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You’ve already eaten the body of Francisco Morazán...
and now you want to eat Honduras
You need to be slapped
given electric shocks
psychoanalysed
to return to your true self

— Roque Dalton

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Laws are created to be followed
by the poor.
Laws are made by the rich
to bring some order to exploitation.
The poor are the only law abiders in history.
When the poor make laws
the rich will be no more.

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