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So apparently some Swiss company found out that Brazilian blood has more immunoglobulin (which is used in some medications made by pharma companies) than European blood, and now international pharma companies are lobbying to change Brazilian law to allow them to use our blood as a resource
There is no current evidence that those things are related, but it just so happens that at the same time there is also another law being discussed that would get rid of "bureaucracy" when it comes to ethics analyses of trials on humans. It would also remove the right, which all brazilians currently have, to access to the medication resulting from the trials they participated in
Both sources are in Portuguese because both news have been recently broke by a Brazilian investigative news agency, but if you don't speak it, you can always use automatic translation
I know there's a lot of fucked up shit happening in the world right now, but please pay attention to medical rights in Brasil right now. Especially if you're European, because virtually every company related to this is from your continent and plans to benefit you above all
ETA: using blood as a resource for these medications is not new; however, current law in brasil only allows that use to come from donated blood (because it comes from the plasma and apparently not all of it is used in blood transfusion; I'm not a doctor so I'm not clear on the details but that's the gist of it) and to be processed and used by Hemobrás, the State-owned company that handles this type of medical technology. The new law would allow for private companies to buy our blood from blood banks for their use. It is worth noting that at least one company has already explicitly stated that they won't be making the resulting medication available in the Brazilian market, so, essentially, they will be taking blood Brazilians donated to help other Brazilians and using it to treat immunocompromised Europeans, to the detriment of immunocompromised Brazilians that need the medicine. In the process, they will be making it harder for our State-owned company to use that same blood, forcing us to import from them and therefore making the medication more expensive. They also want to make it possible for Brazilians to sell their own blood - a deeply ethically questionable practice that is discouraged by the WHO and that has led to HIV outbreaks in Brasil in the past
#i hate it here i hate it here i HATE IT HERE im sick of this shit#social justice#geopolitics#latin america#brasil#brazil#social issues#latine shit
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Early mornings are chilly in Los Romero, a village high up in the mountains of western Guatemala. As in other predominantly Mam villages – Indigenous Maya people who have lived here since pre-Columbian times – households come quietly to life before dawn. Isabel Romero, a grandmother with long black hair, used to feel somewhat trapped in hers.
“I was afraid of speaking because I was cooped up at home. I didn’t go out,” she says, explaining that like many Mam women, her days were dedicated to the hard work of running a household with little money, and she rarely spoke with other women. “I worried a lot and had headaches.”
Residents of Los Romero live mainly from subsistence farming, growing maize, beans and squash, or grazing livestock. Almost 50% of the population is Indigenous in Guatemala, Central America’s biggest economy, but they do not share in its prosperity. Indigenous women in particular are discriminated against and dispossessed, with a life expectancy 13 years lower, and a maternal mortality rate two times higher, than the national average, according to the World Bank.
In Romero’s village and throughout the region, a community-based collective of women’s circles has been quietly improving Indigenous women’s lives, empowering them to find voices that have been suppressed through centuries of marginalisation.
It was a long process, but Romero’s headaches and fear are now a thing of the past. These days she gets out to workshops, meetings and women’s circles. She shares her knowledge of weaving traditional textiles on a backstrap loom and has a leadership role in the women’s group she co- founded: Buena Semilla (Good Seed).
The initiative emerged from Maya Mam women’s experiences, when French physician Anne Marie Chomat brought them together for interviews for her doctoral fieldwork in 2010- 2012. The simple act of gathering with others and sharing their experiences had a profound impact on the women, many of whom are still dealing with the traumatic legacy of Guatemala’s civil war.
During the 1960-1996 armed conflict between leftist guerrilla groups and the military, more than 200,000 people were killed, overwhelmingly Indigenous Maya civilians killed by the army. Another 45,000 were ‘disappeared’. A truth commission concluded that the state committed acts of genocide...
“There’s so much chronic stress and other issues that are not being addressed,” says Chomat, Buena Semilla’s international coordinator, who now lives in Canada. “So much healing happened in that space of women connecting with other women, getting out of their houses, realising: ‘I’m not alone’.”
