My life is an exile without return. He had no home
my childhood wandering lost, no land
my exile. My life
ship sailed
in nostalgia.
lived by the sea
looking at the horizon to my house
ignored sail
thought one day, and this trip
left me in another port of departure.
Alaíde Foppa (1959)
[Excerpt from the poem "Exile" in Evening Although ]
Alaíde Foppa disappears in Guatemala City on 19 December 1980, the Guatemalan army hands when he went in search of the steps of their children. After losing her husband, Alfonso Solórzano, she decides to take a new life, to be closer to social needs and their roots, so that takes a serious mission as ambassador Justice for Guatemala and Central America. Choose to commit to their political cause from a different trench and a voice of their own. Steps had traveled vanguard of a nascent feminism, and plotted with his lyrics the paths of poetry and art criticism. Fraternal solidarity with refugees housed at home and more than one way, its history linked to indigenous brothers and sisters. His chair was sailing between Italian literature and sociology of women and his voice was broadcast on Radio UNAM.
Unfortunately, that gave impetus this mission did not last long. In his first assignment in the service of Guatemalan guerrilla movement, was located and abducted along with who was driving the car he was traveling, leaving the orphans to a mother of 94 years, three sons and four grandchildren who came known.
Thirty years later, in the silence lies the truth about her disappearance.
The purpose of this forum is to remember the name and face the woman who gave life to Alaíde Foppa and thirty years of his disappearance, think in retrospect on the situation of women's rights in particular and human rights in general. This, as a way to commemorate, in the name of freedom, the voices that have been turned off by violence, authoritarianism and intolerance.
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