That morning was like no other. Don Pancho got up very early and went straight to the portal of the estate that is toward the east. It was wrapped in a big black blanket that gave to the feet and eyes sunk to his beige cowboy hat with broad brim and from there went to see the sunrise on the farthest horizon. The sun was about to emerge from the bottom of the landscape. The clouds turn purple and the whole field, moistened by the dew, I took a beautiful golden color, forming a kind of kaleidoscopic figure the birds were flying everywhere, dancing acompañdos of countless colorful butterflies going from flower to flower.
Don Pancho, was small in stature, dark-colored, slightly overweight, with a prominent belly. His father had been the chief of the village. His face had the characteristics of the indigenous race: dark straight hair, aquiline nose, short, white big teeth, big lips and mouth with a big mustache that fell by the edge. No one would believe he could be master of anything, much less of that great hacienda, more like a humble servant of that great place.
Perhaps the remarkable thing was his eyes large, bright, piercing and observers. In their talks, the fixed steadfastly maintained with whom speech produced a strange effect, as if his eyes were like steel beams that pierced the eyes of those who were dirigidos.No was much given to talking, did not say many words, but when was necessary to correct a mistake, gave very clear and precise orders and commanding tone. He always wore short sentences. people obeyed him, never scolded him. On the other hand never abused his position. He treated everyone with respect and kindness, but a firm, concise and strict.
He broke Don Pancho concentration trot of horses were heard along the way. As a country boy who was looking and fine ear, immediately distinguished from twilight shadows still hidden by the side of the grassy knoll, some silhouettes of three riders advancing to the hacienda. They came on horses of those who used to go down and climb hills in arid lands.
They were individuals who had been doing a long tour of the region, through farms and villages to purchase horses and cattle that they could be used to plow the field. It brought some heads and wanted to add about twenty more.
Don Pancho asked to sell them some animals of which he had at his ranch. Don Pancho said they had no animals for sale. And at that precise moment, step by like lightning imagianciòn a series of images that broke her heart:A field full of thistles and grass. Cerro Pelon. Wire falls everywhere. Dry land, without trees. Lean and hungry horses. A great desolation.- "So sell their animals or not, Don Pancho"Don Pancho, like a horrible nightmare desperantando, responding with joy and great courage in her voice:'No, gentlemen, I also planted yo.Ya I said, here not sell any animal, there is nothing for sale.
The truth is otherwise, modernity promised in the XXI century banish the scourge of hunger and no one wants to occupy the field and more than one billion people around the world have no access to food they require and the number of hungry and undernourished is increasing every day.
Excessive greed and poor distribution, and a shortage trend to control market prices, encourages speculation and rising prices of agricultural products. To all this we must add the most serious emergency resulting from climate change, with its hurricanes, heavy rains and overflowing rivers that end up with the little that farmers have. And as a corollary, all those phenomena caused by excessive industrialization and urbanization of the countryside.
Today, not only is food shortage, but other basics such as drinking water, of course, also, arable land, fisheries, energy, shelter, medicine. Apparently, at the beginning of the third millennium, we sunrise with a globalized food bottleneck that threatens to end the whole world not very long term. The suit, in a world that tends to overpopulation, and the available supply alacanzò so we are installed in a real dilemma of food shortage crisis and other basic elements necessary for the survival of the species.
The economic slowdown and increased social inequality with poverty of many nations, are being combined with the energy crisis and climate change, this puts the world on the threshold of hunger affecting more than one billion people in the earth.
We will have to do to him as Don Pancho: Applied to our fields with a holistic approach to self-sufficiency and return as soon as possible, short and medium term, not to sell any material assets of our nationals. Will this be another dream of a good Mexican lightning that just will not digest the nightmare we live in and to come to both disastrous and devastating natural event that plagues our impoverished Mexico?
Don Pancho, was small in stature, dark-colored, slightly overweight, with a prominent belly. His father had been the chief of the village. His face had the characteristics of the indigenous race: dark straight hair, aquiline nose, short, white big teeth, big lips and mouth with a big mustache that fell by the edge. No one would believe he could be master of anything, much less of that great hacienda, more like a humble servant of that great place.
Perhaps the remarkable thing was his eyes large, bright, piercing and observers. In their talks, the fixed steadfastly maintained with whom speech produced a strange effect, as if his eyes were like steel beams that pierced the eyes of those who were dirigidos.No was much given to talking, did not say many words, but when was necessary to correct a mistake, gave very clear and precise orders and commanding tone. He always wore short sentences. people obeyed him, never scolded him. On the other hand never abused his position. He treated everyone with respect and kindness, but a firm, concise and strict.
He broke Don Pancho concentration trot of horses were heard along the way. As a country boy who was looking and fine ear, immediately distinguished from twilight shadows still hidden by the side of the grassy knoll, some silhouettes of three riders advancing to the hacienda. They came on horses of those who used to go down and climb hills in arid lands.
They were individuals who had been doing a long tour of the region, through farms and villages to purchase horses and cattle that they could be used to plow the field. It brought some heads and wanted to add about twenty more.
Don Pancho asked to sell them some animals of which he had at his ranch. Don Pancho said they had no animals for sale. And at that precise moment, step by like lightning imagianciòn a series of images that broke her heart:A field full of thistles and grass. Cerro Pelon. Wire falls everywhere. Dry land, without trees. Lean and hungry horses. A great desolation.- "So sell their animals or not, Don Pancho"Don Pancho, like a horrible nightmare desperantando, responding with joy and great courage in her voice:'No, gentlemen, I also planted yo.Ya I said, here not sell any animal, there is nothing for sale.
The truth is otherwise, modernity promised in the XXI century banish the scourge of hunger and no one wants to occupy the field and more than one billion people around the world have no access to food they require and the number of hungry and undernourished is increasing every day.
Excessive greed and poor distribution, and a shortage trend to control market prices, encourages speculation and rising prices of agricultural products. To all this we must add the most serious emergency resulting from climate change, with its hurricanes, heavy rains and overflowing rivers that end up with the little that farmers have. And as a corollary, all those phenomena caused by excessive industrialization and urbanization of the countryside.
Today, not only is food shortage, but other basics such as drinking water, of course, also, arable land, fisheries, energy, shelter, medicine. Apparently, at the beginning of the third millennium, we sunrise with a globalized food bottleneck that threatens to end the whole world not very long term. The suit, in a world that tends to overpopulation, and the available supply alacanzò so we are installed in a real dilemma of food shortage crisis and other basic elements necessary for the survival of the species.
The economic slowdown and increased social inequality with poverty of many nations, are being combined with the energy crisis and climate change, this puts the world on the threshold of hunger affecting more than one billion people in the earth.
We will have to do to him as Don Pancho: Applied to our fields with a holistic approach to self-sufficiency and return as soon as possible, short and medium term, not to sell any material assets of our nationals. Will this be another dream of a good Mexican lightning that just will not digest the nightmare we live in and to come to both disastrous and devastating natural event that plagues our impoverished Mexico?
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