Once Chomat’s fieldwork was finalised, several participants decided they wanted to continue meeting and with Chomat came up with the idea of women’s circles. With the help of a grant, the project got going in 2013 and now more than 300 women in two municipalities participate every week or two in circles, each comprising roughly 10 to 25 women.
Wearing traditional embroidered huipil blouses and hand-loomed skirts, the women gather, arriving on foot via the dirt roads that weave through the villages. They meet in a home or community building, or outside when they can for the connection with nature. The circle opens with a welcome and a prayer and then the group engages in breathing and movement exercises. Next up is discussion of the nahual, the day’s name and energy according to one of the interlocking ancient Mayan calendars, traditionally used for ceremonial practices. “Here in Santiago Atitlán it is only maybe 20% of people who speak about [knowledge of nahuals], so we are reviving it,” says Quiejú.
Then it’s time for the sharing circle. “More than anything, it is speaking what they have in their hearts,” says Quiejú. But every time and each circle is different, even though the leaders all work from the same guide, she says.
Sometimes circles will have a guided meditation. Sometimes they’ll have a workshop to learn weaving, or another skill that can help them earn money. Sometimes they eat together. Sometimes they cry. Often they laugh. No matter what, they generally end with a group embrace...
Only 1% of Guatemala’s national health budget is designated for mental health, and nearly all of that goes to the country’s one psychiatric hospital. Most mental health professionals are concentrated in the capital, offering psychotherapy and prescribing medications. For those in rural areas, there is little discussion of mental health or access to services.
“There is nothing for the preventative side, to work with families, to work with communities,” says Garavito. However, he emphasised that the concept of buen vivir (good living) among many Indigenous peoples in Latin America, which includes the traditional festivities, ceremonies and community of everyday village life, inherently incorporates good mental health. “Mental health is a fundamentally social concept and that has been a historical and common practice among Indigenous peoples, without them calling it that.”
...Financial constraints also pose challenges. Since 2020, Buena Semilla’s budget has been funded through crowdfunding and small grants. Staff and leaders all work part-time and many volunteer unpaid, but most circles now meet bi-weekly due to a squeeze on funds...
[Note: If you'd like to help, you can find out more and support Buena Semilla here, at their website.]
Despite the challenges, interest keeps growing. Elsa Cortez joined a circle earlier this year, motivated by her sister’s positive experience with Buena Semilla. In her mid-20s, she lives with her parents and as well as helping to run the household, she weaves belts, drawing from a basket full of spools of brightly coloured thread. She did not go out much before.
“There was a mentality that women were only supposed to be in the home or should only do certain things. That’s how we were raised,” she says. “My family was like that too.”
Thanks to Buena Semilla, those dynamics have started to shift in some families, including her own, says Cortez. Now she is exploring the idea of starting a circle specifically for girls, to help build their self-worth and self-esteem.
“It used to be difficult for me to socialise or chat, but now I am starting to socialise more easily,” says Cortez. “In the group I feel like it is psychological therapy every time we meet.”
