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\u201cI lift up my eyes to the mountains\u2014
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 where does my help come from?\u201d
-Psalm 121.1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her life, Aura Alina Dom\u00ednguez Chauza has had three names. Her mother called her Aura Elina, but the priest in her town registered her as Aura Alina. However, the community of Los Pinos in the municipality of San Lorenzo in the department of Nari\u00f1o, calls her Auralina. That is the most recent update of her name. Her house is a huge cream and terracotta rectangle that watches over the country road from a hill. In the distance, on the plain of the Pan de Az\u00facar hill, a chapel can be seen, like a small light bulb. There, a long time ago, a very sick man, having asked the Virgin Mary for her health, was healed. The people, in pilgrimage, began to frequent the hill and ended up building a temple. Similarly, Auralina is one of our contacts for a new project for rural women who stand for peace and sustainability. Her house would easily seem like a temple, and we, as pilgrims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near her house among the mountains of the Colombian Massif, the freshwater of four Colombian arterial rivers is born. The live currents of the Magdalena River, the Cauca River, the Pat\u00eda River, and the Caquet\u00e1 River circulate between fields of corn, potatoes, fruit, and grains that enjoy the wind at 2,527 meters above sea level. In that portion of the Andes mountain range, when one raises one’s eyes to the mountains, help is glimpsed in that horizon of stones, vegetation, water, and in the people who work on it.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A few years ago, maybe before the Peace Accord, armed groups flanked the slopes of the Massif. But still today, on one side of the road, we are greeted by graffiti with the names of the armed fronts. On the other, there is silence, dirt roads, fields, and people with tired faces. They asked for coffee and arepas in the cafeterias at 7 am when they are not yet ready to receive customers. On one side of the hills and mountains, the coca bushes encircle the land; on the other, rural women, resolved for peace, resist violence with ancestral seeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Justapaz\u00b4s task is to start an agricultural project with women victims of the conflict in the region, sisters from the Pentecostal ecclesial sector, and farmworker women, participants of the social ministry of the Catholic Church. The idea is that local women generate social changes in the bowels of a patriarchal farmworkers\u2019 culture through nonviolent actions. That was stipulated in the project with which Global Ministries and Week of Compassion would partner with Justapaz in this community. The difficult part of all this is to resist identifying immediate solutions to problems or developing agendas or possible contents for the project. Instead, our challenge is to search for and discern the ‘strategic who’ of the community. A person or group capable of creating links between communities and people. Because community networks and social changes do not begin with their ends, resolutions, or means but with their relationships. Jean Paul Lederach believed that the key question for this exercise is not the solution to this problem but, \u201cWho has the possibility of being in relationship with the top leaders and at the same time with organic relationships, with people of communities? \u2026 Who can go from their identity group of origin, crossing the invisible social dividing line, entering into relationships with people on the other side, and coming back?\u201d This is not easy. It takes time, a lot of time, and sometimes all this altitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We arrived at Auralina\u2019s farm thanks to the \u201cRed de Guardianes de la Semilla\u201d (Guardians of Seeds of Life Network<\/em>) and the \u201cAsociaci\u00f3n Agroecol\u00f3gica Nuevas Ra\u00edces\u201d- Agroeconur (New Roots Agroecological Association<\/em>), an agricultural organization dedicated to rescuing native and \u201ccriolla\u201d seeds lost by the multinationals that first explore and then exploit their lands. Water, seed, and peace are their watchword. They have been at this for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt’s a hobby,\u201d says Alba Portillo, one of Agroeconur\u00b4s representatives for the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEverything in life is hobbies\u2026 over 20 years old hobbies,\u201d Auralina responds, laughing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Auralina had studied economics, public administration, traditional Chinese medicine, pedagogical processes, and at some point she even organized, coordinated, and directed women’s basketball teams in her region. It was not leadership that grew out of chance. Callings in life that seem like gifts to bring communities to maturity. Her community had already decided it would be GMO-free, and now they were working on their gender policy.<\/p>\n\n\n

