
“Disadvantages faced by indigenous peoples are related to dispossession and exacerbated by powerlessness and poverty.” Roberto Mukaro Borrero
Sweet Dreams There is no edict for you to leave your home tonight as armed militias glare at you with trembling trigger fingers, while benign police stand back shrugging. No one is bulldozing the graves of your loved ones or setting fire to community facilities in order to persuade you to leave the place where you have set down roots, generations of love and friendship and work. No one is turning your land in to agribusiness at the cost of community, even life, you are not losing your freedom tonight, or your basic rights, even your dignity remains in tact despite corrupt politicians. No one is making laws to target you as an enemy of the state because you refuse to surrender your home and land from which you sustain life and no one despises you because you refuse to surrender your heritage. But if you live in Paraguay then, this night they will indeed come and kill, burn, rape, torture and imprison while stealing your land under guise of legislated corporate rights and resumption. Copyright 2022 ©Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®️