-via Positive.News, December 8, 2023
#guatemala#latin america#indigenous#indigenous women#mental health#indigenous issues#womens empowerment#empowerment#maya#indigenous peoples#good news#hope
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✨🥀Daughter issues 🥀✨
Ps. I’d like some attention of you can’t tell🪽✨
#me#dark academia#attention wh0r3#curvy af#curvy and cute#give me attention#goth aesthetic#thick and juicy#thick babe#i want attention#daddy’s brat#bd/sm daddy#daddy issues#tumblr girls#tumblr baddie#tumblrina#alt girl#curvy latina#latin beauties#alt latina#alt aesthetic#alternative#beautiful lips#hips & ass#juicy fat ass#big juicy ass#phat butt#bratty#big tiddy baby#hot girsl
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About the accents: if someone has a very "proper" Italian they are either foreigners or politicians/dignitaries/etc. So that fits perfectly for Machete, but I think it would be so funny if he sometimes slipped up and used a Nepalese word bc he forgot one in "proper" Italian lol
(Funny to me cause Naples has its own language in addition to accent, and most people don't actually know those words)
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#ah that's good to hear!#glad it fits him#there's no way he gets it perfect every time#especially in the absence of widely used standardized Italian in the original canon era#there's bound to be a mix up every now and then#I don't know how likely it would be that he absorbed much Venetian at the time he lived there#I remember reading that lectures in medieval and early premodern universities were held in Latin but I could be wrong#even though his original native language is Sicilian I think he has probably lost a lot if not most of it due to lack of use#but it would be kind of funny if the Neapolitan and/or Sicilian influences resurfaced occasionally in private casual conversations#and Vasco who to my knowledge has never been to the south would be left guessing what he was even trying to say#I'm taking the easy way out and lowering their language barriers a bit out of convenience bear with me#I'm not competent enough to deal with all the different languages and dialects and the communication issues that would come with them#answered#anonymous#sorry to point out an obvious typo but I think you must've gotten Neapolitan/Napolese autocorrected to Nepalese by accident or something#unless Machete has secret ties to Nepali that I'm not aware of#which would be quite a twist
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Oh yeah I never mentioned it here but the Spanish version of Uprising is so fun. They name drop all kinds of Greek mythology (off the top of my head I remember them mentioning: Morpheus, Olympus, Tartarus, nyphms, and other things) and the nicknames the characters give to one another are pretty different.
I was translating a bit of the Spanish version in the 25 Years discord for funsies and was pleasantly surprised by the changes made in the localization!
#mango’s rambles#kid icarus#ngl I’m very tempted to just straight up make full translations of each chapter#main issue is it’s eurpoean spanish as opposed to Latin American Spanish so I’m not used to it#and also I’m still learning Spanish haha maybe I’ll do this once I get back from my study abroad#i should be much better by then haha
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Editor’s Note: Teodoro Antilli was active in the Argentine anarchist movement during a period of severe repression. In late 1909 a state of siege was imposed, many anarchists were imprisoned and their presses, offices and cultural centres were ransacked and closed. Antilli was involved in the publication of the anarchist paper, La Battala, but was arrested in May 1910 along with hundreds of others amid renewed attacks on the anarcho-syndicalist FORA (Selectiol1 58). In 1913, Alltilli was imprisoned for publishing an article accusing all assistant prison governor of raping an anarchist prisoner. He was involved in the general strike ofjanuary 1919, which was ruthlessly suppressed. Over 700 workers were killed, thousands more wounded, and over 50,000 imprisoned in what came to be known as the “Tragic Week.” All anarchist papers, including Antilli’s, were banned. In 1921, another 1,100 workers were massacred during the anarchist rebellion in Patagonia. Antilli and his next paper, La Antorcha, supported the actions of Severino Di Giovanni, a militant Italian anarchist refugee from fascism who began a campaign of illegal actions, including bank robberies and assassinations, in face of this brutal reaction. The following extracts, translated by Paul Sharkey, are taken from Antilli’s Salud a la Anarquia! [Here’s to Anarchy!] (Buenos Aires: La Antorcha, 1924, reprinted in El Anarquismo en America Latina, Caracas: Biblioteca Ayacucho, 1990)
WE SHOULD, IT OCCURS TO US, OFFER a full explanation of our notion of “social struggle” as opposed to “class struggle.” As we see it, they are a s different as n arrow is from wide and the eternal from the ephemeral. Suggesting actions of differing scopes. In fact, someone locked into the class struggle is ill equipped to understand comprehensive social struggle.... If I accept that there is only class struggle, success for me will b e enough. My quarrel is with the propertied and the capitalists. If I join forces with other workers like myself and set up, say, a cooperative, the class struggle will be over as far as we are concerned; we shall have won, as indeed the cooperators and socialists contend. Yet the state of society will not h ave been changed and the class struggle will be over a s far as we are concerned because we h ave made ourselves capitalists, the inner circle of a business that visits its exploitation on outsiders, making every one of us, in equal measure, an exploiter, instead of our being split into exploiters and exploited ... If I extend this to thinking about the entire social system as a “class struggle,” then all that is required is that my class should dictate to the other class, in which case I too shall have emerged the victor.