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For them, the \u201ccampesino<\/em>\u201d (farmer<\/em>) is from the Andes, and their seeds are only part of the path to food, they said, recalling the study by the Colombian sociologist Fals Borda. \u201cThe soil, the sun, the water, the forest, the seed\u2026 are life. Peace then is not an agreement but the daily life of a process that begins in the first territory, that is, the body. And the body was in very bad shape because people do not eat healthily,\u201d they pointed out. Auralina knew it firsthand. Some time ago, she participated in a study for the Ministry of Health that showed a more significant pathology in women and investigated the data. “If women get sick, families don’t run.” That was the clear balance of the patriarchal structures in the municipality. \u201cThe health of the body,” she maintained, “depends on its diet. Still, vegetables do not reach all the reality of the body and the territory. We nurture ourselves by cultivating our relationships with the spiritual, the terrestrial, and the human areas of life,\u201d she said. Humanity does not live on bread alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The vicinity is called \u201cLos Pinos\u201d (Pine trees<\/em>), but there aren’t too many. Yet there are roads uphill, mud, mud channels, enormous trees, daisies the size of a hand, and the holy mystery of any mountain range in this country. As we climb, Auralina exhorts us to stop and acknowledge the welcoming of the forest spirits.<\/p>\n\n\n

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After a walk of almost 5 km at that height, we crossed the last gate of sticks and wire. It was the fourth or the sixth. To the right of the road was the thin sound of a water hole. \u201cIt takes years to sow the water, to recover it, and for it to be born again,\u201d she told us proudly. Multinationals have other reasons to sow the water. They filled places where there was no water to later build hydroelectric plants that the slopes of the mountains and the arms of the river could not tolerate. The earth trembles and the river is compressed in diversions created by a battalion of engineers. Both the earth and the river remain solely responsible. This was in Ituango, Antioquia, in the north of the country, between April and May 2018. The brothers and sisters from churches there told us about the evictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is my sanctuary,\u201d Auralina told us, ushering us in, going down to an open space in the forest that felt like a tabernacle of plants. It was a sacred esplanade between the mountains with a half-made octagonal structure on the land she inherited from her parents. She baptized it as \u201cCasa\u00fatero\u201d (Wombhouse<\/em>), an octagon in clay to have community encounters and dialogue: \u201cHere we meet and have conversations about agroecology, about how to organize ourselves as women, and about the territory,\u201d she commented. Until then, even women with processes in the social pastoral of the Catholic Church arrived. The idea was to get the Pentecostal church to join these organizational processes as well. That is Justapaz\u00b4s bet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was almost 11:30 am when we returned to Auralina’s house. Two groups of women, hot chocolate, and cheese were waiting on the terrace for us. The expectation was to start the project with them. One of the groups called itself \u201cRa\u00edces de mi Tierra\u201d (Our Land Roots); the other, \u201cDesarrollo Juvenil Campesino\u201d (Young Farmers\u00b4 Development). \u201cWe started as young women, but our name has already worn off,\u201d they joked. They also recognized and celebrated the time spent with their community, their orchards, gardens, and their children. The growth of a solidarity economy through savings groups allowed them to work on a savings habit. \u201cWe do activities to raise funds, to get outside the logic of banks and support each other. Every microloan made is paid every month at low interest,\u201d they showed us. They labor the land for their sustenance and not just for profit. Each one harvests their own organic crops to remove all the chemicals for the damage it does to the body. They harvest happily \u201cbecause the land does not grow in a bad mood… if you’re not happy, farming doesn’t happen,\u201d they comment. We asked them what else they did when they weren’t out among the crops and the community. \u201cPlay basketball,\u201d they answered almost in one voice.