The Tortilla

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• The Tortilla
• Eucharist
• A theological interpretation of food sovereignty

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Lutero, TishredenUno no debe usar algo
diferente al vino, omítase todo el sacramento a
fin de que no se introduzca ninguna innovación.
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• Última Cena. Marcos Zapata (XVIII)
• Catedral de Cuzco

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6-7 años comiendo3 años des-comiendo4-5 días
sin beber agua 2-3 semanas sin comer
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Genesis 47
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Exodus 16.18 manna communism
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Revelation 6.5-6Third Rider Famine
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La pareja de Emaús
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Feed the hungrythe absolute criterion of the
Last Judgement. Matthew 25.31-46
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5.7 Dichosos los misericordiosos porque ellos
recibirán misericordia.
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eres un glotón y borracho
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lordthe keeperof theloaf
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• With whom
• What
• How
• When
• Where

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The Tortured ChristGuido Rochahunger as a
theological dogma
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• El Cristo Apache

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You, give them something to eatMark 6.1-15

• The feeding of the crowd

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Piscis assus, Cristus est passus Cuando se
frie el pescado Cristo se sacrifica
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La Última Cena, Salvador Dalí 1955
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• Primum vivere, deinde philosophari
• Primum est edere, deinde philosophari
• Erst kommt das Fressen, dann die Moral

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• Dis-encounter of three kitchens.
• Shifting their agriculture economy into a
  gold-oriented economy.
• Shifting small farms agriculture for a one crop
  agriculture sugar cane, cotton, coffee, banana

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Capitalist System
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• Capitalism is the more perfect digestive system
  known in history, it digest everything that
  crosses its path
• Tomas Maldonado

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Thomas Robert MalthusEnsayo sobre el principio
de la población 1798
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Otto von Bismark(1815-98)German rye bread to
avoid dependence on wheat from rival nations.
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• Do you want to improve people? Then, instead of
  preaching against sin, give them better food.
• Ludwig Feuerbach
• (1804-72)

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• From a totally different perspective, Im more
  interested in a more pressing issue than any
  theologian subtleties, the problem around which
  depends the salvation of humankind the problem
  of food

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Nazi organized hungera lower race needs less
room, less clothing, less food.
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• There is today one state in which at least weak
  beginnings toward a better conception of
  immigration are noticeable.
• Porfirio Díaz
• (Mexican dictator from 1870-1910)

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• Of course, it is not our model German Republic,
  but the United States.
• Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

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• The
• Amnesia Wall
• The South also exists
• Mario Benedetti

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El vino, de plátano y si sale agrio, es nuestro
vino!

• José Martí

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El Velorio (1893) Fco. ManuelOller Cestero
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Porto Ricans are beyond doubt the dirtiest,
laziest, most degenerate and thievish race of men
ever inhabiting this sphere. What the island
needs is not public health work but a tidal wave
or somenting to totally externinate the
population.
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I have done my best to further the process of
extermination by killing off 8...Cornelius
Rhoads, 1931.
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• Poor Mexico,
• too far from God, and
• too close to USA.
• Porfirio Díaz
• (Mexican dictator from 1870-1910)

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• . . . we must march from ocean to ocean, We must
  march from Texas straight to the Pacific ocean. .
  .It is the destiny of the white race, it is the
  destiny of the Anglo-Saxon race.
• (The Congretional Globe February 11, 1847)

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• the universal Yankee Nation can regenerate and
  disenthrall the people of Mexico in a few years
  and we believe it is a part of our destiny to
  civilize that beautiful country.
• (The New York Herald)

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• The II World War
• Wall

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La Cena chicana
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We have about 50 of the worlds wealth but only
6.3 of its populationIn this situation, we
cannot fail to be the object of envy and
resentment.
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We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford
today the luxury of altruism and
world-benefaction.George ltkennan,US State
Department senior planning offcial, 1948.
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He who controls the food chain controls the
peoplehe who controls energy, will be able to
control entire continents he who controls money
can control the world.Alfred Heinz (Henry)
KissingerJew-German-USA citizen.
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El Banquete de Wall Street Diego Rivera
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• If youre looking for the best way to make people
  dependent, it seems to me that food dependence is
  excellent.
• H. Humphrey, USA Vice-president.

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• the effort of some developing countries to
  become self-sufficient in terms of food
  production should be a memory of old times.
  Those countries must save money importing food
  from the United States.
• John Block, USA Secretary of Agriculture 1981-85.

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• Food is power! We use it to change behavior.
  Some may call that bribery.
• We do not apologize.
• Catherine Bertini, Executive Director, UN World
  Food Program, former US Assistant Secretary of
  Agriculture, 1995.

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The NAFTA Wall

• Agriculture is important to our nation, to feed
  our people. Can you imagine a country incapable
  of producing enough food to feed its population?
  It would be a nation exposed to international
  pressures. It would be a vulnerable nation.
  Thats why when we talk about American
  agriculture, actually were talking about
  national security.
• George Bush Jr. July 27, 2001, Washington.

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NAFTAUSA, 1.20 hrs. 1 ton of cornMexico18
days 1 ton of corn
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El último desayuno Aubrey Hallis 1996
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The Genetic Wall

• Give us today our daily bread is a pledge to
  Monsanto and not to God.
• Vandana Shiva

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• Soybeans for Me Argentina.
• I have the impression that finally Argentina has
  a regime which understands the private enterprise
  system.
• David Rockefeller

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The Corn Tortilla Wall

• And Mexico ends
• Where the
• Corn fields ends.
• Gabriela Mistral, Chilean Nobel Prize

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• If all undocumented people in the USA were
  expelled, the effect on the Northamerica
  economywould be less than dessasterFruits and
  legumes in Florida, Texas and California wouldnt
  be harvested. Food would spectacularly raised its
  prices. Mexicans want to come to the US, they are
  needed and add visible to our wellbeing.
• John Kenneth Gilbraith, The Nature of Mass
  Poverty 1977.

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The Ideological Wall

• The reason we are in Irak is to plant the seeds
  of democracy so they flourish there and spread to
  the entire region of authoritarianism.
• George Bush.

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• The party of the Iraq war and family values
  desperately needs you to forget about dead
  soldiers and randy congressmen, and to think
  instead about the bad things immigrants will do
  to us if we dont wall them out. Hence the fence,
  and the vast campaigns against it.
• (The New York Times, Editorial, Oct. 30-2006)

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• the most important step Americans sic can take
  to end hunger is to remove U.S. support
  financial, diplomatic, and military from
  regimes determined to resist the changes
  necessary to end hunger.
• Frances Moore Lappé

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The Calories Wall
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The Kingdom of Goddoesnt have walls

• There are people who observe reality and ask,
  why?
• And there are people who imagine reality as never
  has existed and ask,
• why not?
• George Bernard Shaw

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Fractio Panisfresco del 3er siglo. Capilla
griega en la catacumba de Santa Priscila
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• Bohdan
• Piasecki
• 1998

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La Primera CenaDafne Elvira, 2001
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The Last Supper, Cornell Barness
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La Cena Campesina (1978)

• Manuel
• García
• (Nicaragua)

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No wall will stop hunger
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• Gutten
• Appetit!