The Tortilla Curtain: War on the Table of the Poor |
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| Authors: | By Eliseo Pérez-Álvarez |
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| Institution: | Eliseo Pérez-Álvarez is professor of systematic theology at the Lutheran Seminary Program in the Southwest. He is the author of: We Be Jammin: Liberating Discourses from the Land of the Seven Flags;, and The Gospel to the Calypsonians: The Caribbean, Bible and Liberation Theology;Comentario de Marcos; The Vexing Gadfly: The Late Kierkegaard on Economic Matters;Introducción a Kierkegaard;o la Teología Patas Arriba;Introducción a la Última Cena;Una desgustación Geopolítica y Económica (in progress). He is co-editor of Lutero al habla;Antología. |
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| Abstract: | Abstract : This essay approaches the concept of borders from a geopolitical perspective, focusing particularly on the dividing curtain between the USA and Mexico. Corn serves not only as Ariadne's thread but also as a symbol of food in general, to be problematized and not taken for granted. The author highlights God's imperative for us to take the side of the poor: to satiate their hunger and quench their thirst. This stands in clear contradiction to the current evil economic system that has reduced food to a weapon of mass destruction, through the simultaneous overproduction of food and hunger. |
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| Keywords: | United States-Mexico border immigration food colonization agriculture land |
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