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Profile of Ana Lucy Bengochea
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As part of the ancestors who were slaves in [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: As part of the ancestors who were slaves in Africa this affected at the level of us in America because many of the population [inaudible] come from African ancestors. So much power which existed in Africa if we hadn´t been enslaved I think that some apects of the world had changed. But the best thing of this process of slavery that we [inaudible] us with all our races, our culture, our tradition and our costumes everything was [inaudible] by our African ancestors and for us at the level of America this was a great gift which gave us our ancestors at one hundred seven years we live and handle our own culture and our own identity which not [inaudible].
My personal freedom is having a [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: My personal freedom is having a participation and talking about what is really happening, saying the marginalization and the evacuation which suffer my communities [inaudible]. We have to have personal limits and we to [inaudible] what is to define aspects at collective level, that the collective part is very important in the ethnic groups, especially in native ethnic groups at the level of Honduras and at the level of Latin America.
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When they have values, principles and.... [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: When they have values, principles and.... our cultures.... . When they think collectivly and when there is spirituality in the decentral process and when they turn to think what is family. all that are the solid basics. Where the comunities beginn, from this level, I'm in favour of an international net which has this principles and values: the work with women at the base of the global level, to have a exchange and to learn from each other. ....at the level of the United Nations. When we integrate all this, we could have an exchange at the global level.
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As was said before, the non-liberal economic [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: As was said before, the non-liberal economic model leads to the fact, that worldwide very few have power in their hands. For instance, in my country, Honduras, we fight against macro-companies, that have monopolised fuel industry, for fuel. We fight in order to achieve lower fuel prices and to get thus access to fuel, to have lower prices for public transport, something every community has the right for. These macro-companies have huge benefits, without sharing it with others. We seek to make macro-companies share their benefits with communities.
One of the human rights has to be the choice [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: One of the human rights has to be the choice of the place where we live. To have liberty where we live. We like to live in the protected areas. We like to live in the habitat with a biodiversity but some powers want to influence us and they want to drive us out of the places where we lived mainly. They want to injure one of our rights of a functional habitat. The convention decree of 169 of the ILO(International Labour Organisation) that is about the right of the native people and their ancestral territories and this is being violated. ... to drive out the native people of their habitat to built big projects that are insulting. We should not allow this and we will fight for the claim of our ancestral rights.
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Real democracy is when everyone has a right [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: Real democracy is when everyone has a right to choose one person, when communities and entire nations have a right to choose one person and say: "you are our leader and we want you to represent us". Democracy that dictates, especially dictatorial democracy, democracy that requires money in order to get to power and people without money have no chance to get it, have no chance to attain high position, this kind of democracy is wrong. We are part of an international project, where women work on a global level implementing democracy, sharing their experience, learning from each other like equal to equal. Democracy means giving a chance to communities to draft their own development and to define the word "development" on their own.
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The international conventions, especially we [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: The international conventions, especially we as native peoples talking about the application of Convention No. 169 of the ILO where they talk about the natives, their [inaudible], their language, [inaudible]. These conventions have been ratified by our governments at the level of Latin America but they are not applicable in our governments, we have to, as native communities, return to [inaudible] the application of these conventions which are laws but they are not applicable in our countries, we must have it for [inaudible] together demanding the application and the new legislation of these conventions so that they are not only as a document [inaudible] for rulers but that they can also be applicable because this is the most difficult the application of the conventions.
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...we have to solve this problems inside of [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: ...we have to solve this problems inside of our country and the other international gouvernments don't have to interfere in the problems of other countries. The integration and the involvement of this countries has to define our process..... that we don't have our own problems and this is local and national.
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I think that we don't have to sacrifice our [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: I think that we don't have to sacrifice our security. We don't have to sacrifice with ourselfes. This is why the state has to guarantee security. We have to know how to balance the security. We have to learn how to claim liberty. We have to unite everyone to get our own liberty. We should not allow that these notices that affect us, those manipulating notices, affect our liberty.
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Concept of freedom. Freedom is the right [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: Concept of freedom. Freedom is the right given to us by birth. It is the right of speech, the right to move from one place to other. Freedom is though often misused by justice. Often there is no freedom, when justice is applied. In juridical cases freedom is being manipulated. And there is no institution persuing these crimes, stopping what is happing, because freedom is always giving place to manipulations.
