In the Land of God and Man: A Latin's Woman's Journey Review

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In the Land of God and Man: A Latin's Woman's Journey ReviewI fervently hope In the Land of God and Man is a huge success. I heard the author interviewed on Latino USA, immediately ordered the book, and read it in very short order. Having gone to boarding school in Coconut Grove in the fifties, I have long been familiar with the role played by Miami in the consciousness of the Caribbean and Latin America. Reading Paternostro brings back the days when I did class assignments at the Miami Public Library and, looking across Biscayne Boulevard, could see garishly lit billboards promoting "Ciudad Trujillo" as a tourist destination.
In the early Castro years, a wave of indignation swept la gente bien en Miami not because of the paredon, but because Fidel let blacks go to the beach!
This book, written by a Colombian woman still in her thirties, talks at length about the threat of AIDS to Latin American women of all social classes. However, she describes a world that has changed remarkably little during the past half century. It is a world beset by very serious problems indeed but one that can be remarkably appealing to those who come to know it well.
For going on thirty-five years, I have pursued the craft of interpreting, working in courts, maquiladoras and quite a vast assortment of other public and private entities. My wife, who is also my interpreting colleague, is from El Paso-Juarez and was extensively educated on both sides of the border. Both our families and our work experience lead us to to hope that Paternostro continues to pursue the topics raised in her book.
In the Land of God and Man was such a welcome read that I hesitate to mention what appeared to me to be its one major oversight. I call on others to correct me if I'm wrong, but I do not recall seeing the term beateria in this book even once.
I am convinced that the machos Paternostro describes so precisely cannot exist in the absence of beatas. The two come intertwined in a sort of mutual aggravation society and are in effect opposite sides of the same curse. Too many ninas bien win for themselves only a provisional respite from beateria in early adulthood. As the years pass, the lure of beateria, which Paternostro tacitly acknowledges, endures. Highly intelligent women when thus afflicted revert to what another writer, Beverley Onofrio, describes as the status of "born-again virgins."
While their macho husbands pursue their multi-gendered flings, grown-up ninas bien often drift back towards social and religious conservatism and acquiesce to the norms of a society that takes it for granted that alguien tiene que mandar. These women fall back on the idea that their fate in eternity is somehow tied to following rules learned as very young girls about attending Mass and abstaining from sex. Recently, many ageing ninas bien have hastened to embrace Hillary as victim while persisting in admiring Bill because he's powerful and because en fin de cuentas todos los hombres son iguales.Fostered by the current occupant of the Holy See and by the likes of the late Mother Teresa, beateria, like machismo, is alive and well at the dawn of the new millennium. Together they threaten the health and happiness of human beings of all orientations from Alaska, with its surprisingly large Hispanic population, all the way to Tierra del Fuego.
In the Land of God and Man is a fine and important book, but it remains only a beginning. I hope it is far from Paternostro's last word on a subject which is literally a matter of life and death.In the Land of God and Man: A Latin's Woman's Journey Overview

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