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Article: Estelli, Nicaragua.(Poem)
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- March 17, 2000
- Author:
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We walked off
our air-conditioned tour bus
to witness a funeral procession.
The children clung to their parents
who stared back at us as if to say:
Notre Americano, what the fuck are you doing here?
Members of our group
snapped pictures of the coffin,
a sixteen-year-old man
killed in battle
with bullets wrapped in American tax dollars.
That afternoon
a city councilman invited us into his office.
His fingers tapped anxiously upon the desk.
He recalled
Somoza's troops invading Estelli
in the spring of 1979
with U.S. built tanks.
The people of Estelli
with their bare hands
dug tunnels under the walls ...
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