Vigilia en Nueva York

Immigrant mourned by thousands

Seven suburban youths from Patchogue-Medford High School on Long Island decided to go out in their SUV on Saturday night, Nov. 8, and “f _ _ _ up a Mexican.” When they came across Ecuadorian immigrant Marcelo Lucero on his way to a friend’s house, they jumped him and beat him. Jeffrey Conroy, a local high school athlete, has been charged with first-degree manslaughter in the stabbing death of Lucero.
Long Island vigil where Ecuadorian
immigrant was murdered.

On a rainy Friday night following the murder, more than 2,000 people gathered at the site of Lucero’s killing for a memorial vigil. Religious and government officials counseled peacefulness and reconciliation, but many people held signs asking for a reckoning.

Full story here.

[no hay mucho que puedo ofrecer para la familia de marcello lucero o para los activista que van a la oficina del gobernador de ny pidiendo mas acción contra los crímenes del odio.

pero si ofrece las poemas de martín espada para que pueden oír lo que ellos saben en su corazón: que sus vidas tienen honor y que ellos merecen justicia como todos. no la justicia de linchadores (que es lo mismo que sufro marcello), pero la justicia propia que no viene fácil pero que es la mas necesaria.]

Martin Espada – The Other USA

Poem Texts
• En la calle San Sebastián
• Coca-Cola and Coco Frío
• Return