Quema²
Machine translation from the original, not yet reviewed by the author.
Original in Spanish
Our friends at the Cerro Quema Mining Company, Inc.1 live up to their name. Quema sure does burn, pal! What does Quema burn? It burns the brush with diesel. It burns eyes and noses with tear gas. It burns the future of Tonosí with cyanide. And now it also burns the house of the leader of the Los Santos Front Against Mining.
They say it wasn’t them, but everybody knows it was. Everybody, except a certain someone I know of (who supposedly is a journalist but isn’t) who says this was a farce. One look at the ashes is enough to verify that it is true they burned the house. And then they say that in this country there are freedoms and individual rights.
Notes
- Quema: in Spanish, “burns.” Cerro Quema is a gold-mining project in Tonosí, on the Azuero Peninsula. ↩