Seed of love turned into a path.
Blood of my blood.
Dreams of my dreams.
Light with eyes, eyes of light.
Life force alive, clamour, tenderness.
Grace of ingenuous gods.
Stone, promise, star.
Anarchic and sincere sky.
Sleepless dance of arrows.
Light green, tender moss.
Dance, God, for dawn is breaking.
Fly, wheat, be fruitful.
Never forget who you are,
fill your voice with discovery.
Do not delay in germinating.
Always return in bloom.
Alfredo Mires
in: Romance of the Mountain
This year, the Community Programme for the support of children with projectable abilities celebrated 31 years of presence in the rural communities of Cajamarca. Countless children and their families have been supported by our coordinators, and most of them have improved their living conditions thanks to the love, teachings and comprehensive therapies we have been able to provide.
Over the years, the Community Programme team has been trained and strengthened, we have learned and adapted our methodologies and strategies, and we have grown as people. But we have also grown a little older.
At the beginning of this year, we received the difficult news that the financial support currently provided by Kindernothilfe e.V. in Germany to sustain our programme will soon come to an end.
As a team, we are taking this news with dignity, calm and confidence; we know the mark we have left and the good we have been able to do for many children and their families.
At our meeting in May, we looked for ways and strategies to round off and complement our work over all these years and to bring it to a successful conclusion in the future. As the head of the Community Programme, I am very proud of our extraordinary team and of the wisdom, maturity, courage and optimism of our rural coordinators in continuing on this path, in different ways, for the good of children with disabilities.
I thank you and embrace you from my heart.
Rita Mocker
Head of the Community Programme
At a school in Cajamarca, children often enjoy reading our storybook instalments. They are their favourites because they tell different and entertaining stories.
Some identify them by the colours of the covers: they look for the purple book, the green one, the light blue one... Others know the titles very well: ‘I want the Pishgo Indian', or 'the seven pieces of advice,’ they say. Some remember the numbers better: I still have to read number 7, I've already read number 15. Others, from time to time, search for the title of a story: the book where the fool carries the door, the fox uncle and the rabbit. But children's innocence is greater than all academic or pedagogical formalities, their sincerity is exquisite, and one day, one who had forgotten all the other clues managed to say: ‘I want that book where there are cheeky words’.
In the past, perhaps, his teacher would have been scandalised, or perhaps she would not even have had those books in her library; but that is why we unlearn and learn again, valuing the expressions of our communities. So it was not difficult to find the story, although it was not easy either, because in these books there are several that have ‘naughtiness’, the kind that makes children's faces redden, but which they also love.
In June 2023, during a trip to Medellin, Colombia, I met Leidy Velez. Those of us who love her call her Lez.
Lez is a librarian, reading mediator, archivist...and friend. I think the latter characterizes her best. I met Lez at a bebeteca, a library for babies, a space where she moves like a fish in water. Reading to children -young and old- is her passion.
This April, Lez came to Peru and did not hesitate for a moment to visit us in Cajamarca to visit Bibliotecas Rurales and offer her support in several reading mediation activities in different spaces of the Network.
She gave a workshop on reading, writing and orality for teachers at the central base of the Libraries Network and another for teachers at the UGEL of Cajabamba. The teachers were amazed.
We also visited the Malcas Garden, in the Condebamba valley, where the Network has a Rural Library in an Educational Institution. There we carried out four small units of reading promotion in the beautiful library of this garden and we returned with a renewed spirit because of the affection given to us by the children, their parents and teachers.
The few days I was able to share with Lez were full of deep conversations, learning and amazement. But it was also a time of much companionship, kindness and laughter.
Thank you, Lez, for your presence among us.
Come back soon.
Rita Mocker
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Today, April 1, I read to my students, in a fourth grade classroom, two texts by Alfredo Mires that are part of the work El duende del laberinto y otros cuentos medulares: El vino and El amor III (The goblin of the labyrinth and other medular stories: Wine and Love III).
I then asked them for their interpretations and there was silence. I read again in order to encourage them and one of them said: "Love allows us to esteem the other, to value them, their existence is necessary. The vaccine mentioned in the text is to live without love, a barrier that removes sensitivity". Another student said: “Love leads us to suffering, you cannot love without suffering”, and his classmate expressed that “Love acts as a barrier to hate, it allows us to relate, unite and love each other”.
