Sensemayá

This is a santería song, to kill a snake.  Listen to the drums, echoing up from the town squares and down from the mountains. Canto para matar una culebra. ¡Mayombe—bombe—mayombé! ¡Mayombe—bombe—mayombé! ¡Mayombe—bombe—mayombé! La culebra tiene los ojos de vidrio; la culebra viene y se enreda en un palo; con sus ojos de vidrio, en un … More Sensemayá

Big Medicine

Yesterday, 1 November, Big Medicine posted excellent recapitulation of recent events in Oaxaca, with shocking new news. Pinko Feminist Hellcat had a good post on Oaxaca yesterday as well. This article, on fighting in the streets, written in the present tense, is eleven minutes old as I link to it. The Spanish language Wikipedia offers … More Big Medicine