{"id":54870,"date":"2024-04-01T09:27:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T14:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/?p=54870"},"modified":"2024-04-01T09:27:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T14:27:27","slug":"solecito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/solecito\/","title":{"rendered":"Solecito"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Written by<\/strong>:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/people\/alex-maldonado-lizardi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0Alex Maldonado-Lizardi<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/people\/xiomara-cintron-garcia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Xiomara Cintron-Garcia<\/a>\u00a0who serve with the Christian Centre for Justice, Peace and Nonviolent Action (Justapaz), Bogota, Colombia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m keen to break the war into a thousand pieces.\u201d -Gioconda Belli<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image_67507457-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image_67507457-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image_67507457-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image_67507457-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image_67507457-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image_67507457-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Martha Soley, better known as \u201cSolecito\u201d, was born on August 25, 1962 in Palestine, a village of the municipality of Salento, Quind\u00edo. She is the eldest of four sisters, from a purely farmer family, and she spent all her time on the family farm. But her father abandoned them when Martha was three years old. Then her mother married another man who took on the role of father for Martha and her sisters. Her biological father died seven years ago and her stepfather ten years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was 18 years old when she finished high school. It was 1980 and she had left Salento looking for new life horizons in Bogot\u00e1. There she got married and had three sons and a daughter. However, her husband abandoned her for another woman and 15 years later. Martha returned to Quind\u00edo, aged 33, with all the broken dreams of a violent marriage, and four children to raise. On top of everything, just returning to the well-known coffee region, her foster brother was murdered because of a revenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is difficult for a woman to restart her life like this. Always facing the imprudence of incriminating questions about the home economy: \u201cAnd how are you going to support those children? Who supports you?\u201d That same year she tried to go to college, but she couldn&#8217;t continue: \u201cI had to raise my children alone, so I had to work to be able to support them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG-20240228-WA0048-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG-20240228-WA0048-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG-20240228-WA0048-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG-20240228-WA0048-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG-20240228-WA0048-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG-20240228-WA0048.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Who can still sustain that violence does not affect women in a very particular way; women who are left alone and cry in unique ways; women who on more than one occasion work for different reasons and towards goals that they did not choose; women who care for everyone when no one cares for them, and for whom their political strength comes from the daily grind and not from the usual abstraction?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, just a few years ago, Martha had to switch her phone number. She was helping in a political campaign in Circasia when she received a call that sentenced her: \u201cPolitical lefties die with their mouths full of flies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do we do with the fear, with the danger of being a woman and having a voice?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Justapaz\u2019s human rights report, <em>A Prophetic Call #16<\/em>, and the monitoring exercise of the OSEAS observatory, 633 Christian-evangelical women were victims of 166 acts of violence associated with the Colombian armed conflict only from 1986 to 2012. They are women who, during this turmoil, served in their churches, who led services, who preached and consoled people, who taught Sunday Bible Schools and coordinated Bible studies, who sang in worship ministries and visited the sick in their homes: pastors, deaconesses, presidents of ministries, leaders of their communities. Women whose bodies constantly move between attacks on the civilian population and unto religious freedom, actions of intolerance, political persecution, sexual violence, and kidnapping. But these are women whose leadership and afflictions fade from