Gabby Barrera > Recent Status Updates

"In most families there comes, now and then, a year full of events. This has been such a one, but it ends well, after all." wake me up when 2026 ends.

“The task lies in the hands of the dispossessed, the humiliated, the ac-cursed. The Latin American cause is above all a social cause: the rebirth of Latin America must start with the overthrow of its masters, country by country.”

“…in some ways the willingness of Mexico's rich to ignore the poor is coming back to haunt them. This isn't the poor's revenge on the rich; they are simply finding their own way to wealth and to social recognition. Especially since the old avenues for becoming a man in Mexico …are shifting. Some men are now opting to establish their manhood this way, and this is hurting everyone."

“This’ll only stop when people stop taking drugs” 🎯 (but this is by design: no one is doing anything to stop addiction)

“But good or evil, every single dollar was power. Power to hire a lawyer, power to control how she spent her time, power to change her appear-ance, power to command respect. Power to be who she wanted to be.”

[on the cruelty and havoc drug addiction causes:] “In this world, it matters not where affection comes from, only it exists at all”

“The invaders came to redeem the Paraguayan people, and exterminated them. When the war began, Paraguay had almost as large a population as Argentina. Only 250,000, less than one-sixth, survived in 1870.”

On industrializing Juarez: “The rich of the city had paid the politicians to raise taxes from the poor, in order to turn the place where they lived into an urban Frankenstein."

“[Barack] had a hard and lonely job- the hardest and loneliest in the world, it often seemed to me-but he knew that he had an obligation to stay open, to shut nothing out. While the rest of us slept, he took down the fences and let everything inside.”

“To justify the U.S. air force’s aerophoto excursions, the government had previously declared it lacked the resources for the job. Again par for the course in Latin America: its resources are always surrendered to imperialism in the name of its lack of resources.”

“The million dead in the revolutionary war years had paid blood tribute “to a Huitzilopoxtli more cruel and insatiable than the one our ancestors worshiped: the capitalist development of Mexico under conditions imposed by subordination to imperialism.”

“… there was never enough time with the people who mattered.”

“Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.”

“Life is short and not to be wasted. If I died, I didn't want people remembering me for the stacks of legal briefs I'd written or the corporate trademarks I'd helped defend. I felt certain that I had something more to offer the world. It was time to make a move.”

“I cannot mourn for what I have not known.”

“I could have loved myself whether I was hunchbacked or lame, but to be loved by others, you had to be beautiful.”

“It would be strange if the remedy should come from the USA, the same place which brings us the disease”

“…you cannot change the people who refuse to be changed. you can only love them.”

“After all: What were good Christian men if not experts at making their good Christian women vanish from the workd?” 🎯

“…sometimes the love of strangers is much more terrifying than the hate.”

“what they don’t tell you is this: to live without fear is lonesome”

“…Narcissists don’t kill themselves”

“Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result.”

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent”