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 My name is Leticia Roblero Quiquiuij and I’m 25 years old.
Today we live in the community Santa Anita. Its been 8 years since we formed part of it, and really, it was a big change for us after living many years in another country (Mexico). Now, after 36 years of war and the rise of the peace accords, we have the opportunity to learn about the path that my father lived during the armed conflict, he was a member of the Organization of the People in Arms ORPA.
We got here on the 16th of February, 1999, two years after the signing of the Peace Accords. The war had finished but the economic crisis persisted, and although we had land and places to live, we had no way to pay for education. We thought that the only way to help each other was to unite and organize ourselves to fight for a better future. It was in this way that four friends and I got together and began talking about our situation and we thought of how we might be able to contribute to obtain funds. We decided to speak with Lynn Hannen, the former director of the Escuela de Español la Montaña. She proposed that we work for her and she gave us the opportunity to give conferences to groups of foreign students. We spoke about the different experiences that our parents had had in the war, and about the reasons why they had incorporated in the guerilla front. We also talked about the experiences that we had being in another country.
During this time, we also united the compañeros who had just begun to study and the group grew: we were 8 students in the group but we became 17. Because of the help of Lynn Hannen we continued fighting so that the group would not go without education. After education comes the experiences of working, and it is there where one begins to contribute more to our fight because we prepared ourselves to support our people, to help them out of injustice and not to be simply one more professional. Today and always we will be thinking as a whole to join forces and fight for our own.
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