The liberty concept is a right that we have [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: The liberty concept is a right that we have in life. Liberty to express what we think. Liberty to move from one place to the other, but this liberty is very often frustating with the explication of justice. And very often in this spaces doesn't exist this way of liberty. It exist the manipulation of the liberty in the juridical cases, in special cases like our comunities.... that emerge juridically that they are murdering the youth....... But a liberty concerning the juridical part to search for this delinquents ....doesn't exist..., because around the liberty there are always places of power that are manipulated.
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One of my great heroes is God; he has [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: One of my great heroes is God; he has different names and is allmighty. He is the reason why religion is preached all over the world. The ancestors are also my heroes. Although dead, they inspire us through our dreams and make us change. My community is my hero because we have been fighting for 207 years to preserve our race and religion and we will work on it in future.
It´s very important that these patent laws [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: It´s very important that these patent laws in the whole world, as I mentioned before, that the companies in one country always manage what has to do with patents and that they gather information from the communities and patentize this information, especially when these communities possess medical plants which people had been protecting and which had been used to cure various diseases. Therefore the behaviour of the companies, the sudden patentisation, is not loyal. It is very important that the communities can patentize their knowledge, the plants and science of their ancestors.
There hast to be a limit. You cannot [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: There hast to be a limit. You cannot continue destroying the environment in order to make firms (which destroy the environment) grow. People have to put a limit in order to protect the ecology, it is responsability of the government and the organisations of all different countries. It doesn't matter if those are community organisations or big organisations, we should always preserve and conserve our environment.
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We have to start thinking and tell like the [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: We have to start thinking and tell like the refrain which says give the people who learn to fish a line, to get sustainable communities, and therfore we have to provide the farmers, behave friendly towards our environment, to improve their agrarian output. We also have to support these farmers, these associations, these small firms in order to guarantee their independence and their incomings. We have to permit them their independence. In future, there have to be governmental politics which facilitate those processes, so that already existing agreements on a global level will be respected.
Making aware of reforestation: If we don't [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: Making aware of reforestation: If we don't maintain an environment free from pollution unfortunately we won't have pure water. The big international companies hold the huge business of selling water. Selling water is a very important business, in which these big companies intend to have control over water. We must get into action, create strategic alliences with people who maintain the same idea in order to support the natural resources and so be able to have healthy water. The government also must affect in a positive way the political methods of reforestation in order to have water on a long-term basis.
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Being coordinator of the emergency committee [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: Being coordinator of the emergency committee we take care of the management of the sustainable ressources in the different communities of Honduras. We don´t like the way in which the big companies pass on information concerning the use of genetically manipulated field crops. We always tell the people in these villages to learn to manage in a traditional and modern way but not forgetting their roots. We have made tests which prove that these genetic products, these seeds, affect our land, our autochtonal seeds. It is recommendable that we (the native communities) didn´t use these genetic seeds. We remind that our communities have their idiosyncrasy. Mass media causes confusion by telling that genetic seeds are better than the traditional ones, but that is a lie. We have to use our native seeds because then the improvement of our land is guaranteed and our food will be of better quality.
science is good, is philosphic and it is [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: science is good, is philosphic and it is investigation. When science is applied in a transparent way you have to search for knowledge, but it is also the case that science is used together with patents of exorbitant interest; that is especially the case with native people. Big companies receive these patents in the following way: scientists go to the communities to investigate, but results are not made public to the community. Then, suddenly, the community gets to know that a big company has patented something which belongs to the community and receives money from these patents. We must not allow this. Patents must go to the people who really deserve them.
The others could recommend the firms not to [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: The others could recommend the firms not to continue using chemicals, that they should begin to use organic material, because by this the protection of the ecosystem can be ensured. I would also like to organise people's communities in a way that they protected their environment and used the natural ressources properly, in order to preserve and stop global warming. capacitate the maintenance and protection of the environment and lasting use
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I would wish that all the people could live [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: I would wish that all the people could live without fear and despair, that communities commercialised their products,that the communities themselves could manage their land, that we could put our products into fair-trade markets, whithout intervention of monopolies. I also wish that the native people get into positions where they can influence decisions, they should not remain invisible. There should be a kind of government information-point, there should be possibilities of including native people in government and elsewhere. We,women, should also be able to get opportunities, as we always have been marginated and our hard work has not been acknowledged. There should be equal opportunities for both sexes, men and women. A very important wish includes that there should be an abundance of food for everyone in the world. Everyone should be able to live a life filled with dignity, have a home, be in health and having received education. With all these basic means we can make a change in the world.
