

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Thank you very much, Ometéotl.

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Coming here at least
three, four times a week is necessary.

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It gives you
perspective on life.

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Beyond the small human tasks.

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Look at the flowers, all the flowers
from the Day of the Dead are still there.

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These are the champions of this place,
these are the ocotes.

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That’s why the town
is called Ocoticlán.

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It’s very important to breathe.

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And from that breath
comes our eternal music.

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There’s a river that runs
from some petroglyphs that are over there,

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all the way down here.

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All the way,
there are no houses yet,

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and it’ll be very difficult
to build houses here.

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It\'s a...

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well, it’s a sanctuary.

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This is the heart,
in a way, of Huehuecóyotl.

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It’s what keeps alive that entire place
of houses, of structures,

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and also of thoughts, that’s important
in terms of protection, of ecology,

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of non-violence,
of consensus...

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So that we stop being stupid,

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and see what we really
have to do in life,

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which is to love each other.

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We tried to learn
from ancient systems,

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from ancient societies,

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from people who have tried
to live together, collectively.

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And learn what we have forgotten.

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We had very humble beginnings.

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Many of us built our houses
from stone, adobe and posts,

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with the townspeople,
and we didn\'t have much money.

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We built them without electricity.

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There’s always been a community life,
since we were 15 years old,

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and that has now become

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Huehuecóyotl, the community,

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the eco-community.

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The community process
has taught us a lot about tolerance,

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and respect,

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and also freedom.

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What’s important
in a community,

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is to listen to each other,
and to know that there are problems,

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but they can be solved.

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and it\'s the way we\'ve been doing it,
for so many years.

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These 300 square meters

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serve as an example
of what’s possible in a small space.

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Collecting your water,
storing it, heating it,

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and recycling wastewater,

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in order to create filtration ditches,
which are gardens.

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There are also animals here.

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Hello, hello!

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Ducks, rabbits, and earthworms,
because it\'s a self-sustaining cycle.

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The worms
eat the animal manure,

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they produce fertilizer,

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we give fertilizer to plants,
we feed plants to rabbits and ducks.

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So this is like an expression
of living permaculture.

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I mean, these are the products
that we grow here for breakfast.

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Wherever you look,
there is abuse,

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of technology, of globalization,
of unbridled corporations,

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that are hoarding everything,
from seeds to the food on your table.

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Thinking about this whole cycle,

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and realizing that eating
is the most intimate thing we do in life,

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we have to realize
that what feeds us

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can either give us nutrition
or cause us disease,

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or give us a completely distorted
way of thinking,

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putting an end to small-scale farmers
in many countries.

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So, here in Latin America
I think maize is the key,

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the conservation of native maize.

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Native seeds of all kinds,

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that have lasted 10,000 years

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surviving floods and droughts,

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these are the seeds that we really
should honor, preserve and conserve.

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Art is part of life.

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The way you dress,

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the way you present yourself to the world.

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It’s not a separate thing from life.

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Combining art and ecology
makes the message more beautiful.

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I believe that making art
brings us closer to the void.

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And many people pay
thousands of pesos, dollars, etc.,

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to learn how to meditate.

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But art also brings you closer
to the emptiness of your mind.

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I think that...

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there must be gypsy blood
in my genes,

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because I’ve always been
very attracted to nomadic, tribal life,

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and life in motion.

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So from a very young age
I dreamed of traveling.

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I mean, part of my life
is linked to traveling,

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to keeping a record.

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I write, I take pictures.

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Documenting what I’m living,

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what I’m learning
and what I’m doing.

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Writing, traveling, taking action.

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Taking action socially, politically,

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artistically, culturally and spiritually,
wherever I arrive.

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Oh, faithful Mazorca.

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You\'re still there after so many years.

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We’re growing old together,
my “Mazorquita”.

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Welcome to the Mazorca.

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The Mazorca is part of a legend...
turned into reality, into history.

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Because this was my home for 13 years.

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For 13 years, when I departed
Huehuecóyotl, this village,

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with the purpose
of reaching Tierra del Fuego.

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The Mazorca
changed its coat several times,

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but it was always a mazorca, a cob.

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But in Chile we built
this trailer from nothing,

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which was the kitchen of the caravan.

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The purpose of this trip
was for me, above all,

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to recover nomadism,
recover social action,

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and connect it with cultural,
artistic, educational action,

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and with spiritual action.

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Which means that we stayed for months
in each country,

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and in some countries, for years.

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And the caravan
became like a magnet.

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Due to its colors,
its artistic, cultural proposal.

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The rainbow flags.

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The groups of volunteers,
of which there were, in total,

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more than 450 in 13 years.

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And nomadism
has a very important purpose,

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because when I later discovered
the importance of ecology,

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it arose, precisely, from thinking

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that for thousands of years
we were nomads,

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and our relationship with nature
was different from now.

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I wanted to be a gypsy when I grew up,
I wanted to travel the world,

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and I wanted to explore
everywhere I could.

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That was my dream since I was a child.

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So when I arrived
and saw the buses,

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the Mazorca
immediately caught all my attention,

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I found her so beautiful,
so, so beautiful,

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I said “Wow, this is a fairy tale”,

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and I felt I was part of that tribe,
of that clan.

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My story goes back
to my family,

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which is where I received
my first education,

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where I received
my first knowledge,

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and where I was taught
to love Mother Earth.

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From that ancestral root,

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that led my father
to share with me that everything is alive,

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that the trees are alive and speak,

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that animals feel,

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that the mountains have a spirit,

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that the water runs freely
over the Earth,

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and that we are of the Earth.

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Mother Earth
is my greatest love.

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It’s time to speak, to act,
to feel and to think for life.

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It’s now.

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We feel honored to be
guardians of this beautiful mountain,

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to receive thousands
of people in search

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of a life that is
more connected with nature,

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and more thoughtful

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amid the socio-environmental crisis
that we’re facing in the world.

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Finding that ecstasy
in the basics,

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in fire, in water,
in the sea, in the wind,

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in the land where we are,
as predators...

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Plundering.

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Don\'t plunder your Mother,
help her.

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My house is as essential to me
as a tree.

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Neither precarious nor luxurious.

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A labyrinth in space,

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in which things speak of a meaning,

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and reveal their burning dream
of the world.

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I close my eyes
and hear the inciting mumbling

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of these things that are inert
but alive.

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And a pale violet or blue light,

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expands my certainty that the whole universe
unfolds its shores here,

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and in its rhythm,
my center.

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So,
the house becomes tiny,

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and I in it,
with my mind I arrange things,

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speaking to them of a rhythm,
a function,

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and a splendor.