I insisted that they interpret the text “Wine” and, almost at the end of the class hour, a smiling young girl said: “Wine refers to the capacity of transformation, like the grape that goes through a process and transforms into something good, so we can transform ourselves”.
I felt, once again, happy for the enriching experiences that reading generates.
Thank you, Alfredo.
Elizabeth Olano
Teacher and head of a BRIE
From narration to comic strip
As part of an academic activity, a few weeks ago, a group of children from a local educational institution, read some of our stories to transform them into comic strips. The choice of the stories was totally free, as is the distribution of the content, because it is better to give them the freedom to choose the details and allow them to show their creativity.
It was very nice to see what criteria they used to choose their stories: the one that is scary, the one that is funny, the one that talks about the Virgin Mary of the town. In short, there is a lot of variety in our story booklets, for all tastes and readers' desires.
The result was a colourful panel, with drawings appropriate to their age and an enriching demonstration of their ability to summarize and present each story so that it can be understood in a few words.
Respectful of the precious work of these children, we have asked permission to present the “sample buttons”.
On April 25 and 26 we met in Cajamarca to hold the assembly of the Rural Libraries Network at the beginning of the year. Librarians, coordinators of the Network, those in charge of our BRIE (Rural Libraries in Educational Institutions) and the team from our central office gathered to train us, evaluate our work in the field and make agreements about the work of Rural Libraries this year.
This time, the attendance at our assembly was very good; meeting, greeting and spending a couple of days together always encourages us a lot.
We returned home happy because we learned a lot, both from the training provided by the Network's headquarters and from the presentations given by our compañeros in the countryside on topics such as Andean religiosity, Rondas campesinas, procedures in cases of family violence and agriculture.
We agreed that, in the next assemblies, we will continue with this type of presentations of the peasant members of the Network, but we will also prepare ourselves to know better the books that we publish and thus know how to better encourage our brothers and sisters in rural areas.
Sergio Díaz Estela, from Masintranca, Chota
Lord,
what are you if not
all dreams?
We poor people do not say
“Tomorrow I will be this
or that”.
No.
We exist
and by existing we make
the world less
unworthy,
less messed up
the history,
sweeter
the life.
And life, Lord,
is free,
we have it as a gift.
We do not plan
we palpitate
we do not die of heart attack
we only dream.
So, Lord,
we legitimize you.
Alfredo Mires Ortiz
in: How to go to bed undecided and wake up to risk it.
In the process of rescuing the wisdom of the grandparents, our brother Alfredo Mires said a phrase that we like very much, which is part of our books and posters of the Network, a phrase that calls us to reflection and action: Reach out your hand to the grandchild without letting go of the grandparents'.
In our recent Assembly we were overwhelmed with emotion to see our fellow librarian Marcial Rumay Cortez from the community of Shidín - Cajamarca arrive. Don Marcialito had stopped participating in our meetings for health reasons, yet this time he arrived in full spirit and also accompanied by his granddaughter Marisol Rumay, who grew up with the books of the Network. The girl who attended the library and who felt and feels proud to recommend our books, is now a university student, who values the efforts of the Network for the promotion of reading, recognizes our journey and accompanies us.
May Marisol be a sample of those seeds that so many coordinators of the different communities are taking care of; and may those seeds continue to grow and tell the wisdom of our grandparents.
We set off for our destination, Cajamarca, a city in the mountains of Peru, carrying only the clothes we needed to make room for our protagonists: books!
So we left, leaving the dawn of the Aburrá Valley behind us.
Lima would be our first stop, where our friends welcomed us and we did a little sightseeing, but the heat sapped my strength and my spirits.
With the Sunday breeze, I arrived in Cajamarca; my body and spirit were relieved to see Rita, and the joy of meeting my friend cured all my ills.
From then on, I felt like part of the family, a feeling that lasted throughout the trip. They opened their home and their hearts to me, and we shared everything: work, food, transport and the hotel. We followed the planned route amid laughter, conversation and anecdotes. From the first exchange of ideas, our differences were erased, because the goal is the same, only the way of doing it changes. For my part, I shared my gifts and experiences, so that knowledge would flow and not remain on a shelf gathering dust, hoping that it would reinforce the knowledge of the friends who accompanied us and motivate both children and adults to read and write.
