{"id":40555,"date":"2019-05-23T12:04:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T19:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/?p=40555"},"modified":"2019-05-23T12:16:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T19:16:30","slug":"united-states-of-america-a-gold-mountain-or-a-golden-cage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/united-states-of-america-a-gold-mountain-or-a-golden-cage\/","title":{"rendered":"United States of America: A \u201cGold Mountain,\u201d or a \u201cGolden Cage\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_40556\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40556\" style=\"width: 1765px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Baron-EDITED-WEB.jpg?quality=89&#038;ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40556\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Baron-EDITED-WEB.jpg?resize=1765%2C1247&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1765\" height=\"1247\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40556\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Street vendor in San Pedro Cholula, Mexico. Photo: Diana Azucena Hern\u00e1ndez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32610\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32610\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Devils-Advocate_Carlos-Baron_01web.jpg?quality=89&#038;ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-32610\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Devils-Advocate_Carlos-Baron_01web.jpg?resize=200%2C356&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32610\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlos Bar\u00f3n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p2\"><b><\/b>Recently, I was away from the United States for a couple of long and wonderful months, with my wife Azucena. We travelled to Mexico and Chile. It was the tail end of summer in Chile and the beginning of spring in Mexico, so we benefited from constant sunshine, while the SF Bay Area was soaked in late winter rain. From that sunny distance we could truly empathize\u2014or we truly tried.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">The possibility of traveling outside of the ill-gained frontiers of the United States is indeed a privilege. Nowadays, given the prevailing reality in this country, to take a break from that reality might be a necessity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">Nevertheless, that necessary privilege is hard to afford economically for many people living in this country. Besides, there are millions of people who are living the pressure of being undocumented in an era of open xenophobia and anti-immigration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">For the undocumented, it is practically impossible to visit the places where they came from. They are prisoners in what many call \u201cThe Golden Cage.\u201d Quite the opposite of \u201cGold Mountain,\u201d the more admiring name given historically to the United States by Chinese immigrants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">We took off on that long-postponed vacation, eager to get in touch with loved ones in both countries (Mexico and Chile) and hoping to experience new sights, food, peoples.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">We also wanted to take a break from the constant pressure that so many of us feel here, living under the possibility of yet another invented war, while suffering from the barrage of lies and half-truths that invade our senses 24-seven. All the while, we are urged to accept that the only way to change a bad situation is to continue to choose from either this or that party.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This is a difficult task, because so often those parties look and act alike, especially when foreign policy is concerned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">While in Mexico, we visited Mexico City, Veracruz and San Pedro Cholula, a \u201cMagical city\u201d in the state of Puebla. There, we saw people working hard (we hardly saw any empty or vacant stores). We enjoyed some beautiful main plazas or \u201cz\u00f3calos,\u201d where families also relaxed and enjoyed live music\u2014not only Mexican music, mind you. We also listened to different types of music, including a very good trio of \u201cRockeros,\u201d who played some Beatles, Rolling Stones, or Creedence Clearwater Revival tunes in the Z\u00f3calo of San Pedro Cholula.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">On any Sunday afternoon, in all the places we visited, around all sides of the z\u00f3calos, there were restaurants and various stores selling delicious food, well-made clothes, local arts and crafts, herbs, fresh juices. They were all bustling with relaxed and friendly customers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">The coffee houses not only served coffee, but also served as gathering places for conversation and music. We did not see a single computer being used in those caf\u00e9s. What a concept!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">In all restaurants that we visited, in both Chile and Mexico, but especially in Mexico, we were greeted by total strangers who would salute us with that traditional friendly word: \u201c\u00a1Provecho!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">It is a word that comes from the verb \u201caprovechar,\u201d that is \u201cmake the most of it.\u201d You say it when you enter or leave a restaurant, to patrons who are eating there. It is a common, deeply rooted way to be polite, respectful, to make eye contact, to share a smile, to open up to total strangers. Living in the United States, it is one of the greetings from Latinoam\u00e9rica that I miss the most.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">In all the cities, towns and villages that we visited, we were able to easily connect with total strangers. As each day passed, we were shedding most of the heaviness that we had accumulated living in Trump\u2019s Golden Cage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">And then, it was time to get back.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40557\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40557\" style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Xochitl-and-the-Flowers_WEB.jpg?quality=89&#038;ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40557\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Xochitl-and-the-Flowers_WEB.jpg?resize=2000%2C1125&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Xochitl-and-the-Flowers_WEB.jpg?w=2000&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Xochitl-and-the-Flowers_WEB.jpg?resize=600%2C338&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Xochitl-and-the-Flowers_WEB.jpg?resize=200%2C112&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Xochitl-and-the-Flowers_WEB.jpg?resize=360%2C203&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 360w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Xochitl-and-the-Flowers_WEB.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40557\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Opera performance by \u201cXochitl and the Flowers.\u201d Photo: Cheng Lee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p6\">Flying back to San Francisco, we realized that we had not had a single worrisome conversation about \u201cOrange Man and his butt kissers!\u201d (Not a punk group)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">We had also shed a great deal of that manufactured fear that prevails in this country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">We were ready to get back and face the extreme individualism that prevails in the U.S. today.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Was it<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201c\u00a1Adi\u00f3s provecho!\u201d and \u201cHello to separation?\u201d To answer the above, I will end by mentioning a couple of awesome events that we attended this past week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">The first was a concert by the Afro-Cuban Ensemble of San Francisco State University, under the direction of the wonderful John Calloway. The ensemble, formed in 1999, is dedicated to preserving Cuban popular music and other Latin American music genres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">The second one was a \u201cHands-on Opera event,\u201d a collaboration between the Community Music Center and Opera Parall\u00e9le. The name of this opera was \u201cXochitl and the Flowers.\u201d It was an extremely sweet opera, well directed\/conducted by Martha Rodr\u00edguez-Salazar and Beth Wilmurt. The libretto was based on a children\u2019s book, by the Salvadoran Jorge Argueta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">On both stages, multi-ethnic creativity rocked! It seemed as if all races of the world were present on stage, gracefully and ably sharing the creative space. In \u201cXochitl and the Flowers,\u201d besides multi-ethnicity, there was a palpable and exciting multi-generational mix of performers, singing in English and Spanish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">Those concerts proved that things can also be very good in this City by the Bay. Particularly when we act together in a multicultural manner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">After both performances, we rolled out into the rainy nights feeling renewed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">Thus, to the performers, audiences and even to the readers of this column, I can truly end by saying: \u201c\u00a1Provecho!\u201d<b> <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I was away from the United States for a couple of long and wonderful months, with my wife Azucena. We travelled to Mexico and Chile. 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