Josefina, his(its) oral record

Josefina, communal leader of the neighborhood the Indigenous Zone, belonged to the first women tucanas in to come to the territory where today Inírida is. It(he,she) was living in a corner, opposite the park of the neighborhood.  The same park that has in the whole half a statue of the princess Inírida stopped on a canoe, with a lance in the hand, and the Sun and a bough to his(its) back.  The woman meets strong, broad of shoulders, of thick(bulky) arms and generous chest(breast), and nevertheless beautiful.  Only there goes a small skirt, the guayuco or his(its) equivalent feminine one. The whole monument is constructed in concretly.  The first time that it I saw closely I felt shame.  A monument to a cut tree in full amazonia! I remembered one seemed(looked like) in the Quindío, much more graphical, with an axe fixed on the bough.  Carlos Lleras was saying that this age a demostration(proof) of which " our race " was feeling certain ill-will against the vegetable(plant) life, and the life in general; That all this violence in our history had to be for something.

In the days that I spent(passed) in Inírida, Josefina was only indigenous leader who took part in the sectorial tables, the others they were distrusting any form of politics or, for reasons that I know, they represented not even an alone time.  The men were those who were occupying his(its) place.  Plinio Yavinape, leader curripaco of Dolphin, me presented two of his(its,her) companions leaders and they said to me that they had not been notified to himself by the date of the previous meeting, who because of it had not represented, but I gave them the date and the place of the close table and I never turned them to seeing.

In the house of opposite the park one sees in the small hall a Belisario Betancur's immense picture.  Josefina is conservative as few ones and is "burned" in the political slang.  In my stay in Inírida they replaced her as chairwoman of the meeting of communal action of the neighborhood by the half-caste one.  The people were commenting that it(he,she) had put politics to the pod, which one was speaking very much, but which the people already were not noticing him.  And yes, she was pleasing much to speak. She was feeling proud of his(its) to know, but in fleeting instants was stopping to escape certain shame.  One was speaking about his(its,her) followers since(as,like) " my Indians " and was not leaving place to doubts that it(he,she) was interesting the politics.  She was married with a miner come from interior, good good conversationalist it(he) also, like almost all the colonists.  In the same way as the rest of the people(village), he was speaking about the partisan interest of his(its) wife with certain fear.

But I had the opportunity to eat once in his(its) house and she(it) counted(told) me on how the settlement of the harridans was an indigenous community formed by families of several ethnos emigrated from the Vaupés, who had established itself in territory puinave, of how the politicians it(he,she) had come looking for a territory where to found the capital and to raise there the building for the offices of the police station.  The types established itself in the community of The Ceiba, but the floods and the slides of the area or something like that extracted them of there.  They came and the indigenous gave to them permission of which they were doing his(its) settlement there. They raised the neighborhood of the port and of a small thing it(he,she) passed to a complete people(village) in only thirty years, in 1995.  In a beginning(principle), when it(he,she) was epoch of elections, the politicians were coming and were pushing native to do a tail, following(continuing) a rope(string) that had as ten stables, " to vote for the liberal ones ". As one of the Aurelianos of " 100 years of loneliness ", Josefina had turned(become) conservative for hatred the liberal ones. She(it) threw shouting to saying that they were not animal(rude) and to pushing the people in the opposite direction, it(he,she) discussed vociferously with the political leaders of the epoch and the hatred was gained(earned) of most than one. There came a moment in which the army was chasing(prosecuting) her(it) and touched him to escape clandestinly, helped by the Church.

He(she) liked much when Belisario visited the Guainía in his(its) political campaign, the first candidate in the whole history in to make something similar.  As result, the department of the Guainía voted of massive form for the only one that could count between(among) his(its,her) acquaintances.  From there it(he,she) affiliated politically, though also he(she) voted for Gaviria.

She was the only person in Inírida that could show something to me of indigenous music, of this that the Guainía already does not hear. He(she) sang to me a lullaby and the song "passenger", who speaks on the life of the indigenous semi-nomad, which is happening(passing) always for a place and does not remain.  " This way we are we ", he(she) said to me.

Josefina allowed me to see something of this history that the colonists do not tell, that the politicians conceal and the young men forget.  Things that only one hears them thereabouts, accidentally(casually).  As the case of the comissioner Obando, which since he(she) did not like the name of the people(village), it(he,she) decided that of there in forward would call himself(herself,itself) "Obando", so humbly it(he).  The people were bounced, they called to the department of government, to the political directories(boards of directors) and up to(even) the president in order that they were changing to the type and, clearly, the pod was delayed, but to the end(purpose) they changed it.  Still(yet) some maps stay, in Colombia and in the exterior, where Obando appears instead of Inírida, for shame of few Colombians that we know for what renaming.

But in "Locombia" the leaders do things of this type occasionally, like not to lose the custom. Recent cases we have, as the operation to recover the courthouse thought by the M, or the "glorious" opinion of Ship, who said that " the story " of the extermination of the UP was a " pure electoral strategy ".  little stuff since(as,like) the " bad hour(o'clock) " of Gaviria, which set us to forestall all, or the recent zaperoco with Samper, which puts the prefix drug trafficker - to almost quite.  This small stuff that repeat itself so much in our history.