“Social struggle,” as we understand it, is not just setting a course for revolution and extinguishing the existence of the bourgeoisie; it is also, since we hold that the social also means the sociable, the elimination of all imposition, especially political imposition, by one man upon another; we see humanity as having fought for countless centuries past to achieve a genuinely free society; we plunge into these raging waters and, let there be no mistake about this, we accept all the consequences and, chiefly, the Revolution. Social struggle, therefore, is something humane and all-embracing; the aim is not merely to change society, but that society should be hospitable for men, and every source of oppression or tyranny banished, which is to say, a genuinely free society...
The term “social struggle,” as we employ it, i s that all-encompassing. And we want this borne in mind lest it be confused with class struggle carried through to Revolution. We bring into the Revolution a social struggle as well ... Class struggle carried through to Revolution has as its aim a “proletarian dictatorship.” Social struggle carried through to Revolution has as its object the freedom of Humanity and the ennobling of all of its members.
#classism#Argentina#class struggle#Latin America#south america#argentinian politics#anarchism#anarchy#anarchist society#practical anarchy#practical anarchism#resistance#autonomy#revolution#communism#anti capitalist#anti capitalism#late stage capitalism#daily posts#libraries#leftism#social issues#anarchy works#anarchist library#survival#freedom#Teodoro Antilli
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Sometimes I remember my family is, overall, very very stupid
#vent#personal stuff#they want trump to win and i must remind you we're latines they're brown skinned our grandma was indigenous#and they have never ever set a foot in north america like at all#and if i tell them just a fraction of what a piece of work trump is they will be like 'of course he's awful' like they're aware#and they still want him to win and it's not that they think he's the lesser of evils or something they just are stupid i suppose#and i shall lower my head and pretend to not exist because that's how i survived my 25 years with them i guess disagreeing is no option#they literally don't want Kamala Harris to allow venezuelan inmigrants to enter America there must be some seriously grave issue#some serious grave issue in their brain bc how can your compassion be that fricking low when you also know what ppl go through to leave#-sigh- i'm tired#anyways if you're american go vote for the love of whatever you like
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I didn't edit the 2nd one bc I couldn't get it like the first.
#san francisco#transfem#transgender#lgbtqia#queer couple#the bay#transgirl#travel#writing#queer#queer relationships#queer community#trans women#trans woman#trans women are real women#trans women are amazing#trans women are beautiful#trans women are valid#lgbtqi community#lgbtq community#lgbt pride#lgbtq#lgbtqiia+#lgbtq issues#latino#latina#latin girls#latin beauties#san franciso bay#san fransico
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going thru his anecdote transcripts and. this is Probably supposed to be English but wouldn't tourists sufficiently motivated by the promise of poetry recognize English...
#reverse 1999#like it's probably english. unfortunately im latin pilled and i dont think w the germanic influences that english looks like latin......but.#this isnt a criticism (i have issues w it being sakhalin he was at but well hard to dig into more specific islands) i just want my schmoopie#to be the most important person in tha world
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We were in latin class and I told the teacher I translated a sentence differently than her and she told me it was genius, that she didn't know that word could mean that IM GOING INSANEEEEE
#1 TEACHER'S PET !!!!!!!!!!!!#living for the praise omg#there are a lot of psychological issues hidden in this post#latin
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Oh my to the nonnie’s nonna with twelve siblings. That’s not a big italian Fam, that’s an army.
Hahah that’s a sports team like that nonna is a soldier I can’t even imagine
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"The hymn is about Demeter" is one of the weakest arguments you can make against modern iterations of the Persephone myth.
#Like obviously your issue isn't exploring different povs. It's how Demeter is usually portrayed in these adaptations#or that you don't like Hades and Persephone's relationship being wirtten as a romance#Persephone is an extremely...passive figure in almost every version of her abduction. ESPECIALLY the HomHym to Demeter#Things just keep happening to her but she never /acts/ in any way. She's always the recipient.#(At least in later/Latin texts she umm visits the gardens and eats the fruit on her own. That's more than what u get in the Homeric Hymn)#(Also that's just my personal interpretation but I think it's bc Persephone IS the queen of the dead so Greeks avoided talking about her)#And she kind of fades from the text after she's taken and only shows up again when Hermes goes down to pick her up. There's a big gap there#So ofc telling her side of the story would be appealing. And also not wrong! Why would it be wrong; her whole life got turned upside down#Demeter's wanderings and (re)actions vary from source to source but Persephone becoming queen of the underworld is a constant.#So yeah. What/who the myth is about and whether you dislike modern takes on it are two different; separate things.
