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- 0:13Good morning, friends and friends, I am Julio Pérez and this is the
- 0:21train of life, a radio adventure along the routes of the heart. I
- 0:27want to invite you to travel with me and dream together in a better world,
- 0:34a different world where men and women of good will can live in peace
- 0:38and freedom. The train of life is a magaxine of good news and hope.
- 0:48This is a radio time specially designed for people like you and like so
- 0:54many truth seekers, of the only truth that can make us authentic free come
- 1:00I invite you to travel with us on the safest train of all, which
- 1:08will definitely take you to safe harbour. This is the train of life.
- 1:33Well, very good morning, Spain, bon day, friends, from this
- 1:56corner of the Iberian solar, of this mixture of cultures as fabulous as is
- 2:04our dear Spain. From here, Julio Pérez, a communicator who has been
- 2:10an impenitent traveller for many years, speaks to them. This morning we travel
- 2:15together on the train of life Let' s go, ladies, yes,
- 3:28gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, also because if there are there, they are
- 3:31not in the cortijos, but in life, in everyday life, because here
- 3:37we are already. The train has begun its departure. They know that when
- 3:39we are in the station and we travel in bird and I travel with a
- 3:44certain frequency in the bird usually more of Barcelona, Madrid and other points of
- 3:52the Spanish geography, but when the train starts is almost imperceptible, you do
- 3:54not realize and we are already going, And well, until it is already
- 4:00taking sprint and you already realize, because the tunnels that are already before coming
- 4:05out in the light of the day. But so is this traveling train and
- 4:11it is perceptible, because we travel. It is like life itself is a
- 4:15living parable. Life is a parable Look when you' re going in to
- 4:21me, I really like the train. I remember those trains of old,
- 4:26that I remember some long journey that I made as one of my older brothers
- 4:29who already passed away, my brother Ginés. And we were going, because
- 4:35it was a long trip. We were going to Andalusia, the Sevillian,
- 4:44it looked like a train from those of the American West and then, well,
- 4:48we were going on our feet. Only in a few moments people were
- 4:50getting off. We could find the seat and wooden seats. Yeah, yeah,
- 4:55farwest style, but well, this has changed a lot, of course,
- 4:59no. And so, and when you go by train you enjoy the
- 5:03company, sometimes pleasant or sometimes not so pleasant, but of people who are
- 5:09around and you have a spontaneous conversation, you have a coffee, you read
- 5:15a book, you are looking at the landscape, you get up, you
- 5:20go a little to the bar, you come back, etcetera, etcetera.
- 5:24You have and that you enjoy the trip. That' s life. You
- 5:29have to enjoy the journey of life and don' t forget or live with
- 5:32anxiety and anxiety and it seems that you can' t enjoy your family,
- 5:39your friends, the family of faith also that you are an eternal family of
- 5:45care. Eh, in addition, and also enjoy the good moments of life,
- 5:51to like them and to have that ability to appreciate those moments, the
- 5:59beauties of life, sometimes insignificant beauties and some not so insignificant, but very
- 6:04attractive that life has, that has that miscellanea of colors that there is on
- 6:10the horizon truth as a flowery field. And this morning, because we have
- 6:15something very special, look we wanted to dedicate at least I thought I have
- 6:21a very great affection for the gypsy people, since I have a knowledge,
- 6:28especially Christian. I remember that shortly after I met Jesus in my youth and
- 6:34discovered the church in my own neighborhood, in the Raval of Barcelona, I
- 6:40discovered a pastor gypsy church such as Alfredo. I remember many years ago a
- 6:46man, a man of faith, a man such and such, and I
- 6:49was not taught in that line, but every time I went there, to
- 6:54that place, on the street count the assault, for I about the Ramblas
- 6:59of Barcelona and I went sometimes and caught my attention, his spirit, his
- 7:03joy, his fervor and I was always blessed. Then I began to establish
- 7:12contacts, as we have known many in their time, the snoring, the
- 7:16tucho, the pelón that we had with us in our churches, all of
- 7:24them, especially the snoring and the tucho a long time, many times Pichico,
- 7:30a great friend, a friend of the soul. And then, for
- 7:32so many others also Marvel Mudez in his time was more sporadic, but also
- 7:40and he was an excellent preacher. And then, then, so many more,
- 7:46for, evidently, the sysqueet and endless of people to the pelon that
- 7:50we also had, to forgiveness, the pelon I have already told the Pelele
- 7:56and also brother Pelele, who also had a close relationship with him, and
- 8:01to so many others I no longer remember. Many names do not sell Juan
- 8:05Ramón and others I no longer tell brothers like Sicus Carboney and endlessly there has
- 8:13been a closeness and one and one affection. And not only a fondness,
- 8:18but a great respect for Gypsy culture and rediscovering the values of Gypsy culture.