the panorama since in more than one instance men are the ones who achieve some title as leaders of their communities, thus projecting both their voices and their experiences. Therefore, it is more difficult for women to talk about the effects of the armed conflict on culture and faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Martha:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c&#8230;many times, people assume that one must remain silent in the face of injustices, that one cannot take sides and that one has to remain silent in the face of crimes and things that happen. So, the implication of this as a woman of faith is that what they want is for us to remain silent, because if you believe in God, then you have to remain silent and let God work and not say anything against nobody\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, despite all this expectation of silence, it is clear for her: \u201cRemaining in that lukewarmness does not conform to what Jesus taught us. Jesus taught us to be radical in defending the rights of human beings. He defended the poor, the humble, the afflicted, the excluded, and that is my example.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a general total of 439 victimized women in 26 years of monitoring by the observatory, 422 women did not register any participation in a social organization, while 17 of them stated that they had been part of a social organization, mainly in communities and entities linked to communal actions, foundations, and unions, as well as various religious and confessional organizations. Additionally, it is seen that the role that these women developed within social organizations corresponded mainly to the development of tasks related to coordination and community leadership roles, as well as participation in the processes developed by their organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Silences also operate when women do not find how to recognize their community participation towards all the good that exists in their territories, invisibilized by violence, home-made bomb cylinders, shootings and bombs that apparently only affect men in the mass media reports. Because although analysis of mass violence does not usually include collective violence against women and their bodies, much less do they testify to their multiple forms of resistance, says sociologist Cristina S\u00e1nchez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Gloria Esperanza Laverde Mendoza, member of the motor committee for the Ecumenical Group of Peacebuilding Women \u2013 GemPaz \u2013, our ideas about reconciliation find a way to expand only when women\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cname our feminine practices and their effect on women&#8217;s bodies\/territory. Assuming individual corporality as one&#8217;s unique and unrepeatable territory allows women to strengthen the sense of affirmation of their existence of being and being in the world. Therefore, self-awareness emerges, which gives account of how this body has lived in its personal and temporal history, the different manifestations and expressions of patriarchies and all the oppressions derived from them (Cabnal, 2010).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no reconciliation when there are silences, when we do not have the capacity to name what life goes through and the bodies that sustain it in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Martha, who decided not to stop loving and stubbornly opted for love, every time she offered a workshop at women\u2019s meetings at communities of faith or with rural women or women from the public area, through awareness-raising or violence prevention workshops in ecumenical spaces for women of faith, where she shares, from the perspective and the study of biblical passages, how Jesus speaks to us about women&#8217;s rights. From there, she supports women who are direct victims of violence, helps them, accompanies, directs,<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG-20240228-WA0046-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG-20240228-WA0046-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG-20240228-WA0046-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG-20240228-WA0046-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG-20240228-WA0046-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG-20240228-WA0046.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201ctelling them where to go, what steps to take, and making simple connections whenever I can. If they are not women of faith, then I accompany them, giving them follow-up, and telling them what paths they should take or the routes to follow so that they can find legal and psychological support.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All this, because without love no one advocates for anything, nor is there communion or community or citizenship or cities or towns. Without love there is only noise in the street.