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I swear if this goes the way I think it's going I'm never playing this fucking game anymore
#theo is rambling again#imagine making a game about different cultures in a fantasy planet but you can't even RESPECT the cultures you're making it about#like seriously what is the point of going through all that work and research if you can't even respect it. SPECIALLY POC CULTURE#I've always had issue with this game due to it's obvious racism and lack of black characters#AND I CAN'T BRUSH OFF THEM MAKING A REGION ABOUT MY OWN CULTURE AND MAKING THE GOD OF THAT REGION BE A FUCKING COLONIZER#WHY ARE YOU DPING THAT SERIOUSLY WHY ARE YOU MAKING A REGION ABOUT LATIN AMERICA AND AFRICA AND MAKING THE GOD A COLONIZER??????#I'm not sure if the info that was leaked is true but I just have no hope for this fucking game left#if it's true and the god turns out to be a “white savior” I'm never playing that game again. might even delete the artwork I made of it.#sorry for this big ass rambling I'm just so mad about all this stuff
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i thoroughly enjoyed conclave but it was a silly little mystery movie trying very hard to be serious dramatic oscar bait which meant the fact that the film’s meaning was so diluted as to be irrelevant was immediately evident.
#conclave#also thought the issues that the cardinals addressed were so superficial and poorly articulated#idk tedesco could have been so interesting (mainly bc of the latin liturgy bit he had) and i wish they'd done more with that#and for a movie nominally about catholicism!! INSANEEE that they didn't really talk about christ until the homily like forty minutes in!!!!#it wasn't about god. no one had a crisis of *faith*. lawrence had a crisis of prayer and the deceased pope had issues with the church#do love me a good spiritual dryness moment but it wasn't really spiritual dryness was it.#lawrence's storyline also had no real resolution and it's a MOVIE so it shouldve methinks#none of it was about god and maybe it should have been#was beautifullly beautifully shot though. the costumes!! the scenery!! oh my god!!#film
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UNCHARTED REFERENCE????
#i know sig parvis magna is a relatively common latin phrase but in my heart it is an uncharted reference#nyxtalks#things r good with my boys again now we have left the 'hearing' abt magical issues#we having cute moments with the kids. my favourite middle aged men are in love. its all good
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Una unión sensata
by Aris
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Francisca siempre se había considerado una dama apropiada. No solo porque todos quienes la conocían coincidieran en ello, sino que estaba convencida de la propia corrección de sus sentimientos.
Desde pequeña, y gracias a la diligencia y asidua protección de sus hermanos, supo cómo debía comportarse una señorita si quería escapar a la ruina y la inmoralidad. De ella nunca se conoció un escándalo, ni una sola habladuría, ninguna reserva u opinión desfavorable llevó su nombre a la boca o pluma de persona alguna. De Francisca Burgos solo se oían buenos comentarios: que era una chiquilla encantadora, una señorita ejemplar, alma caritativa, jovencita juiciosa, amiga prudente, intérprete virtuosa, etc. Etc.
Tal reputación le habría significado una extendida y bien merecida admiración en un vecindario más variado y numeroso, o si tan solo su familia hubiese estado dispuesta a sufrir las agonías del traslado ocasional a las localidades de moda para pasar la temporada. Pero siendo como eran las cosas, lo cierto es que sus muchas virtudes y encantos no llegaron al conocimiento de más de una treintena de personas, de las cuales solo un puñado resultaban en parejas adecuadas.
Por suerte, entre aquellos se encontraba Manuel González, su más querido amigo de infancia. Desde el niño flaquito que le extendía la mano para cruzar el canal que separaba los terrenos de sus casas paternas, se había convertido en un competente abogado y hábil administrador, aunque siguiera sin ganar tanto peso como a ella y al médico les gustaría.
