Todo Por La Pulga
First published in East Side Magazine, July/Aug/Sept. 2021 Yei edition.
What is solidarity? Is it a raised fist? Is it marching shoulder to shoulder? Breaking bread at the same table? Or is it holding up a sign in loud silence?
For Roberto Gonzalez, the first thing that comes to mind when he thinks about solidarity are his sisters.
“Son unas cabronas, pero las amo un chingo and no matter what, I’ll be there for them,” he says with a laugh. “You know how Mexicans are, nos agarramos del chongo but when it matters, we are always there for each other.”
And things have never mattered so much.