<a id=\"_ftnref1\" href=\"#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cQue ganas tengo de partir la guerra en mil pedazos\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Gioconda Belli<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Martha Soley, mejor conocida como \u201cSolecito\u201d, naci\u00f3 el 25 de agosto de 1962 en la vereda Palestina del municipio de Salento, Quind\u00edo. Es la mayor de cuatro hermanas, de familia netamente campesina y todo el tiempo se la pasaba en la finca. Pero su padre las abandon\u00f3 cuando Martha ten\u00eda 3 a\u00f1os. Luego su mam\u00e1 se cas\u00f3 con otro se\u00f1or el cual fue la figura paterna para Martha y sus hermanas. Su padre biol\u00f3gico falleci\u00f3 hace cinco a\u00f1os y su padrastro hace ocho.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ten\u00eda 18 a\u00f1os cuando termin\u00f3 su bachillerato. Era 1980 y hab\u00eda salido de Salento buscando nuevos rumbos en Bogot\u00e1. All\u00e1 se cas\u00f3 y tuvo tres hijos y una hija. Sin embargo, su marido la abandon\u00f3 por otra mujer y 15 a\u00f1os m\u00e1s tarde, regres\u00f3 al Quind\u00edo, con 33 a\u00f1os, todos los sue\u00f1os rotos de un matrimonio de violencia, y cuatro hijos a los que sacar adelante. Encima de todo apenas regresando a la ciudad cafetera, su hermano de crianza fue asesinado a ra\u00edz de una venganza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Es dif\u00edcil para una mujer reiniciar la vida as\u00ed. Siempre enfrentando la imprudencia de preguntas inculpatorias sobre la econom\u00eda del hogar: \u201c\u00bfy c\u00f3mo vas a mantener a esos muchachos? \u00bfqui\u00e9n te mantiene a ti?\u201d Ese mismo a\u00f1o intent\u00f3 pasar a la universidad, pero no pudo continuar: \u201cMe toc\u00f3 criar a mis hijos sola, entonces me tuve que dedicar a trabajar para poderlos sacar adelante.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00bfQui\u00e9n a\u00fan puede afirmar que la violencia no toca a las mujeres de una forma muy particular; que quedan solas y lloran de formas \u00fanicas; que en m\u00e1s de una ocasi\u00f3n trabajan por razones distintas y hacia metas que no escogieron; que cuidan cuando nadie las cuida y que su fuerza pol\u00edtica viene del traj\u00edn diario y no de la abstracci\u00f3n al uso?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>De hecho, hace apenas unos a\u00f1os, Martha cambi\u00f3 su n\u00famero telef\u00f3nico. Hac\u00eda campa\u00f1a pol\u00edtica en Circasia cuando recibi\u00f3 una llamada que la sentenciaba: \u201cLos mamertos mueren con la boca llena de moscas\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00bfQu\u00e9 hacemos con el miedo, con el peligro de ser mujer y tener voz?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seg\u00fan el Llamado Prof\u00e9tico #16 y el ejercicio de monitoreo del observatorio OSEAS, en medio de este estr\u00e9pito, 633 mujeres cristianas-evang\u00e9licas fueron v\u00edctimas de 166 hechos de violencia asociados al conflicto armado colombiano solo sobre las fechas de 1986 al 2012. Son mujeres que sirven en sus iglesias, que dirigen cultos, que predican y consuelan, que dictan escuelas dominicales y coordinan estudios b\u00edblicos, que cantan en los ministerios de alabanza y visitan a los enfermos en sus hogares: pastoras, diaconisas, presidentas de ministerios, lideresas de sus comunidades. Mujeres cuyos cuerpos constantemente se mueven entre ataques a la poblaci\u00f3n civil, a la libertad religiosa, acciones de intolerancia, persecuci\u00f3n pol\u00edtica, violencia sexual y secuestro, pero cuyos liderazgos y afectaciones se desvanecen en el panorama ya que en m\u00e1s de una instancia son los hombres quienes logran alg\u00fan t\u00edtulo como l\u00edderes de sus comunidades, proyectando as\u00ed tanto sus voces como sus experiencias. Por tanto, para ellas es m\u00e1s dif\u00edcil hablar sobre los efectos del conflicto armado en la cultura y la fe.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seg\u00fan Marta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c&#8230;muchas veces la gente asume que uno tiene que guardar silencio ante las injusticias, que uno no puede tomar partido y que tiene que quedarse callado ante los cr\u00edmenes y las cosas que suceden. \u00bfCierto? \u2026 Entonces, la implicaci\u00f3n de uno como una mujer de fe es que lo que quieren es como que uno se quede callada, porque es que si usted cree en Dios, entonces usted tiene que guardar silencio y dejar que Dios obre y no decir nada contra nadie\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sin embargo, a pesar de toda esta expectativa de silencio, queda claro para ella que: \u201cQuedarse uno en esa tibieza, no se ajusta a lo que Jes\u00fas nos ense\u00f1\u00f3. Jes\u00fas nos ense\u00f1\u00f3 a ser radicales en la defensa de los derechos de los seres humanos. \u00c9l defendi\u00f3 a los pobres, a los humildes, a los afligidos, a los excluidos, y ese es mi ejemplo.