También era el hombre que llevaba siendo su esposo por los últimos cuatro años, y el origen de su actual intranquilidad por la penosa solicitud que estaba a punto de hacerle.
—Él lo entenderá. Es un hombre sensato, sabrá que se lo pido por el bien y la felicidad de ambos. —Repetía para sí misma de camino al estudio, cargando una generosa taza de té entre sus temblorosas manos.
La suya fue una unión sensata, motivada por el mutuo deseo de abandonar la protección paterna y aprovechar las bondades que la vida de casados les ofrecía, sin tener que padecer realmente los pormenores más desfavorables de dicho intercambio.
Siendo la hija menor de una familia respetable y bien avecindada, con dos hermanos mayores de fuerte carácter y atentos a su educación, Francisca no conoció lo que era la libertad de movimiento o consciencia sino hasta que se convirtió en la esposa de Manuel, y este se vio ampliamente recompensado con una serena y acogedora vida doméstica bajo la cariñosa y diligente mano de su nueva esposa. Se llevaban bien, sus temperamentos congeniaban perfectamente, así como sus anhelos y objetivos para el futuro juntos. Sentían un profundo respeto y un tierno cariño por el otro, lo que les facilitó la pantomima de recién casados y les ganó la consideración de sus vecinos como la pareja “más armoniosa y dulce de toda la región”. Por eso su enorme angustia cuando se enteró, por nadie menos que la floja y bravucona mucama que acababa de despedir, de los actuales y escandalosos comentarios que se hacían sobre ellos en el pueblo.
Se detuvo en un descansillo poco antes de llegar para palmearse las mejillas y recuperar algo de compostura antes de entrar al estudio de su marido.
—¡Cálmate de una vez! No es que el asunto sea un misterio para él, que además de hombre es abogado y peores cosas habrá escuchado.
Aun así, la mortifica imaginar que Manuel llegara a lamentarse que, en vez de una joven inocente, se había casado con una víbora maquinadora, igual que las señoras distinguidas cuyos intereses representaba. Pero, siendo la mujer sensible que era y estando en juego el buen nombre y la reputación de ambos, no podía retrasar más el inconveniente asunto.
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Manuel podía admitir para sí mismo que estaba asustado. Aterrado más bien. Sin embargo, se esforzaba en mantener esos inconvenientes sentimientos lo más ocultos a la vista de su querida Francisca, para no mortificarla mientras bebía largos sorbos del té que ella le había llevado a su oficina.
Té negro con melisa, lavanda, cedrón, menta… y una vara de canela para darle sabor. El elixir especial de su esposa para cuando debía comunicarle malas noticias. No de esas menores como la llegada de un visitante sin anunciar, ¡sino catastróficas noticas! Como aquella vez en que le informó que sus vecinos insistían en hacerlos benefactores del concierto de caridad; o cuando resultó que parte de sus inquilinos se vieron involucrados en un absurdo e ilegal pleito de faldas y contrabando; o, la más terrible, cuando su madre llegó con planes de permanecer un mes completo en su casa.
Le había servido esa mezcla las veces suficientes para que Manuel fuese capaz de reconocer su particular sabor y propósito, pero no tantas como para que dejase de ponerle los pelos de punta, tan contrario a su propósito original.
Había, además, otro asunto inquietante. Contrario a lo habitual, Francisca permanecía en silencio. Ni una sola palabra sobre su día, el manejo de la casa, las travesuras de los perros o las novedades del vecindario para distraerlo de sus tediosos asuntos legales ¡Nada! Se había limitado a entregarle la bandeja y entonces se sentó en el futón acostumbrado, observándolo en silencio mientras apuraba la infame taza de té. Como si ella misma estuviera demasiado alterada por el mensaje que debía transmitir como para intentar ocultar su terrible misión.
Manuel no lo soportaba más.
—¿Hay algo que quieras discutir, tesoro? —Inquirió, con un tono que tampoco lograba disimular su nerviosismo.