Along the way, I learned the value of their customs, that their ancestral knowledge has much to offer us. Above all, I value their ability to preserve their precious culture, their beautiful homes and, above all, their important values, which I saw every minute, kind people, always willing to give their best, greeting you with a shy smile. I am not only taking away what I have learned, but also a few extra kilos, which represent the appreciation of the people of Cajamarca, Cajabamba and the families of the children of Malcas.
All that remains is for me to ask you to continue with such wonderful work, to continue fostering the connection between parents and children through books and preserving the ancestral knowledge that can offer so much wisdom to the world, so that we can all continue to grow together.
I am very grateful to life for bringing me together with Rita Mocker, and to her for introducing me to the Cajamarca Rural Libraries Network, such a meaningful project where I was able to share everything from my knowledge to my laughter.
With love and affection, your Colombian friend,
Leidy Yohana Vélez Santa
In April, we welcomed our daughter Samay Nikoll and some of her friends from the National University of Cajamarca to our home. They had come with the sole purpose of learning how our rural libraries in the countryside work.
At the end of March, these friends had attended the 54th anniversary celebration of the Network in Cajamarca. There I was able to talk with them, and that had sparked their interest in the work of Rural Libraries in the countryside.
So we welcomed all these lovely people into our home, thinking about how to explain who we are and what we do in our libraries in the communities. We decided to hold a reading circle with them, but we thought it would be nice to do it in a special place, and we chose the apu El Mirador.
To get there, we had obtained some mules, and one fine morning, we all rode on horses to the apu. There we celebrated our offering to the earth and then held a reading circle with some books we had brought with us.
At lunchtime, we took out our picnic and shared a delicious meal. While we were doing these activities, some locals approached us to ask what we were doing there. So, in passing, we were able to promote our libraries, our books and reading.
Beautiful experiences like this encourage us a lot – and encourage others too.
Sergio Díaz Estela, from Masintranca, Chota.
The Rural Libraries in Educational Institutions -BRIE- stand out for their encouragement and commitment to reading, books, conversation and the appreciation of our rural Andean culture. We acknowledge the students, teachers and directors for persisting in this journey with books from the ground. Their coordinators tell us what they are doing:
- In the BRIE of Sucse, district of Sócota in Cutervo, every week they distribute their books by grades; through the alforjita viajera (travelling saddlebag) they promote reading and conversation about books.
- The BRIE ‘Bicentenario La Pauquilla’ in Cajabamba exhibits books to encourage students to take them home; in addition, through a library notice board they offer information about the various reading activities they carry out in the institution.
- The BRIE ‘El Calvario’ - Los Baños del Inca, in Cajamarca, carries out reading activities: ‘La pijamada de la Lectura’ (The Reading Sleepover), ‘Un día entre Libros’ (A day between books) ‘El Rey y Reina de la Lectura’ (The King and Queen of Reading), together with the development of artistic practices such as theatre and the production of theatre costumes with recycled materials.
In the UK there is a charity called GiveaCar: Donate your car to charity - quick, easy and free. This non-profit organisation sells old cars and donates the proceeds to charity.
Sarah's Rural Library Fund, in the UK, is the charity that was formed after librarian Sarah Heery passed away and donated part of her estate to the Rural Libraries Network. Since then, Sarah Heery's family and friends have continued to fundraise for the Network.
For this reason, Sarah's Rural Library Fund is also registered with GiveaCar. And recently they have sold Sarah Heery's old car. Sarah's car has had many owners after she passed away, including her sister, nephew, sister-in-law and great-niece. Sadly, the car has now reached the end of its useful life, after 20 years and 356,000 kilometres. GiveaCar retired the car and donated the proceeds to Sarah's Rural Library Fund, then friends in England sent this donation to Rural Libraries so that we can buy and publish new books.
Our elders taught us the value of reciprocity and collective, community work; perhaps they did not know these terms, but they practised them. Thus, they established the mingas for planting, harvesting, building houses, cleaning rivers and streams, building fences and other community tasks.
Here in the Network, we try to apply these lessons and, for several years, we have been building and taking care of the house through communal work and with solidarity contributions from different friends.
On this occasion, we celebrate the presence of Javier Huamán, Ramiro Yglesias, Sergio Díaz and Edilberto Rodrigo, who join our family from the central team to support us with activities of decoration, restructuring and maintenance of the premises.
