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Defining Diego

Defining Diego | What Brought Me Here

Defining Diego

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Parenting, Kids & Family, Relationships, Documentary

4.6550 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Aa Tiko' takes us on a journey through Guatemalan history — from the Spanish invasion to the rise of the banana industry and eventually the Guatemalan Civil War — to understand how indigenous communities have resisted oppression again and again. And we see Dolores not as translator but as storyteller, sharing her own family’s history and her hopes for Aa Tiko'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Previously on all Relative, defining Diego.

0:12.0

So she didn't get much money from the people who took Diego,

0:17.0

and Dan and I had to pay a lot of money in order to do the adoption. What does she think about that?

0:23.6

I don't know, I feel like honestly he's a changed dude.

0:28.6

From what to what?

0:29.6

From some hard-ass dude who fought in a war and stuff

0:34.6

to just someone who is trying to survive. The Truth Commission found

0:39.3

that 5,000 children were forcibly disappeared during the war.

0:52.5

On all my trips back to Santiago-Aitlan, I'd never stopped before at the memorial on the edge of town.

0:59.0

Right now we are at Parque de la Paz, and, yeah, it's a kind of eerie place.

1:13.2

It's very gray.

1:15.2

I mean, dark things happened here, so I'm not surprised.

1:18.3

Going there, paying my respects, it was important to me

1:22.4

because the men who died here were casualties of Guatemala's 36-year civil war.

1:28.1

There's small steps that lead up to kind of three pillars and crosses.

1:35.5

And I believe the memorials and the names are laid out really not how you think of a cemetery.

1:45.3

And I think that's because they are in the exact place that the bodies were.

1:54.3

The Guatemalan Civil War claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, including many

1:58.8

Sutuhil Maya. That's what I am. Families were ripped

2:03.5

apart. Children were left without parents and mothers without options. In many ways, the war is what

2:11.2

led to me being taken all the way from Santiago-A-Tiland to St. Paul, Minnesota. I think I will always be on this journey.

2:20.3

It's not the kind of trip that has a clear beginning or end.

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