An amazing man, economist, and post-war activist named Julio Cochoy, was kind enough to show three young women around the forest-trails of Santa Lucia. Myself, and two anthropology students accompanied him for 3 hours up and down mountian sides that had been partially washed out by the heavy downpours of this year´s rain-season. During our walk, we heard stories of war, stories of resistance, and stories of the magic... Magic that, according to Julio ( and I beleive him), still exists among the Jocote trees of the forest. These trees grow about 5 feet apart, but are intertwined above from tree to tree... making a canopy of hugging branches, knitted together above our heads. Julio´s strength as a war survivor and an international activist inspires me to share this history as well as continue to create my own - in a life commitment to resist injustice.
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