We make the impossible possible, with the hands of everyone.
As part of the celebration of our 54 years with books on earth, we decided to make a photographic exhibition showing some of the learnings and beings that have been present in the time of our Network, with the help of our volunteer friends, Jorge Camacho and Francisco Vigo.
So, one afternoon, we sat down to review the selected photos to write a brief review of their moment and the people they showed... and many feelings were awakened.
Seeing the young faces of Fr. Juan Medcalf, Alfredo Mires and so many companions who left their youth in this dream, moved us to the point of not wanting to write a brief review, because we felt that nothing would be enough, we would like to say everything that these photos mean to us, because in truth, it is so much. There are not enough words.
And it's not just about memories, but about the roads we have travelled. Seeing the photos of each jornada, as the training meetings were called at that time, of each activity, of each meeting, from that time to the present day, makes us happy, but it also saddens us because we think that the time of those brothers and sisters was too small, it was insufficient to teach us more, to leave us more.
Undoubtedly, for each one of us this date has a lot of meaning in our lives since we are part of the Network of Rural Libraries of Cajamarca.
54 years ago, starting the work of a rural library with a unique reading promotion system has been a great contribution to humanity. The beneficiaries, mainly rural men and women, were offered the opportunity to read. Access to a book changes lives because books are a powerful tool for individual and social transformation.
Thank you, Juan Medcalf and Alfredo Mires, your wisely thought out, planned and executed work has been sustained over time, enriching, today, the thinking and feeling of our students.
At the ‘Sagrado Corazón’ Educational Institution in Jaén, they know and love the Library Network because it is close to them through the books it provides us with. The students usually go to the ‘Reading Animation Room’ during recess, when the door opens and leaves their valuable treasure within reach of everyone.
Happy anniversary Rural Libraries of Cajamarca!
Photographic exhibition for the 54th anniversary of the Network
On the occasion of the inauguration of the photographic exhibition Esa luz de más adentro in homage to the 54th anniversary of the Red de Bibliotecas Rurales, our brothers Sergio Díaz and Javier Huamán have dedicated themselves with patience and care to touching up the paint on the walls of our main hall or Hatun Wasi. They also installed some ropes on the walls to be able to place the more than thirty photos that make up the exhibition.
Thank you, dear family. Without this preliminary work, our exhibition would not exist.
We also thank Francisco Vigo and Jorge Camacho, photographers and volunteers of the Network, who have dedicated themselves to designing the exhibition, and all the friends who accompanied us at the inauguration of Esa luz de más adentro.
For those who have not been able to attend this event, the Network offers guided tours of the exhibition throughout the month of April, with prior coordination via WhatsApp 988216050.
We look forward to seeing you.
Volunteering is the fundamental pillar of the Network's conception. Some of us have been going for many years because we enjoy it and it enriches our daily life. Others join as they get to know and become interested in the work of the Network.
This month we had the support of Ben Nicholson and family, from England, who visited Cajamarca and, aware of our work, wanted to support us in the preparation of books for our exchange and implementation in the next coordinators' assembly.
And from Cajamarca, we had the support of Rumi Mires, son of our brother Alfredo, and Paul Arévalo, son of our sister Rosita, who are always willing to lend us a hand when we need it.
Libraries is a voluntary family where we all support each other.
In mid-February we met with the coordinators of the Community Programme for our first training meeting this year. After last year's evaluation, we had proposed some changes to optimise our resources in working with children with projectable capacities in the field.
The methodology of the Community Programme, as we were running it so far, has a high demand for different therapeutic materials for each child because we were trying to provide for each of them according to their own needs. But we realised that it is not possible to continue with this dynamic; that is why we are now providing each coordinator with a stock of their own materials that they can use and lend to any child or family.
In this last meeting, then, we have delivered many and varied therapeutic materials into the hands of our coordinators, who returned, happy and grateful for this supply, to their communities.
New books smell good.
The process of producing a book in our Network involves a lot of dedication. We must respond in a way that is relevant to the needs of the readers, especially our brothers and sisters in the communities; the wisdom is passed down from the grandparents and our desire is to make this knowledge transcend.
Today, fresh off the press, two new children of the Network have arrived: Trenzando sombras, who tells us about the art of weaving hats and all that is woven around them, and José María, who tells us about the family and how it articulates with nature.
