Thursday June 9 - San Miquel Literary Sala Hear Dr. Mackenzie Local Author

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Readings, San Miguel Literary Sala presents, Teresa Nicholas, Buryin? Daddy & Jacqueline Mackenzie, Empowering Spanish Speakers, Thu, June 9, 5-7pm, Posada San Francisco, Cnr of Hidalgo & Canal, 70 pesos/50 pesos for Literary Sala members

Dr. Jacqueline Mackenzie?Empowering Spanish Speakers

Empowering Spanish Speakers is an eye-opening story of what Mexican life outside of places like San Miguel is really like. No running water, no electricity, no work and oftentimes no food are the challenges facing the campesino. A subsistence farmer in rural Mexico doesn?t have time or money to think about books and uniforms or the four pesos it might take to get to school each day. A subsistence farmer in Mexico gets up in the morning and works a 12-hour day to provide food for the family. Families are extended and tend to include mothers, grandmothers, children, aunts ? not so many fathers, grandfathers, uncles or even sons. As soon as he able to, a rural Mexican boy starts to look north to the US for work, for opportunities, for money to send back to his poor family ? a dream most often ending in disappointment, failure and no money at all.

To read the entire review http://www.atencionsanmiguel.org/?p=661