Iván Puig, Land and Liberty (for sale)

Polarised nation. On one hand Forbes, on the other Commander Toño. On the first case, amazing stories of faith and discipline of a 14 year old migrant becoming Treasurer of the US, like Rosario Marín and on the second, students in rural cities that have become parents and are willing to give their life for a change of their son's future. Students that share a common interest around the uses of the land creating a new Caucasian Chalk Circle, who's land is it? The one who works on it or the one who disposes of it?

As far as I know (which is nothing), polarising in politics is not good. Maybe in any situation is not good, I will have to think about that further. The good part might be, that it usually shows two sides of a story that have a long way to go (in terms of mediation and conciliation) to meet in between.

How can people from the city understand that people from the rural towns are not fighting for their land but for the future of our land, our possibly polluted rivers carrying strange diseases to us? Will we think in the future, when we have a fracked, useless, carcass of a nation, that it would have been a good idea to listen to the people that worked the land?


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