I was born in Cabezón de la Sal, Cantabria, on January 3, 1953. It was the time when people were still born at home and also died at home, where there were strong family environments with many more lights than shadows, in the midst of the huge shadows of a country where freedom of opinion, of worship and of anything else, could make you end up with your bones in jail.
I am 72 years old from a complicated time in that Spain of “charanga and tambourine, closed and sacristy” but I was fortunate to be the daughter of a teacher mother, a practicing teacher, who taught us the value of being independent and free as far as possible.
I have been a civil servant for 38 years, activist of a thousand causes, many times lost, but that I considered and still consider necessary. Unionist, militant, opposed to a gray and dark Spain and paid in several things, the price that this entailed, but I am happy to have been part of a generation of resistance, who thought, fought and dreamed, to change our country and now … the world.
We have not been very successful, but we have made some progress in the country, although we have regressed in an increasingly cruel and indifferent world.
I am interested in almost everything, music, reading, theater, activism, and even though I am not a specialist in anything, I am still interested in the world and in life.
On this journey, I am accompanied by a little dog that for the last 4 years has given me and continues to give me warmth and companionship.
I joined the project last year, by chance, and I am delighted.
It has forced me to remember, to organize the past and to answer questions from people who have ahead of them the uncertainty of the future and the curiosity for a world they did not know.
In return…their concerns, their freshness, their interest in the world and in life, and their removal of all your prejudices of generation and country.
It is worthwhile, helpful, refreshing and in many cases, it restores illusion, consciousness and conscience.