By: Ahmed ELNAHAS – Montopoli, April 6th 2014.
In an
extreme act of protest, against the candidacy for President of Efrain Rios Montt*, a Military Coup-Man
and Genocide executioner, the young Guatemalan artist produced a spot in which
she, in full mourning black, dumped her bear feet in human blood leaving a
bloody trail behind her walking from the Constitutional Court to the Guatemala
National Palace.
She has
also used her own body, in many other occasions, in political key to relive her
country’s historical traumatic experiences extracted out from the 36 years
horrifying Civil War from 1960 until 1996. A conflict that harvested the lives of
hundreds of thousands of men, women and children; indiscriminately tortured,
raped, shot or left to rot in crowded humid cells.
In one of her most expressive representations,
she exposes her nude fragile body to the pressure pump water jet, normally used
to disperse demonstrations, also used to torture prisoners as an interrogation
technique.
Addressing
the Milano University under graduates last week, she said:
“My political principles are very clear. If I have the
conscience and interest about what happens in my country, my work then becomes a
reflex of my life, hence is political. All life is politics and in relation
with power”.
Could
Regina, the 23-year-old artist activist, being an example of discipline,
commitment, devotion and persistence; inspire millions of idle indifferent
youngsters of her generation worming about our Middle-Eastern schools and
universities?
Pass On The Word.
*Accused of committing Crimes against Humanity
(for torturing and liquidating protesters and opposition activists) and Mass
Genocide (of the native Maya tribes) last year and after long
trial, General Montt was found guilty and definitely sentenced to 80 years in
solitary confinement; in what seemed a historic verdict issued from Guatemala
Supreme Court. Nevertheless, two weeks later, with no explanation whatsoever,
the process was cancelled.
Reference: Laura Cherubini – Il Fatto
Quotidiano.
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