The Wind Knows My Name

by Isabel Allende

Here is my secret. It’s quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes. —The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

No one wants to abandon everything they know and run away; they only do it out of total desperation.”

During the Cold War, the United States tried to end all leftist movements in Central and South America by arming, indoctrinating, and training brutal militaries; they knowingly financed government repression. Here, we justified it as the ‘expansion of democracy,’ but it did exactly the opposite. The U.S. government overthrew democratically elected leaders and imposed vicious dictators; the only thing they were actually defending was the business interests of American companies and the super wealthy.”

This isn’t about left, right, or any other direction. It’s about finding practical solutions to real problems.”