Francisca se estremeció ligeramente al verse descubierta, pero pronto recuperó su semblante sereno, aunque Manuel no dejó de notar el leve temblor en su párpado izquierdo.
—Me has descubierto, querido amigo. En efecto, hay un asunto delicado que debo discutir contigo, pero antes… —Se interrumpió, señalando la taza sobre su escritorio—. Bebe un poco más. Lo necesitarás.
Manuel sintió que un leve temblor se apoderaba de su cuerpo ante sus palabras. “Lo necesitarás”. Sin duda se trataba de algo grande, devastador. Obedientemente, tragó hasta la última gota del sedante que le ofrecían para sus pobres nervios, dispuesto a recibir el golpe mortal de una vez.
¿Qué podría ser? En los segundos que tardó la bebida en deslizarse por su adormecida garganta, un sinnúmero de escenarios dantescos se arremolinaban en su mente: ¿Sería otro huésped indeseado? ¿Otro evento benéfico? ¡El cielo no lo permita! Que los estuvieran obligando a dejar su reclusión nupcial y organizar un baile. Tal vez uno de los nuevos cachorros había muerto ¡Oh! Señor, ¡no! Toda la camada, sucumbida en la ventisca nocturna ¿O quizás un escándalo? Debía ser uno que los involucrara a ellos, o su esposa no sería tan críptica al respecto ¿Una demanda en su contra? O, peor aún, ¿acaso trataba sobre Francisca? Pero ¿qué podría hacer su dulce amiga para atraer las malas lenguas? A no ser que, Dios no lo quiera, había caído finalmente en las garras de un pérfido rufián y quería divorciarse para seguir a ese canalla.
Consciente de que su mente deliraba bajo los efectos del té, se volvió hacia Francisca, dispuesto a enfrentar la situación cara a cara.
—De acuerdo, ángel mío, dime qué ha ocurrido. —la instó, sujetando sus manos entre las suyas.
—Más que acontecido algo, es una petición, o, mejor dicho, una exigencia que debo hacerte. —respondió Francisca, devolviéndole el gesto y apretando sus manos con una fuerza que Manuel jamás había sentido provenir de sus delicadas manos—. Pero temo que, si me atrevo, pensarás que soy una amiga espantosa…
—Te aseguro que nunca me atrevería a pensar tal cosa. Lo que tengas que pedir, pídemelo con tranquilidad, mi cielo, y haré todo lo que esté a mi alcance para apoyarte en lo que necesites.
Francisca tardó un poco más en mirarlo a los ojos, pero cuando lo hizo, Manuel pudo ver en ellos un temor palpable, junto con una decisión ferviente. Fuese lo que fuese que iba a pedirle, no saldría de allí hasta que lo consiguiera.
—Necesito que tengamos un bebé.
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Francisca vio a Manuel tambalearse, acuclillado donde estaba, para luego caer desplomado al piso. Se apresuró en sostenerlo y notó lo frío que se había puesto, su rostro pálido de terror. Lo abanicó desesperadamente con el primer manojo de documentos que encontró a su alcance.
—¡Respira, cariño, respira! —le instaba, inclinándose sobre él mientras el pobre hombre trataba de encontrar su aliento, sin mucho éxito.
—¿Un bebé? —murmuró Manuel, sus pensamientos enredados y confusos—. ¿En dónde conseguiríamos un bebé? ¿Cómo…?
Francisca se detuvo un momento en sus esfuerzos para mirarlo con severidad.
—Sabes muy bien cómo, José Manuel.
Manuel agitó las manos frenéticamente, como si el solo pensamiento fuera una pesadilla tangible que intentaba apartar de su mente.
—¡Oh no, no, no! —negó insistentemente, mientras retrocedía a gatas hacia el respaldo del sillón, sin lograr levantarse, buscando desesperadamente una escapatoria o un escondite—. Imposible. No se puede, pastelito. De ninguna manera.
Francisca lo siguió de cerca y con determinación, una mezcla de preocupación e incredulidad en su expresión.
—Solo será un par de veces. —quiso tranquilizarlo, fallando horriblemente.
—¡¿Veces?! —exclamó el hombre, más espantado que antes.