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Upon returning, we remembered the reports at the end of the year by different organizations that sentenced a very hard time for human rights defenders and social leaders in the country. These are devastating figures about the risks to life that roam Colombian towns and community leaders like these women from San Lorenzo, Nari\u00f1o. 171 community leaders were assassinated in 2021. There are 22 so far between January and mid-February 2022. Since the signing of the Peace Agreement in 2016, there have been 500. As of September 2021, 611 leaders and defenders of the environment were murdered. They were Indians, farmers, Afro-descendants, environmentalists, members of \u201cJunta de Acci\u00f3n Comunal\u201d (Community Action Boards<\/em>), custodians and guardians of their territories who “walked with God and disappeared” (Deut. 5.24).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Auralina and these women are land workers and leaders who protect the world regardless of data. Like the mountains of some psalms, they welcome the people and listen carefully to their call for help. By listening to their stories and disposition, one realizes and sees the world organizing itself to continue being the world and not a mere resource for oil, mining, hydroelectric incomes, and monocultures. It continues to be a mountain range, rivers, and a seam of trees on which \u201cbirds come and perch in its branches\u201d in high-altitude towns. (Mt. 13.32)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Help also comes from them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alex Maldonado-Lizardi and Xiomara Cintron-Garcia serve with Justapaz in Colombia. Their appointments are made possible by gifts to the Disciples Mission Fund, Our Church\u2019s Wider Mission, and your special gifts.<\/em>
Make a gift that supports the work of Alex and Xiomara<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

En Espa\u00f1ol<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLevanto mis ojos a los montes
\u00bfDe d\u00f3nde vendr\u00e1 el auxilio?\u201d
-Salmo 121.1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En su vida, Aura Alina Dom\u00ednguez Chauza ha tenido tres nombres. Su mam\u00e1 la llam\u00f3 Aura Elina, pero el cura del pueblo la inscribi\u00f3 como Aura Alina. No obstante, la comunidad de la vereda los Pinos del municipio de San Lorenzo en el departamento de Nari\u00f1o, la llama Auralina. Esa es la actualizaci\u00f3n m\u00e1s reciente. Su casa es un rect\u00e1ngulo enorme de colores crema y terracota que vigila la carretera rural desde un cerro. A lo lejos, sobre la planicie del cerro Pan de Az\u00facar, se aprecia, como una bombilla peque\u00f1a, una capilla. Hace mucho, un se\u00f1or muy enfermo, habi\u00e9ndole pedido a la virgen por su salud, qued\u00f3 sano. La gente, en romer\u00eda, empez\u00f3 a frecuentar el cerro y acabaron haciendo un templo. De igual forma, Auralina es uno de nuestros contactos para un nuevo proyecto de mujeres rurales por la paz y el desarrollo, por la paz y la sostenibilidad, y su casa con facilidad parecer\u00eda un templo, y nosotros peregrinos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

El agua dulce de 4 r\u00edos arteriales colombianos nace en las inmediaciones de su casa entre los montes del Macizo Colombiano. Por all\u00ed circulan las corrientes vivas del r\u00edo Magdalena, del r\u00edo Cauca, el Pat\u00eda y el Caquet\u00e1, entre sembrad\u00edos de ma\u00edz, papa, fruta y granos que disfrutan del viento a 2,527 metros sobre el nivel del mar. En ese pedazo de la cordillera de los andes, cuando uno levanta los ojos a los montes, el auxilio se vislumbra en ese horizonte de piedras, vegetaci\u00f3n y agua, y en la gente que trabaja sobre \u00e9l.