Sometimes the omnipresence of media [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: Sometimes the omnipresence of media constitute a problem, especially when they are being manipulated by the big media companies. There are some negative aspects of media, one of them is that it encourages young people to turn to the negative side of their environment. We must diffuse educational aspects, information which makes them appreciate values, which makes them appreciate environment preservation. Media should help and guide us concerning having access to education and concerning knowledge about what is happening around us.
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I think when a person has ideas in his mind [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: I think when a person has ideas in his mind and wants to change something you can compare this to the situation of a mother: her life will change and having a child means she lives and fights for it; a mother doesn't feel alone. This shows that we feel alone when we are empty on the inside. We won't feel alone if we are not empty on the inside. To overcome this emptyness we should unite and do something social.Let's join an organisation, let's do something in the field of solidarity, let's join something which will transform us in a way that we feel useful for ourselves and for humanity.
Technology: There has been a great change [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: Technology: There has been a great change in the world concerning technology, it has served us as communication tool. We can now communicate from any country in the world. But the rural areas don´t have access to such service, because there are no such technology services in the rural areas. We have to gain support to establish these technologies also in rural areas, so that these rural communities get to know how to communicate. These technologies could also serve as tool for commercialisation . But having all these technologies...
The challenge is the unequality. The [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: The challenge is the unequality. The inequality that feels...What has just been growing inside me are the changes that we named by trying to carry knowledge, in order to change the lives of the people. I think that what makes me grow most of all, is inspiration and spirituality.
If any culture is / belongs to a true [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: If any culture is / belongs to a true culture, the sense of commerce (to buy and sell things) can’t be given to the fore / to special emphasis. A culture is transfer[r]ed by the knowledge given from generations to generations. You can’t speak about culture and there won’t be any tradition, if there aren’t any values and any spiritualism. Children transfer culture to their parents, parents to nephews and nephews to the [hole] generation. A lot of people want to make business of the culture. It isn’t possible to allow this. We, as a indigenous/native population, have protected our culture and we continue to go this way. We’ve obtained a price from the UNESCO. [In this way we will preserve it].
We need to educate ourseles and to develop [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: We need to educate ourseles and to develop education, to organize and to mobilize ourselves collectively to defend our identity, our diversity, our environment with it's natural resources.
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What can we learn from Africa? we can learn [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: What can we learn from Africa? we can learn a lot from their culture, their traditions, their spirituality. The way how our ancestors transmit this spirituality, this inspiration, this wisdom, to act like they did. Their wisdom can help us to develop our communities... This is what we have to learn from Africa: (wisdom)is a spiritual tool which can only be understood by native Africans.
by beginning to create a equilibrium [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: by beginning to create a equilibrium concerning: getting to know ourselves, knowing which resources and which virtues we have in our countries, the different ethnics existing in our cities, beginning to protect and use our resourses in an adequate way, the ballast with our cultures, values and principles, disclosing these innovating and exciting things, Share them on global level, which can serve as example and as a change; these cultural values, which are growing, these principles and these traditions which can reach the change.
I have come from my community and now I am [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: I have come from my community and now I am here in Berlin in a "table of voices"?? I have come to this place thanks to your invitation. I've shared 100 questions; maybe I didn't do it the best way possible, but all my answers came from my heart. I've come to this place to share with all the people in the world what a leader who was born from the basis of the community, who mediates, who commits himself and governs, feels. This has been possible and I believe that the development of our peoples.
The history: We need to know that the [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: The history: We need to know that the native people and the women have iniciatives for development and are already realizing exchanges between equals, and thus we learn from each other. These silent processes in communities without showing the work which local organisations do. We must talk about these exchanges about the tough work we do in local areas, about how we make these exchanges, talking about our experiences at work, how we survive, how we fight and how we have to develop this iniciative and go further. This is the history which we have to tell. It is history that we are native people, it is history that we have tradition and culture. We must write it down so that it helps our next generations. It is history that we want to create mechanisms to change our lives, we must tell these stories, we the people who are living it.
