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What he knows he learned by watching his father and brother over and over again. At age 54, he can hold his breath for more than two minutes at 25 meters (82 feet) underwater. 30 seconds more than the average human being. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d537f77c35d4616f634ff/5e6e78969988a61549db2b60/1587327274029/2019+-+Enero+-+Marlene+ContrerasBailes+Tipicos+Folclor+Semana+Cultural+Santa+Cruz+-+Cesar+Arroyo-11.jpg Singles Marlene Contreras is a multifaceted woman. She choreographs folk dance, teaches art and is a Santa Cruz cultural leader. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d537f77c35d4616f634ff/5e6d53a217858c7cc889b19e/1587327388538/2018+-ENERO+-++Yeguita+Devocion+Baile+Cultura+Virgen++-+Cesar+Arroyo-1.jpg Singles Every December 11 the preparations for the Our Lady of Guadalupe festivities start early with three important figures as protagonists: this image of Our Lady, a wood doll and a cedar mare.⠀ ⠀ The members of the Ali Hernández family look at the statue with her new dress, holding hands, as if they were witnessing a miracle. “I wanted to dress her. My sister said to me, ‘Go for it. Maybe Our Lady wants you to dress her. I’ll help you,’” says Elizabeth Hernández, who, for many years, put flowers around Our Lady so she would grant her the miracle of having children.⠀ https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d537f77c35d4616f634ff/5e6d53a017858c7cc889b14e/1587327132874/2018+-+Marzo+-+Tope+de+toros+Liberia+Cultura+-+Cesar+Arroyo-8.jpg Singles The bullring crosses Calle Real led by masquerades and maroon. The traditional bullring, which was declared an intangible Liberian and Guanacaste cultural heritage in April 2013, is a scene frozen in time that is repeated year after year. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d537f77c35d4616f634ff/5e6d539b6089275b7c580fe4/1587326036444/2018+-+Junio+-+Fotoreportaje+bicicletas+-+Cesar+Arroyo+-+8.jpg Singles Alfonso Cuty García, 63, has had his bicycle for 43 years and uses it everyday to go to work at Santa Cruz city hall. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d537f77c35d4616f634ff/5e6d5393931e6a27c2e9826a/1587326904205/2019+-+ENERO+-+Fotoreportaje+Sinem+Imas+Nin%CC%83os+Liberia+-+Cesar+Arroyo-20.jpg Singles “Music allows me to express my feelings.” Christopher López plays the violin for his dad until he falls asleep on the porch of their house in Barrio El Capulín in Liberia. The violins that him and his sister Pamela use for practice were lent to them by the National Music Education System (Sinem) in Liberia. Music rescues dozens of children like them from many threats that they face due to poverty and social exclusion. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d537f77c35d4616f634ff/5e6d539017858c7cc889afa0/1587325937635/2019+-+Enero+-+Fotogaleria+Fiesta+Santa+Cruz+Tablado+Redondel+Monta+-+Cesar+Arroyo-2.jpg Singles Under the Santa Cruz bull ring, logs extend like an endless ribcage. Lots of people wait there from early on for the day’s rodeo to start. This is what the ring looks like from underneath where many wait for the rodeo to start. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d537f77c35d4616f634ff/5e6d538d77c35d4616f636ae/1587326350952/2019+-+Abril+-+Quijogo+Musica+Cultura+Zona+Azul+Artesanos+Musicos+-+Cesar+Arroyo-25.jpg Singles "I tell the young people that use instruments like the trumpet and the saxophone that also learn a guanacastecan. Like the marimba, the quijongo, the donkey's jaw."⁣⠀ - Isidoro Guadamuz, quijongo player.⁣⠀ https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d537f77c35d4616f634ff/5e6d538c6089275b7c580b05/1587325610407/2019+-+Mayo+-+Trans+Estudios+Liberia+LGBTIQ++-+Cesar+Arroyo-1.jpg Singles Trans women relaunched their studies. “We all have the right to study and the fact that we are physically different doesn’t have to impede our intellectual development. All we want is a lifestyle like any other person,” Bárbara said. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d537f77c35d4616f634ff/5e6d538777c35d4616f63613/1587325605470/2019+-+Fotoreportaje+Electricidad+Luz+Guanacaste++-+Cesar+Arroyo-22.jpg Singles Elizabeth Avilés, who wakes up at 5 a.m. to go to school without any alarm other than her biological clock. She’s 13 and goes to the Corralillo Technical Professional High School a few minutes from her home in San Antonio, Nicoya. The room where Elizabeth studies is, by far, the brightest area in the house. That’s where she does her homework while daylight allows. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d537f77c35d4616f634ff/5e6d53809988a61549b860e7/1587325599643/IMG_1900.jpg Singles Vanessa Centeno Rodríguez, 41, calls herself the first transgender in Guanacaste. She’s about to take the last two courses to earn her bachelor's degree. She hasn’t lived her life, she has just survived. She breaths and says “I keep moving forward.” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d537f77c35d4616f634ff/5e6d537f77c35d4616f63500/1587326968177/2019+-+Febrero+-+PERFIL+Bombera+Forestal+La+Cruz+Lucrecia+Pastrana+-+Cesar+Arroyo-17.jpg Singles Lucrecia organized two generations of brigade members who, in addition to putting out fires, conduct recycling campaigns, set up garbage cans and give talks in their community, in La Cruz, Guanacaste. https://www.dialento.com/mobilestreet daily 0.75 2020-03-15 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d5511a53943154a9530c6/5e6d551217858c7cc889ec96/1587337747838/9EB64065-FEF3-4902-BBD4-A8E065C5F775.jpg MobileStreet Cañas, Guanacaste. 2019. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d5511a53943154a9530c6/5e6d551250eead5473ba04fd/1587327958108/IMG_1574.jpg MobileStreet Fexhe-le-Haut-Clocher. 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Uruguay. 2018. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d5511a53943154a9530c6/5e6d555977c35d4616f67cd1/1587337832871/IMG_1337.jpg MobileStreet Arles, France. 2019. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d5511a53943154a9530c6/5e6d556773af576a4f71a3e6/1587337818767/162D5DD5-0B33-4AE3-B031-C7A25960E546.jpg MobileStreet Nicoya, Guanacaste. 2018. https://www.dialento.com/home daily 1.0 2020-07-26 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/t/5e6d50060f431516e17be110/1595782891655/Chejo home Sergio "Chejo" Girón is a fisherman from the coast of Samara, in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Pollution and climate change has made his job harder every year. https://www.dialento.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-07-26 https://www.dialento.com/about daily 0.75 2020-07-26 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/t/5f1dccc3637dc1200723fb7b/1595788882907/39c517b1-44ba-43f1-80c5-860a37b5a54e.jpg about https://www.dialento.com/erc daily 0.75 2020-03-15 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d61616f379e1858933234/5e6d616177c35d4616f87985/1595783684456/IMG_7431.jpg ERC I was alone that day. I arrived and I started to work the water. Around 8am in the morning I felt a pain as though everything was cramping up on me. I said, what’s happening? And I thought, I’m going to rest here and maybe someone will come. I lied down beneath some cane plants and no one came. It was one o’clock and I was there. I thought to myself, ‘I feel stiff.’ I pulled myself up as best I could and got on the motorcycle and turned it on. I had my legs wide open because I couldn’t close them because of the cramps. I got home and this one (his wife) called an ambulance. - Dimas López Carrillo, kidney patient. Bagaces, Guanacaste. July, 2018. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d61616f379e1858933234/5e6d6161c3035453bfc6b306/1595783751946/IMG_8070-2.jpg ERC Enrique Quirós Quirós is a CKD patient who lost his kidneys because of the disease. Bagaces, Guanacaste. July, 2018. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d61616f379e1858933234/5e6d6167d0babc2b371be970/1595783676557/ERC+2.jpg ERC When they told me about the disease, I laughed and the doctor got after me. I told him, I will take care of him. Then a doctor came and told me that it could be hereditary. My grandfather died because of it and I have an aunt who died because of kidney failure. My aunt lived in Cañas and my grandfather in Upala. But they didn’t say anything to me. They think it could have been the sugarcane because back then you would show up, put a pump and everything on your back and it would drip. It’s a product that has fertilizer and a very hot liquid. You feel like your back is burning. That was on our plot of land. Working here (milling rice instead of working on his mom’s land) is the same or harder than in the fields. Because here you have to show up, put the rice in and put your shoulder into it. When I used to work watering rice or spraying, there were weeks that I did 50,000 or 60,000. Not here. Here it’s per hector (of rice) milled. There are fortnights when I grab 14, 15, 30 (in thousands of colons). It varies. It depends on how much you mill. - Carlos Boliche, kidney patient. Bagaces, Guanacaste. July, 2018. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d61616f379e1858933234/5e6d6168186dd459365fd55f/1595783665782/ERC+0.jpg ERC I realized it when I was working and I would arrive home and in the afternoon I would get feverish. I kept working that way and after that I went to the insurance company and they told me that I had the disease. That was about 10 years ago. Now I take a treatment, pills and creatinine. I’m still working in the rice and sugar fields. I go at six in the morning until 10, but the boss pays me for eight hours and the insurance and everything. He’s a good boss. They give me the treatment. The told me that it surely comes from the water and the sun. They told me not to get too much sun. I have the last name of my dad’s wife. García is from my stepmother. My birth mom is sick in Nicaragua. She used to work in landscaping, along the channels, rice fields, he worked in the hills of Rancho Horizonte. We worked from 5am to 5pm there. I worked there several years, Mojica too in Taboga in Guanacaste. I had a friend here and he told me that he was going to come and that he had a job for me. I have three children. All three are studying. One of them is in kindergarten, another one is in grade school and the third is in high school. - Israel Lazo, kidney patient. Bagaces, Guanacaste. July, 2018. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d61616f379e1858933234/5e6d616d9988a61549bab4cd/1595783694729/ERC+1.jpg ERC Pedro Alvarado Quirós has to go to Hospital Mexico three times a week to change all his blood with a machine. Bagaces, Guanacaste. July, 2018. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d61616f379e1858933234/5e6d616ea53943154a977772/1595783711667/ERC+9.jpg ERC All that’s left of Bernardo Quirós and Luis Segundo, mortal victims of CKD, are these pictures on the wall of Juana Quirós’s, Bernardo’s widow and Luis’s mother-in-law. Bagaces, Guanacaste. July, 2018. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d61616f379e1858933234/5e6d617121ba4c55431b3ab2/1595783723967/ERC+8.jpg ERC I got the shivers and it felt like tachycardia. I lied down in the bed and my whole body was trembling. It’s a good thing the room was ready for dialysis because my dad also had kidney failure and we had been preparing the room little by little for dialysis for him. But now I have to use it. The doctor said that I have to use it because I’m the most urgent case. - Diego Quirós Martínez, kidney patient. Bagaces, Guanacaste. July, 2018. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d61616f379e1858933234/5e6d6174a53943154a9777ee/1595783745004/ERC+6.jpg ERC Carlos Boliche, kidney patient, shows his scars from dialysis while he works milling rice. Bagaces, Guanacaste. July, 2018. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d61616f379e1858933234/5e6d617877c35d4616f87e72/1595783730674/ERC+5.jpg ERC Enrique Quirós undergoes peritoneal dialysis at home every six hours. Bagaces, Guanacaste. July, 2018. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d61616f379e1858933234/5e6d61790f431516e17ee5b6/1595783701797/ERC+4.jpg ERC They operated on us on September 21, 2011. Back then my dad was suffering a lot because I couldn’t donate because I had hypertension. I told her that if there was no problem that I could donate a kindey because she was suffering so much. That’s why I made the decision. My brother went directly into hemodialysis and he had to travel Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday because at the beginning he would lose a lot of liquid and other nutrients, so he would leave disoriented and we had to accompany him because he would get dizzy sometimes. I had a two-year-old son. My other brothers, the oldest, couldn’t because he was a different blood type and he was exposed to chemicals. The one who hadn’t been in contact with chemicals was me. We had other sisters but they were underage. - Marisela Boliche, kidney donor. Bagaces, Guanacaste. July, 2018. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d61616f379e1858933234/5e6d617cea160c0c829ca58e/1595783737854/ERC+3.jpg ERC I have a disease they call kidney failure. It got worse now that I lost the implant and now i’m back to square one, waiting to see if a kidney arrives, that is of God wants to give me a kidney in order to get through this. I noticed the disease when I started to get thin, vomit and feel weak. I got cramps all over my body. The treatment is a 1.5-liter bag of saline solution and i use it every six hours. You have to stick in your stomach in order to clean out all the poison because its poison that is in the stomach and in your body. As long as the kidney doesn’t work, food and water is poison. That’s why I swell up sometimes. The taste in your mouth is horrible, awful. It tastes like silver in your mouth. - Enrique Quirós Quirós, kidney patient. Bagaces, Guanacaste. July, 2018. https://www.dialento.com/pica-de-lea daily 0.75 2020-03-14 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d6367c3035453bfc70397/5e6d63a48afded74f5294853/1587319393987/2017+-+NOVIEMBRE+-++Pica+e+len%CC%83a+cofradia+Fiestas+-+Cesar+Aroyo+5.jpg Pica de leña Starting early on, you can drink tiste (a drink of chocolate with rice), chicheme and distilled nanche. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d6367c3035453bfc70397/5e6d63a450eead5473bc9659/1587319332194/2017+-+NOVIEMBRE+-++Pica+e+len%CC%83a+cofradia+Fiestas+comida+-+Cesar+Aroyo+2.jpg Pica de leña Woodcutters start arriving at the Guild at 4a.m. to eat breakfast. Afterwards, they take off in a truck or on foot to a field at the La Cruz hill (or Las Cruces as it was known before because of its three crossings) where the wood is cut every year. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d6367c3035453bfc70397/5e6d6398186dd45936602a8f/1587319422542/2017+-+NOVIEMBRE+-++Pica+e+len%CC%83a+cofradia+Fiestas+chicheme+-+Cesar+Aroyo+8.jpg Pica de leña Miss Azucena hands out chicheme to those in attendance at the Woodchopping Festival and asks for the calabashes to be returned because they will be used during December’s festivities. She is the woman of indigenous descent who has participated the longest in the guild’s festivities. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d6367c3035453bfc70397/5e6d638f9988a61549bb0a56/1587319348131/2017+-+NOVIEMBRE+-++Pica+e+len%CC%83a+cofradia+Fiestas+comida+len%CC%83ador-+Cesar+Aroyo+9.jpg Pica de leña While people come from far away places like San Jose to observe the Pica e Leña festival, the activity is attended mainly by residents of Curime, Las Casitas, Mansión, San Antonio, downtown Nicoya and other nearby communities. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d6367c3035453bfc70397/5e6d638e73af576a4f73fd4f/1587319405153/2017+-+NOVIEMBRE+-++Pica+e+len%CC%83a+cofradia+Fiestas+comida+guaro-+Cesar+Aroyo+11.jpg Pica de leña Starting early on, you can drink tiste (a drink of chocolate with rice), chicheme and distilled nanche. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d6367c3035453bfc70397/5e6d6388fd82d42cb25367ee/1587319458357/2017+-+NOVIEMBRE+-++Pica+e+len%CC%83a+cofradia+Fiestas+comida+agricultor+-+Cesar+Aroyo+10.jpg Pica de leña An oxherd waits for a lunch of creole food that the guild’s cooks will hand out for free while the wood carts are filled before they return in a parade to downtown Nicoya. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d6367c3035453bfc70397/5e6d637d6089275b7c5abcc7/1587319480619/2017+-+NOVIEMBRE+-++Pica+e+len%CC%83a+cofradia+Fiestas+comida+bueyes-+Cesar+Aroyo+15.jpg Pica de leña This year, more than 50 carts paraded down the streets of the colonial city. Some came from places as far away as Sarchí. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d6367c3035453bfc70397/5e6d637dea160c0c829d0ac8/1587319442280/2017+-+NOVIEMBRE+-++Pica+e+len%CC%83a+cofradia+Fiestas+comida+parrandera+cimarrona-+Cesar+Aroyo+12.jpg Pica de leña Once chopped and collected, all the wood will be used in the next year’s festivities. The woodcutters and the carriers return together with carts and bands to downtown Nicoya. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d6367c3035453bfc70397/5e6d6372186dd459366026c4/1587319314965/2017+-+NOVIEMBRE+-++Pica+e+len%CC%83a+cofradia+Fiestas+comida+-+Cesar+Aroyo+1.jpg Pica de leña Cooks arrive at the Guild at 2 a.m. to begin their tasks. This year, several cows were sacrificed in order to feed all the participants of the woodchopping tradition, called Pica e leña in Spanish. “The large quantity of beef that is offered up during the festivities was what Spanish colonists used in order to stop the human sacrifices that the Chorotega indigenous tribes used to do,” says Nicoyan historian and writer Carlos Arauz. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d6367c3035453bfc70397/5e6d63670f431516e17f3ad9/1587319370475/2017+-+NOVIEMBRE+-++PORTADA+len%CC%83adores+pica+e+len%CC%83a+-+Cesar+Arroyo.jpg Pica de leña By indigenous tradition, wood must be chopped in a field south of town at the foot of the La Cruz hill on a date no later than November 12. https://www.dialento.com/black-gold daily 0.75 2020-03-14 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d65c017858c7cc88cbd98/5e6d660c6089275b7c5b2dac/1587319190569/areneros-10.jpg Black Gold The sand excavators start working at 2 a.m. Starting early is better for them and for the oxen so they avoid the high temperatures of the day. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d65c017858c7cc88cbd98/5e6d65c6fd82d42cb253c130/1587319032325/areneros-14.jpg Black Gold Omar Medina unloads the sand on one of the piles. The Association receives around 250 cubic meters of sand per day. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d65c017858c7cc88cbd98/5e6d65c5186dd45936607fc8/1587319209616/areneros-13.jpg Black Gold This is how one of the sand piles looks before being taken to the Tempisque Valley Sand Excavators Association, where intermediaries market it. