Preparing For Mexico Day 4
Today was one of the days that will be most helpful for us when we go down to Mexico. Today in the morning we were guest speakers in a program that was being run in Global Kids and we spoke to the guests about what we are going to be doing in Mexico and why we decided to go to HRAP. After that we watched a movie called "School of Assassins" which was about how people come from South America to get military training and then go back to their countries and commit horrible crimes against their own people.
After that we went to lunch and when we came back we had a guest speaker by the name of John Burstein, who has gone to Mexico and worked in Chiapas and does development work. He spoke to us and gave us a lot of information about many different topics. Some of the things that he gave us information on are NAFTA, PRI, the American Invasion, Quetzalcoatl, Benito Juarez, the years 1810 and 1910, Human Rights, civil & political rights, ESC (economic, social and cultural rights), indigenous autonomy and Mestizo. You can look up everything here except Quetzalcoatl and Mestizo, which I will explain to you. Quetzalcoatl is an Aztec and Mayan God, which is a feathered serpent. Mestizo, depending on how you use it, is a mixture of an indigenous person and any other person.
As I was saying before, this information will be very useful when we go down to Mexico. I will keep you people posted because I will write a blog for you guys every day that I participate in the program. That's all for now.