Basically we talk ... when we talk about [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: Basically we talk ... when we talk about spirituality and god as if it were something else, it is possible that we are mistaken, but we know exactly that there are things which are contradictory, but the only thing we have to keep in mind is the way in which we are going to deal with these aspects.
We should question our leaders, we shouldn't [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: We should question our leaders, we shouldn't let bad leaders guide us. We should let good leaders guide us, because when a person leads with heart and soul it can create unity, love and transparency in the world. We will avoid wars, which lead to nothing and destroy our lives. We should make our lives and our environment flourish. We should work for our biodiversity , for secure water supply, for a secure roof over our heads and for sufficient food supply for our families.
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It's for sure that in our countries, native [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: It's for sure that in our countries, native people always have a traditional way of conserving resources. It is important to include the native communities in the project of protecting natural resources, to show them how to be able to handle the resources. We have to stop tolerating the fact that big international companies handle our resources. It's important that also the big organisations handle their own resources. It's proven that these organisations want progress and preservation of natural resources.
Being a native person I would say yes, [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: Being a native person I would say yes, because on a global level capacities of the communities of natives are already being accepted, e.g. their way of preserving the environment, how they use medical plants that make changes. We believe that in the 21st century there are still native people and that the ancestors will help not to loose the native culture.
We have to bear in mind that human beings [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: We have to bear in mind that human beings are not to be treated like in a laboratory, as if they were extraterrestrial beings. People should make genetic tests with human beings when they are sure that there will be a change, a positive result. Up to now there are no genetic engineering cures for important diseases that human beings have suffered from.
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In my opinion a child should be taught the [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: In my opinion a child should be taught the following things: knowledge and understanding of his/her culture,values,and spirituality.
Art is something we can possess and [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: Art is something we can possess and design. We can show our feelings and emotions with art. People can get inspired by art.
There is a difference between a person who [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: There is a difference between a person who has only a concept in his mind and a person who has really experienced margination and non-existence of chances. The latter situation gives you the impulse to change things, change the ideas?? about the two sexes, that there should be more chances for women, that they should have their space, that the native communities should change With this knowledge we could change the life of these people. They have to understand that the changes must begin from a basis and then continue up to the top. All this is what makes me do the job I do. I'm proud of it and feel happy working there.
Myths: myths could be persons, our [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: Myths: myths could be persons, our ancestors who came from Africa, who fought; who - still being slaves- preserved their traditions and the myth of their reality, which (so some people said) didn't have any future. All that remains today as history and myth of what happened
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We eat a lot of quimical food. The majority [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: We eat a lot of quimical food. The majority of the population don't consume organic food anymore, we have to return to consuming organic food. Also the use of lot of prefabricated food has affected people. The concept of healthy food has been lost because of eating fast-food. These habits affect our organism in the long-term, like getting stomach problems or any other problem concerning our health.
God is love, god consits in loving each [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: God is love, god consits in loving each other, he is unity, he is a place and he is el fin. God will never induce to hatred or violence, he is wisdom and he is almighty. No human being can compare himself with the almighty god. God says: " Love each other"
By protecting the cities and disclosing [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: By protecting the cities and disclosing those areas which give the city values, which gives us culture, make us taking care of those places, make us preserve historical centres, preserve histories, museums, make us having real histories which give value to feeling us like a part of people, like a part of a community of Honduras
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To establish a good knowledge one has to [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: To establish a good knowledge one has to live in a good atmosphere and one must like acquiring knowledge. A youngster must be able to see what is reality (and what not) around him, because when he/she has good qualities or skills and he doesn’t chose the bad way he/she has the possibility to do incredible things.
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Well, in my opinion, egoism was created by [...]
Ana Lucy Bengochea: Well, in my opinion, egoism was created by the loss of our values. Due to the loss of values people become egoistic;everyone thinks of his or her own prosperity instead of thinking of others. It is very important to reintroduce our values, because only a humanity with values does not know egoism.