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>De acuerdo con un total general de 439 mujeres victimizadas en 26 a\u00f1os de monitoreo por el observatorio, 422 mujeres, no registraron participaci\u00f3n alguna en una organizaci\u00f3n social, mientras, 17 de ellas afirmaron haber hecho parte de alguna organizaci\u00f3n social principalmente en entidades de orden comunitario ligadas a acciones comunales, fundaciones y sindicatos, al igual que diversas organizaciones de corte religioso y confesional. Adicionalmente, se visualiza que el rol que desarrollaron estas mujeres dentro de las organizaciones sociales correspondi\u00f3 principalmente al desarrollo de labores relacionadas con papeles de coordinaci\u00f3n y de liderazgos comunitarios, a su vez que de secretariado y de participaci\u00f3n de los procesos desarrollados por sus organizaciones particulares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Los silencios tambi\u00e9n operan cuando las mujeres no encuentran c\u00f3mo reconocer su participaci\u00f3n comunitaria hacia el todo el bien que hay en sus territorios, invisibilizadas por los tatucos, las balaceras y las bombas que al parecer medi\u00e1tico solo atraviesan a los hombres. Porque si bien los an\u00e1lisis sobre las violencias masivas no suelen incluir las violencias colectivas contra las mujeres y sus cuerpos, mucho menos testifican sobre sus m\u00faltiples formas de resistencia. (Cristina S\u00e1nchez).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Para Gloria Esperanza Laverde Mendoza, integrante del comit\u00e9 impulsor del Grupo Ecum\u00e9nico de Mujeres Constructoras de Paz \u2013 GemPaz, nuestras ideas sobre la reconciliaci\u00f3n encuentran c\u00f3mo ampliarse solo cuando las mujeres<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cnombramos nuestras pr\u00e1cticas femeninas y su efecto en el cuerpo\/territorio de las mujeres. Asumir la corporalidad individual como territorio propio e irrepetible, permite fortalecer el sentido de afirmaci\u00f3n de su existencia de ser y estar en el mundo. Por lo tanto, emerge la autoconciencia, que va dando cuenta de c\u00f3mo ha vivido este cuerpo en su historia personal, particular y temporal, las diferentes manifestaciones y expresiones de los patriarcados y todas las opresiones derivadas de ellos (Cabnal, 2010).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No hay reconciliaci\u00f3n cuando hay silencios, cuando no contamos con capacidades para nombrar lo que atraviesa la vida y los cuerpos que la sostienen en la historia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marta quien decidi\u00f3 no dejar de amar y opt\u00f3 con terquedad por el amor, cada vez que brinda un taller en reuniones de mujeres de comunidades de fe o con mujeres rurales o bien del \u00e1rea p\u00fablica; a trav\u00e9s de talleres de sensibilizaci\u00f3n o de prevenci\u00f3n de violencia en espacios de mujeres de fe y ecum\u00e9nicos donde comparte, desde la mirada y el estudio de los textos b\u00edblicos, c\u00f3mo Jes\u00fas nos habla de los derechos de las mujeres. Desde ah\u00ed, apoya a mujeres v\u00edctimas directas de violencia, les ayuda, acompa\u00f1a, dirige,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00abdici\u00e9ndoles a d\u00f3nde deben ir, qu\u00e9 pasos deben seguir y haciendo, pues, como las conexiones simples que puedo. Si no son mujeres de fe, entonces acompa\u00f1\u00e1ndolas, sigui\u00e9ndoles y dici\u00e9ndoles, cu\u00e1les son los caminos que deben tomar o las rutas a seguir para que puedan encontrar el respaldo jur\u00eddico, psicol\u00f3gico\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Y es que sin amor nadie incide en nada, ni hay comuni\u00f3n ni comunidad ni ciudadan\u00eda ni ciudades ni pueblos. Sin amor solo hay ruido en la calle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Alex and Xiomara\u2019s appointments are made possible by your gifts to Disciples Mission Fund, Our Church\u2019s Wider Mission, and your special gifts.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/donation_page\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Make a gift that supports the work of Alex Maldonado-Lizardi and Xiomara Cintron-Garcia<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" id=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> A longer version of this story was developed by Xiomara Cintr\u00f3n-Garc\u00eda for <em>A Prophetic Call #16: Women on Peacebuilding Processes\u2026<\/em> titled \u201cNeither slaves nor submissive nor mistreated nor humiliated\u2026\u201d: Life narratives of Christian women leaders in Colombia\u201d(\u201cNi esclavas ni sumisas ni maltradas ni humilladas\u2026: Narrativas de vida en lideresas cristianas en Colombia\u201d). You can access it by this link <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justapazcolombia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/LLAMADO-PROFETICO-16.pdf\">https:\/\/www.justapazcolombia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/LLAMADO-PROFETICO-16.pdf<\/a> . Also a chapter for a podcast (\u201cMemoria imborrable\u201d) was developed on Marta\u2019s story for&nbsp; Justapaz\u2019s radio station <em>El Portavoz<\/em>. 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