Day Seven

On Thursday, January 11th we watched a documentary produced by Pastor Kim, the director of the ELCA Center here in Mexico City. The film is called “The Wall and the Desert” and takes a close look at immigration from Mexico to the United States. Pastor Kim and his colleagues spent time on the border, interviewing people and learning about the conditions in which people put themselves for a chance to cross into the United States. After the film, we had a Biblical reflection on Jesus and the Disciples “Crossing to the Other Side.” After lunch we departed for Cuernavaca, the Land of Eternal Spring. What a beautiful city it is! We stayed at the Centro Cuernavacense Intercultural de Dialogo sobre Desarollo (the Cuernavaca Intercultural Center for Development Dialogue). There, we participated in a dialog with the rest of the documentary team, Professors Armando Villegas and Pablo Gleason from La Salle University, a Christian Brothers school here in Mexico. We heard of their passion for the subject matter, their hopes for the immigration policies of the US, and their hope that people would make pirate copies of their film so that it would be seen by very many people.