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Hueliz<\/b><\/p>\n

Hueliz ce ilhuitl,
\n<\/span>hueliz ce ilhuitl,
\ntlahtucayutl ontlami
\n<\/span>huan ahcualtepachuhcayutl onmiqui.
\n<\/span>Hueliz ce ilhuitl,
\n<\/span>hueliz ce ilhuitl,
\n<\/span>ahmo nemiz in ahque tlanahuatiznequi
\n<\/span>nian ahque zan tlalhuiz tetlacamatiz.
\n<\/span>Hueliz ce ilhuitl,
\n<\/span>hueliz ce ilhuitl,
\n<\/span>ahmo nemiz in ahque quichtequiz intequiuh tochanehcahuan
\n<\/span>nian ahque quiciauhcatequitiltiz.
\n<\/span>Hueliz ce ilhuitl,
\n<\/span>hueliz ce ilhuitl,
\n<\/span>ilhuicacupa meetztuna
\n<\/span>mazque ucuc tunalli.
\n<\/span>Hueliz ce ilhuitl,
\n<\/span>hueliz ce ilhuitl,
\n<\/span>onyez tepitzin toyultlacuxyuh
\n<\/span>huan ocachi tlahuel toyulpaccayuh.
\n<\/span>Hueliz inun ilhuitl,
\n<\/span>hueliz inun ilhuitl,
\n<\/span>mah axan yezquiani.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Quiz\u00e1s\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Quiz\u00e1s un d\u00eda,
\n<\/span>quiz\u00e1s un d\u00eda,
\n<\/span>se acabe el gobierno
\n<\/span>y muera la tiran\u00eda.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Quiz\u00e1s un d\u00eda,
\n<\/span>quiz\u00e1s un d\u00eda,
\n<\/span>no exista quien quiera mandar
\n<\/span>ni quien se resigne nom\u00e1s a obedecer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Quiz\u00e1s un d\u00eda,
\n<\/span>quiz\u00e1s un d\u00eda,
\n<\/span>no habr\u00e1 quien robe el trabajo del pueblo
\n<\/span>ni quien sea sujeto de explotaci\u00f3n.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Quiz\u00e1s un d\u00eda,
\n<\/span>quiz\u00e1s un d\u00eda,
\n<\/span>la luna ilumine el cielo
\n<\/span>aunque sea de d\u00eda.
\n<\/span>Quiz\u00e1s un d\u00eda,
\n<\/span>quiz\u00e1s un d\u00eda,
\n<\/span>sea poca la tristeza
\n<\/span>y mucho m\u00e1s la alegr\u00eda.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Quiz\u00e1s ese d\u00eda,
\n<\/span>quiz\u00e1s ese d\u00eda,
\n<\/span>debiera ser hoy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Auto-traducci\u00f3n de Baruc Mart\u00ednez D\u00edaz<\/span><\/h5>\n

 <\/p>\n

Perhaps<\/b><\/p>\n

Perhaps one day,<\/span>
\n<\/span>perhaps one day,<\/span>
\n<\/span>the government will come to an end<\/span>
\n<\/span>and tyranny will decay.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps one day,<\/span>
\n<\/span>perhaps one day,<\/span>
\n<\/span>no one will seek to rule
\n<\/span>nor merely resign themselves to obey.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps one day,<\/span>
\n<\/span>perhaps one day,<\/span>
\n<\/span>No one will steal the people\u2019s labor,
\n<\/span>nor will anyone be exploited.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps one day,<\/span>
\n<\/span>perhaps one day,
\n<\/span>the moon will light the sky
\n<\/span>even by day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps one day,<\/span>
\n<\/span>perhaps one day,<\/span>
\n<\/span>sorrow will be scarce
\n<\/span>and joy far greater.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps that day,<\/span>
\n<\/span>perhaps that day,<\/span>
\n<\/span>should be today.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Translated by Stibaliz Mancilla
\n<\/span>From <\/span>In oxchitl in kuikatl: 24 poetas contempor\u00e1neos en lengua n\u00e1huatl <\/span><\/i>(UDLAP, 2020), edited by Mart\u00edn Tonalmeyotl<\/span><\/h5>\n

 <\/p>\n

Buy books by the authors and translators featured in this issue on our Bookshop page!<\/b><\/a><\/h5>\n

 <\/p>\n

Photo: Jose Miguel Garcia Almaguer, Unsplash.<\/span><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hueliz Hueliz ce ilhuitl, hueliz ce ilhuitl, tlahtucayutl ontlami huan ahcualtepachuhcayutl onmiqui. Hueliz ce ilhuitl, hueliz ce ilhuitl, ahmo nemiz in ahque tlanahuatiznequi nian ahque zan tlalhuiz tetlacamatiz. Hueliz ce ilhuitl, hueliz ce ilhuitl, ahmo nemiz in ahque quichtequiz intequiuh tochanehcahuan nian ahque quiciauhcatequitiltiz. Hueliz ce ilhuitl, hueliz ce ilhuitl, ilhuicacupa meetztuna mazque ucuc tunalli. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":47292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2892],"tags":[5810],"genre":[],"pretext":[],"section":[],"translator":[5800],"lal_author":[4855],"class_list":["post-47293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literatura-indigena","tag-numero-39","translator-stibaliz-mancilla-salinas","lal_author-baruc-martinez-es"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47294,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47293\/revisions\/47294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47293"},{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=47293"},{"taxonomy":"pretext","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pretext?post=47293"},{"taxonomy":"section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section?post=47293"},{"taxonomy":"translator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/translator?post=47293"},{"taxonomy":"lal_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lal_author?post=47293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}