—Es necesario, querido. Llevamos cuatro años casados y recluidos, la gente empieza a hablar sobre la falta de niños… —intentó razonar con él, la voz dulce y conciliadora como si le hablase a un niño asustado.
—¡Déjalos que hablen entonces! —protestó Manuel, todavía arrastrándose por la alfombra y entre los muebles para evadir su mirada.
—Sabíamos que este día llegaría. —continuó Francisca, arrodillándose y deteniendo su persecución un momento, ya bastante cansada de seguirlo así agachada—, que era una prueba a la que tendríamos que hacer frente tarde o temprano…
—Seguro que podemos encontrar otra forma más conveniente —interrumpió Manuel, la desesperación y el pánico afectando su razón y nublando sus palabras—. No seríamos los primeros. Puedo arreglar una adquisición discreta, o si lo prefieres podrías recurrir a un tercero para concretar el asunto…
—¡¡Señor González!! —exclamó Francisca, alzándose indignada—. ¡Espero que no esté insinuando lo que creo!
Al escuchar ese inusual y elevado timbre en la voz de su esposa, que hacía notar cuánto la había ofendido con sus últimas palabras, Manuel cayó de rodillas frente a ella, aferrándose al borde de su vestido como si su vida dependiera de ello.
—¡Lo lamento, en verdad! ¡Pero por favor, bizcochito, ten piedad! —clamó, los ojos llenos de súplica—. Te juro que ni una palabra de reproche saldrá de mi boca si me dices que lo has resuelto sin requerir de mi penosa intervención.
Francisca reclamó de vuelta su falda, sacudiéndoselo de encima con un fuerte tirón.
—¡Suficiente! Seré clara al respecto, señor. No pienso recurrir a un mozo, a un amante, ni a ningún tipo de truco por el estilo para tener un hijo. Soy una mujer decente, devota, y casada —recalcó eso último, con una intensidad que hizo que Manuel instintivamente se sentara derecho—. Con un hombre sano y en edad de proporcionarme lo que requiero para completar esa labor.
Francisca no pudo mantener mucho más el tono severo, no era propio de ella. Además, viéndolo en ese lamentable estado, fue incapaz de permanecer indiferente a su sufrimiento. Volvió a arrodillarse, esta vez a un lado de su marido y comenzó a sobarle la espalda suavemente.
—Lamento ponerte en esta situación. No es una perspectiva agradable para ninguno de los dos, la concerniente al acto. Pero cuando planeamos cómo sería nuestra vida juntos dijiste que estabas de acuerdo en cuanto a tener hijos.
—En ese momento no pensé demasiado en cómo los conseguiríamos. Pero tienes razón, amor mío... —Suspiró Manuel, considerablemente más relajado gracias a los mimos de Francisca—. Solo un bebé nacido en esta casa calmará la lengua de la gente, pero ¿Estarás bien con ello?
Francisca se reclinó contra su costado, dejando descansar la cabeza sobre su hombro.
—No te mentiré. La idea de parir me asusta un poco, como a toda mujer razonable. En cuanto al embarazo y la maternidad, sí me gustaría. Sabes que ansío tener una familia grande.
—Ay, señor, ¿en qué me metí? —suspiró Manuel nuevamente, acabando con una risita que alegró en algo su semblante y logró contagiar a su esposa.
—Lo haces sonar como si te enviara al patíbulo, cuando solo te pido que yazcas un par de veces conmigo. —protestó Francisca, picándole el costado y haciéndole retorcerse como cuando eran niños.
—Piedad, querida, piedad —suplicaba Manuel entre risas.
-o-
La fatigosa misión se llevó a cabo ese mismo invierno, y para el siguiente otoño todo el vecindario estuvo complacido de recibir la noticia de que la señora de González había dado a luz a una sana y hermosa niña con los mismos y penetrantes ojos que su padre.
Ese feliz acontecimiento, junto a los otros dos que le siguieron, los mantuvo tranquilos respecto de la fertilidad y buen entendimiento de la pareja, para quienes la temida y laboriosa tarea resultó ser escasamente temida, si bien bastante exhaustiva.
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