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d65c017858c7cc88cbd98/5e6d65c2931e6a27c2ec99a9/1587319052463/areneros-7.jpg Black Gold Luis Jarquin removes four boatloads of sand a day, which is equivalent to about ¢14,000 (about $23.30). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d65c017858c7cc88cbd98/5e6d65c277c35d4616f92dbe/1587319140856/areneros-6.jpg Black Gold Byron moves his panga downstream to unload it. Laborers like him earn between ¢3,500 and ¢5,000 (about $5.80 to $8.50) for each boat filled with sand, depending on the size of the boat. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d65c017858c7cc88cbd98/5e6d65c1ea160c0c829d656b/1587319124074/areneros-3.jpg Black Gold Luis Jarquin goes under water with a bucket to collect sand and throw it into his boat. Tempisque sand excavators have been working in the same way since the middle of the last century. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d65c017858c7cc88cbd98/5e6d65c10f431516e17fa4b0/1587319014569/areneros-1.jpg Black Gold The area known as La Isleta is one of several points where sand excavators have been granted concessions to extract material. https://www.dialento.com/needles daily 0.75 2020-07-26 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d68888afded74f52a0254/5e6d6888fd82d42cb2544212/1587317328891/2019+-+Noviembre+-+25N+bordados+contra+el+femicidio++-+Cesar+Arroyo-1.jpg Needles “I, Anyi Melisa Obando Zuñiga, lived in Huacas. I was just 28 years old when my partner took my life by suffocating me with a pillow on his birthday.” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d68888afded74f52a0254/5e6d688977c35d4616f9a6b1/1587317332198/2019+-+Noviembre+-+25N+bordados+contra+el+femicidio++-+Cesar+Arroyo-2.jpg Needles “My name was Sandra Lorena Fonseca Jimenez. I was pregnant when I was killed by my husband. I was 18 years old. He killed me in bed, then threw me into a well tied to a sack full of stones.” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d68888afded74f52a0254/5e6d688b8afded74f52a02ac/1587317335374/2019+-+Noviembre+-+25N+bordados+contra+el+femicidio++-+Cesar+Arroyo-3.jpg Needles “Hi … I’m Melina Calvo Arce. I lived in Tibas. I was a teenage mother. I was 23 when my partner killed me, cutting me with a machete on Saturday afternoon at 5:40 p.m. “Violence took my life” “The one who keeps quiet … Dies” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d68888afded74f52a0254/5e6d688c50eead5473bd60d0/1587317339327/2019+-+Noviembre+-+25N+bordados+contra+el+femicidio++-+Cesar+Arroyo-4.jpg Needles “I’m Ivannia Patricia Reyes Navarro. I am 25 years old. I am a mother of 3 children. I was in a relationship for 6 months with the man who killed me with five bullets.” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d68888afded74f52a0254/5e6d688ec3035453bfc7ddc9/1587317342408/2019+-+Noviembre+-+25N+bordados+contra+el+femicidio++-+Cesar+Arroyo-5.jpg Needles “I’m Angie Melissa Obando. I lived in Huacas of Santa Cruz, until I lost my life strangled by my partner’s hands. After doing it, he personally sent photos to my family. I was very young. I was just 27 years old. “I never expected my own boyfriend to extinguish my dreams” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d68888afded74f52a0254/5e6d688f50eead5473bd61b3/1587317345380/2019+-+Noviembre+-+25N+bordados+contra+el+femicidio++-+Cesar+Arroyo-6.jpg Needles “My name was Eliette Sanchez. My partner cut my throat in the house where I worked. I was only 23 years old. I was just beginning to live and he denied me that opportunity by taking my life. “Enough is enough; we have the right to live” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d68888afded74f52a0254/5e6d689191b9d045dd776ea8/1587317349984/2019+-+Noviembre+-+25N+bordados+contra+el+femicidio++-+Cesar+Arroyo-7.jpg Needles “I’m Ingrid Hernandez Mayorga. I worked as a housekeeper to support my children when my ex-partner killed me with a blow to the head and two stabs. My children saw me die.” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d68888afded74f52a0254/5e6d6892186dd4593660ebee/1587317355876/2019+-+Noviembre+-+25N+bordados+contra+el+femicidio++-+Cesar+Arroyo-8.jpg Needles “I am Rocio Sandi. I am 13 years old. After a month and a half living together, my 16-year-old partner injured my neck, taking my life. I had high hopes for my life.” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cec60da6530d900010076e7/5e6d68888afded74f52a0254/5e6d68956f379e1858945bf3/1587317373111/2019+-+Noviembre+-+25N+bordados+contra+el+femicidio++-+Cesar+Arroyo-9.jpg Needles “My name is Rosibel, 41 years old. 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