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hace unos a\u00f1os, grupos armados flanqueaban las laderas del Macizo. Aun hoy, a un lado de la carretera nos reciben grafitis con los nombres de los frentes armados; al otro, hay silencio, caminos de tierra, sembrad\u00edos, gente de rostro cansado pidiendo tintos y arepas en las cafeter\u00edas a las 7 am cuando todav\u00eda no est\u00e1n listas para recibir clientes. De un lado de las colinas y montes, atrechan los arbustos de coca; al otro, mujeres rurales, resueltas por la paz, optaron por semillas ancestrales y desde ah\u00ed resistir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nuestra tarea consiste en iniciar un proyecto de trabajo comunitario-agr\u00edcola con mujeres v\u00edctimas del conflicto en la regi\u00f3n, hermanas del sector eclesial pentecostal y mujeres campesinas, beneficiarias de la pastoral social de la iglesia cat\u00f3lica. La idea es que mujeres de la localidad generen cambios sociales desde acciones noviolentas en las entra\u00f1as de una cultura campesina patriarcal. Eso era lo que estipulaba el proyecto con el cual Ministerios Globales y \u201cWeek of Compassion\u201d acompa\u00f1an la gesti\u00f3n de Justapaz en esta comunidad.  Lo dif\u00edcil de todo esto es no desesperarse por identificar soluciones inmediatas a los problemas, ni por el desarrollo de agendas o contenidos posibles para los proyectos. En cambio, corresponde buscar e identificar el \u2018qui\u00e9n estrat\u00e9gico\u2019 de la comunidad. Una persona o colectivo capaz de crear v\u00ednculos. Porque las redes comunitarias y los cambios sociales no comienzan por sus fines sino por sus relaciones. As\u00ed, planteaba Jean Paul Lederach, que la pregunta clave para este ejercicio no es entonces cu\u00e1l es la soluci\u00f3n a este problema sino, \u201c\u00bfQui\u00e9n tiene la posibilidad de estar en relaci\u00f3n con los m\u00e1ximos l\u00edderes y al mismo tiempo con relaciones org\u00e1nicas, con personas de comunidades? \u2026 \u00bfQui\u00e9n es capaz de ir desde su grupo de identidad, de origen, cruzar la frontera divisoria social invisible, entrar en relaci\u00f3n con personas del otro lado y volver?\u201d  Esto no es sencillo. Toma tiempo, mucho tiempo, y a veces, toda esta altura.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Llegamos a la finca de Auralina gracias a la Red de Guardianes de Semillas de Vida. Una organizaci\u00f3n de car\u00e1cter agr\u00edcola en la que participan campesinos dedicados al rescate de sus semillas nativas y criollas echadas a p\u00e9rdida por las multinacionales que primero exploran y luego explotan sus tierras. Agua, semilla y paz, es su consigna. Llevan m\u00e1s de 20 a\u00f1os en esto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Es un hobbie, dice Alba Portillo representante de Agroeconur para el proyecto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Todo en la vida son hobbies\u2026 de m\u00e1s de 20 a\u00f1os\u201d, contesta riendo Auralina.      <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Auralina hab\u00eda estudiado econom\u00eda, administraci\u00f3n p\u00fablica, medicina tradicional china, procesos pedag\u00f3gicos, y en alg\u00fan momento hasta organiz\u00f3, coordin\u00f3 y dirigi\u00f3 equipos de baloncesto femenino en su regi\u00f3n. No era un liderazgo resultado del azar. Hay oficios que parecen regalos para llevar comunidades a la madurez. De hecho, su comunidad ya hab\u00eda decidido que ser\u00eda libre de transg\u00e9nicos y trabajaban sobre la pol\u00edtica p\u00fablica de g\u00e9nero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tienen temas muy claros y compart\u00edan sus reflexiones con nosotros. El campesino es de los andes y sus semillas son solo una parte del camino al alimento, dec\u00edan recordando el estudio del soci\u00f3logo colombiano Fals Borda. \u201cEl suelo, el sol, el agua, el bosque, la semilla\u2026 son la vida. La paz entonces no es un acuerdo sino la cotidianidad de un proceso que comienza en el primer territorio que es el cuerpo. Y el cuerpo andaba muy mal, porque la gente no come saludable\u201d, se\u00f1alaban. Auralina lo sab\u00eda de primera mano. Hace un tiempo particip\u00f3 en un estudio para el ministerio de salud que arroj\u00f3 una mayor patolog\u00eda en mujeres y andaba investigando los datos. \u201cSi las mujeres se enferman, las familias no corren\u201d. Ese era el saldo claro de las estructuras patriarcales en el municipio. \u201cLa salud del cuerpo- sostuvo- depende de su alimentaci\u00f3n, pero las verduras no alcanzan toda la realidad del cuerpo y el territorio. Nos nutrimos en el cultivo de nuestras relaciones para con lo celeste, lo terrestre y lo humano\u201d, dec\u00eda. No solo de pan vive la humanidad.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