Loaded with culture and a great deal of wisdom, these dear children are here to continue touring the different libraries in the communities of Cajamarca.
Rosita, in charge of the exchange centre, happily receives the books from Mr. Roger, in charge of printing.
Thanks to the friends of Heart Links for their contribution to make these reprints possible.
Over the years, the Rural Libraries Network has published, in addition to the series and collections of books with different rescue themes, other publications that are the result of the meticulous research work of our remembered Alfredo Mires.
Such is the case of his artistic representations which he called ‘Ñaupas’, or ‘Ñaupitas’, referring to the most ancient character of our culture. As well as other traces, graphs, icons, taken from the mountains - many times - by hand and fist in the absence of a good camera, as Alfredo himself said. All of them, captured in his books of Iconography, in the Qayaqpuma series and in other valuable printed treasures.
These books, which for us are a sacred legacy, for other people are a wonderful source for copying the work of others. We often find reproductions of these images on clothing, posters - such as the one for Carnival 2024 - to whose promoters we sent a notarised letter that they never answered, only asking them to clarify the origin of the iconography used. We also find Alfredo's drawings on handmade souvenirs offered to tourists - some of them even retain the watermark, characteristic of our digital publications. We also see, from time to time, some prints on carnival costumes.
As a community organisation we do not oppose the use of this wonderful heritage, we only ask that the credits of the artistic author of these representations be respected. That the work and memory of this great man who left his life in every step through the mountains of our peoples be respected.
We received the news that our beloved don Antonio Vílchez Chávez had passed away on 9 February 2025. With these words we would like to pay homage to our friend, to the veteran librarian, to the one who with determination and patience did his voluntary work as coordinator of the José Sabogal Zone in San Marcos.
Antonio Vílchez Chávez joined the Network of Rural Libraries of Cajamarca in 1994, after he met one of the coordinators of the Rural Libraries, who invited him to take part in this voluntary work with books. This is how he described it:
‘I was going to Coyón, and on the way I met Mr. Juan Garay, the coordinator at that time. I asked him what the Libraries were and how they worked. He said to me, ‘We lend books so that the community knows how to read, because some older people know how to read and forget, there are some children who know how to read, they are lent a little book. In your community, could you be a librarian? - So, I told him I was going to think about it, -call me when I think about it-, the next day they sent the request to the house and Don Fidencio, Don Pascualito, Gonzalo left with books. It didn't take long.
(Antonio Vílchez, veterans debate, 2009).
- What is that little piece of dung doing in infinity,’ asked the God of Order.
- It's my creation,‘ said the God of Love, “I'll call it ”Earth’.
- Wait till you see the people I'm going to put on it...’ thought the God of Madness.
Alfredo Mires
in: El duende del laberinto
The ‘My Saddlebag’ workshop, shared with some of the coordinators of the Community Programme, was an endearing experience. Starting from the meaning that the saddlebag has for each one of us, feelings and experiences towards it were expressed: a faithful companion that keeps secrets, family memories, gives us identity, balances us and accompanies us in our tasks. ‘Only she knows the good and the bad, our joys and secrets’.
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Taking care of the caregivers, we breathe consciously, we connect with our body, we play and we become the Moon, the Earth, the Water... and then we dance knowing that we are unique and important for ourselves and for those who accompany us on this path of Life. A paper heart with words that come from the heart.
Thank you one and all for this unforgettable sharing!
Sara López, Lima
therapist and responsible for this workshop
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On 9th February our dear brother Antonio Vílchez Chávez, coordinator of the José Sabogal, San Marcos area, passed away.
Don Antonio was a faithful companion, dedicated to books and a lover of reading who spent whole days walking to visit the more than twenty rural libraries under his care. He organised many reading circles in various places in his homeland and was also a member of the team that rescued the Encyclopaedia Campesina. Many people still remember the meetings and offerings to the land that don Antonio held on behalf of the Rural Libraries Network.
Antonio Vílchez was a teacher, healer and storyteller, librarian and coordinator at heart. It is with great sadness that we bid farewell to a great friend and brother. He will always be in our memory and in our hearts. May he rest in peace.
As a coordinator, volunteer and member of the central team of the Cajamarca Rural Libraries Network, during the year 2024 I have taken on different tasks and carried out various coordinations.
