I followed the young woman in the pink top as she carried the fragile little girl across the garbage-strewn beach, past the carcasses of rotting fishing boats, along the open sewers that ran the length of her impoverished village … to a tiny one-room shanty set beneath a giant Jacaranda, out from under the blazing impertinence of the Colombian sun. …
Think of all the words (in English, now)we have for “bringing death”…like Eskimos for “snow.”The Cides family: Matri and Patri, Infanti and Fratri,Homo, and Geno, and Sui.Assassination for the one; massacre, the many.There’s slaughter, manslaughter, execution (divine retribution) and murder (in degrees).There’s putting down (to euthanize)and taking out (refers to spies),kill, annihilate, destroy.Much to our astonishment,there’s still capital punishment.And,…