La vereda se llama Los Pinos, pero no hay demasiados. Lo que s\u00ed hay son caminos cerro arriba, fango, canales de barro, \u00e1rboles enormes, margaritas del tama\u00f1o de una mano y los secretos de cualquier cordillera en este pa\u00eds. Mientras subimos, Auralina nos exhorta a detenernos y a reconocer la bienvenida de los esp\u00edritus del bosque.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tras una caminata de casi 5km sobre esa altura, cruzamos un \u00faltimo port\u00f3n de palos y alambre. Era el cuarto o el sexto. A la derecha se escuchaba el delgado sonido de un ojo de agua. \u201cToma a\u00f1os sembrar el agua para recuperarla y que vuelva a nacer\u201d, nos dec\u00eda orgullosa. Las multinacionales tienen otras razones para sembrar el agua. Llenan lugares donde no hab\u00eda para luego armar hidroel\u00e9ctricas que las laderas de las monta\u00f1as y los brazos del r\u00edo no toleran. La tierra tiembla, el r\u00edo se comprime en los desv\u00edos que crearon para ellos y ambos quedan como \u00fanicos responsables. Esto fue en Ituango, Antioquia, al norte del pa\u00eds, entre abril y mayo de 2018. Los hermanos de iglesias all\u00e1 nos contaron sobre los desalojos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEste es mi santuario\u201d, nos dec\u00eda Auralina haci\u00e9ndonos pasar, bajando hacia un lugar abierto entre el bosque que se sent\u00eda como una capilla de plantas. Era una explanada sagrada entre las monta\u00f1as con una estructura octagonal a medio hacer en el terreno que hered\u00f3 de sus padres. La bautiz\u00f3 como Casa\u00fatero<\/em>, un oct\u00e1gono en barro para el encuentro y di\u00e1logo comunitario: \u201cAc\u00e1 nos reunimos y tenemos conversaciones sobre agroecolog\u00eda, sobre c\u00f3mo organizarnos como mujeres, sobre el territorio\u2026\u201d, comentaba. Hasta ac\u00e1 llegan incluso mujeres con procesos en la pastoral social de la iglesia cat\u00f3lica. La idea era lograr que de la iglesia pentecostal tambi\u00e9n se vincularan a estos procesos organizativos. Esa es la apuesta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eran casi las 11:00 am cuando regresamos a la casa de Auralina. En la terraza aguardaban dos colectivos de mujeres, chocolate caliente y queso. La expectativa era iniciar el proyecto con ellas. Uno de los grupos se hac\u00eda llamar \u201cRa\u00edces de mi tierra\u201d; el otro, \u201cDesarrollo juvenil campesino\u201d: \u201ciniciamos jovencitas, pero ya se nos gast\u00f3 el nombre\u201d, bromeaban. Pero reconoc\u00edan el tiempo vertido sobre la comunidad, sobre las huertas y jardines, sobre los ni\u00f1os y el desarrollo de una econom\u00eda solidaria a trav\u00e9s de grupos de ahorro \u201cpara que cada una tenga un h\u00e1bito de ahorrar. Hacemos actividades para recaudar fondos, salir de los bancos de afuera y apoyarnos. Se hacen cr\u00e9ditos que se pagan cada mes a un bajo inter\u00e9s.\u201d Siembran para la manutenci\u00f3n del hogar. Cada una siembra lo suyo \u201clo org\u00e1nico, para quitar todo lo qu\u00edmico por el da\u00f1o que hace al cuerpo\u201d. Cultivan con alegr\u00eda \u201cporque de mal humor no se da\u2026 si usted no est\u00e1 alegre ese cultivo no se da\u201d, comentan. Les preguntamos qu\u00e9 m\u00e1s hac\u00edan cuando no andaban entre cultivos y la comunidad. \u201cJugar baloncesto\u201d, respondieron casi a una voz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Al regresar, record\u00e1bamos los informes al cierre de a\u00f1o por parte de distintas organizaciones que sentenciaban un tiempo muy duro para los l\u00edderes y lideresas defensores de derechos humanos en el pa\u00eds. Son cifras demoledoras sobre los riesgos de vida que no dejan de recorrer los pueblos colombianos y a l\u00edderes comunitarios como estas mujeres de San Lorenzo, Nari\u00f1o. 171 l\u00edderes comunitarios fueron asesinados en 2021. Suman 22 en lo que va de enero a mediados de febrero 2022 y desde la firma del Acuerdo de Paz en 2016, re\u00fanen 500. Al mes de septiembre de 2021, 611 personas l\u00edderes y defensoras del medioambiente fueron asesinadas. Eran ind\u00edgenas, campesinos, afrodescendientes, ecologistas, miembros de Juntas de Acci\u00f3n Comunal, custodios y guardianes de sus territorios que \u201canduvieron con Dios y desaparecieron\u201d (Deut. 5.24).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Auralina y estas mujeres son lideresas campesinas que por encima de estos datos protegen al mundo. Como los montes de algunos salmos, acogen a los pueblos y escuchan con cuidado su llamado de auxilio. Al prestar o\u00eddos a sus historias y su disposici\u00f3n, uno se da cuenta y va viendo al mundo organizarse para seguir siendo mundo y no petroleras, mineras, hidroel\u00e9tricas y monocultivos; para seguir siendo cordillera, r\u00edos, y una costura de \u00e1rboles que alojan p\u00e1jaros y pueblos de altura.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

De ellas tambi\u00e9n viene el auxilio.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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