I have frequently visited the rural libraries in my sector, I have met with other coordinators in my area for us to support each other and exchange experiences, and I have also been able to visit some libraries in other areas. I have participated in sectoral and zonal meetings in Chota, Cutervo and Contumazá, events that help us to strengthen links with other members of the Network and to understand the joys and difficulties of our work in other places.
My house has been a meeting point and starting point for many volunteers who have had different experiences in the Network. I have made new friends and so far, as a library family, we are in contact with Javier Naranjo, Orlanda Agudelo and Fernando Hoyos from Colombia and Jorge Ventocilla from Panama. Together with them we visited several libraries in rural areas, encouraging reading, librarians and other coordinators.
On my last visit I was very happy to see that my librarian in the community Manantial de los Andes has already formed a group of children with whom he conducts reading circles every Sunday afternoon.
Seeing that these children give themselves to books and reading in these times of technology and virtuality encourages me to continue with my own volunteering in libraries.
Sergio Díaz Estela
Coordinator of the Masintranca sector, Chota
The year 2024 was a year with no rain. As a consequence there were many forest fires affecting our flora, wildlife, domestic grazing animals and also the fields of our farming brothers and sisters.
Normally we were used to the first rains arriving in the month of October, to sow the corn, but the summer continued. The first days of December the first dark grey clouds appeared, signalling the arrival of rain, so longed for by all of us, generating hope for our crops and animals.
In the middle of December the first rains began to fall, which was an immense joy for all of us, since rain means LIFE for us; rain is a time when there is production of all our crops, the pastures for the animals grow and we are no longer carrying water from far away places for the consumption of us and our animals.
In honour and gratitude to the gods for giving us the agüita, community men and women from the various communities, readers of rural libraries, we make our little offering to our mother earth, as the source of life that feeds and shelters us, to our sacred mountains, the apus, for keeping the agüita in their womb for times of drought and in memory of our deceased for their honour, passion, strength, wisdom and their mystical spiritual faith with mother nature.
Now it is time to sow seeds, words and knowledge by reading our books after a little offering to the Pachamama.
Javier Huaman Lara
General Coordinator
A few days ago, Sandra Rodríguez Castañeda, anthropologist and friend of Bibliotecas Rurales, sent us some copies of the magazine Lectura. In the first edition of this magazine, December 2024, there is an article that Sandra wrote -from her experience and her heart- about the Network.
The article is entitled Domesticating the Word, Recreating Utopia and refers to Sandra's opinion and vision of our organisation and the lessons she learned in her conversations with Alfredo Mires - such as ‘getting to know oneself’. But Sandra's article is also an attempt to narrate the history of Bibliotecas Rurales: our beginnings, our concepts and our conception, our wanderings and growths, our stumbles and challenges, our dreams and visions, what we are and what we want to continue to be.
In an affectionate way, Sandra reminds us of Alfredo and the things he taught us over the years. She says: ‘Because after so many years, Alfredo continues to be an interlocutor in my head and the work of Rural Libraries a reference for me’.
It is the same for us, dear Sandra.
Thank you for your clarity, for your reflections and for this tribute.
We started 2025 by returning to work in the Exchange Centre of the Network, after a few days off for Christmas and New Year.
As is well known in this area, we always need the support of helping hands to carry out some tasks in the Exchange Centre, the operational area of the Network. One of the tasks is to count, order and place the books produced by the Network into boxes to preserve their good condition, which are ordered and placed on the shelves, according to the themes.
On this occasion we had the valuable support of Don Javier Huamán Lara, General Coordinator of the Network, who very enthusiastically offered to support us in this task that greatly benefits the work of the Network in rural areas.
We are extremely grateful to him for taking the initiative to get involved, learn and support the work of the Exchange Centre.
The reflection of the moon
in a wet petal
the first honey of the day
of a hummingbird in love.
A drop of dew
the wing of a beetle
the top of the mountain
looking up at her from below.
That's you and by far
the most beautiful inspiration
the dream of desires
the most precious smile.
The gleam of a tender eye
a ray of sunshine singing
the echo of a faithful sigh
a thread of you shining.
The smell of the earth
after the first downpour
and a cartridge of lily
toasting with a shooting star.
The ledge of a rock
to climb the mountain
a clean space
in the middle of the tangle.
Alfredo Mires Ortiz
in: Resuellos
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