Monday April 19, 2021
Environmental justice award winner: We have the right to live in a territory that for us is sacred
By Barbara Fraser, National Catholic Reporter
Aura Lolita Chávez Ixcaquic, a K iche Maya teacher and community leader in Guatemala, was returning home on a bus with other women when armed men boarded the vehicle and demanded to know Who is Lolita? Thinking she was about to die, she was about to answer when another woman stood up and said, I am Lolita. The men began to beat her, when another woman, and then another, said, No, I am Lolita.
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