- 8:28And, of course and above all, in the evangelic Christian world, the
- 8:35gypsies have massively emigrated to the evangelical faith because it goes more with them,
- 8:39it is more expressive, more spontaneous, more direct, without intermediaries, without
- 8:46mysteries, no and without all that religious fetishism that exists in other cases.
- 8:52And then, I discovered a lot of good things about them and of course
- 9:00there I remember the brother yen who left with the lord or just with the
- 9:05pandemic. He got married and couldn' t get over it. Just a
- 9:09month before I was with him in Madrid in a meeting and I was happy
- 9:13with a barbarity. We embraced each other very dearly, but so many brothers
- 9:18and sisters and would remember this way on the march and how not our dear
- 9:24guests this morning José Carmona, a man who is a charm of person,
- 9:30for his affection, his empathy and, besides, his good doing, because
- 9:33he is a man who you will already see, his book that we are
- 9:37going to talk about today, that you have to know him, of Punjaba
- 9:41Canarias, the whole history of the Gypsy people in general and then the history
- 9:46in Spain and the Canary Islands as well. But you have to read this
- 9:48book. This book is an essential document to learn about gypsy culture. Then
- 9:52we also have José Carmona, a doctor of psychology, this morning. There
- 9:58' s nothing to see. You are of course the figures of Gitana,
- 10:03the gypsy, have been arantemized many times, because there is a social stereotype,
- 10:11but not the gypsies have anything to do with stories that say good is
- 10:16that crime and crime is in the world of payo and in the gypsy world
- 10:18and in the Latin American world and in the world everywhere. The fact is
- 10:24that the living conditions must be analyzed by this group, which has been very
- 10:31marginalized over many years and also in Spain until now, because there are voices
- 10:37that have been talking and have been putting the thing up to category of recognition,
- 10:43of social importance, a social minority signified, and that, well,
- 10:50they are changing many things, but still have to change and put to make
- 10:54a bet a day. Well, José Carmona is an expert. He is
- 10:58a professor at the University of La Laguna. They have several needs is,
- 11:03a name, an intellectual like the cup of a pyro. He has also
- 11:05written Christian books such as La Cruz, a great book that we will also
- 11:11talk about this and well, we will also enjoy these Gypsy intellectuals that we
- 11:18have with us today, which are some of so many. There are many
- 11:24in Spain professionals, some are politicians who militate in some parties and are also
- 11:33in citizens in the Popular Party, some in some other party. Then we
- 11:39also have Antonio Carmona, writer, great theologian wherever they are. He holds
- 11:46a degree in theology and also a doctorate in divinities from several Spanish and American
- 11:54universities in the United States. Author of the two very interesting books as well.
- 12:01Freedom for the forgotten is one of his previous books. But today we
- 12:05' ll talk about a book you' ve just published to me. It
- 12:07' s called The Bible. He makes a memorandum and synthesis of the history
- 12:13of the Bible, which is a book for those who know nothing and to
- 12:16make a bet to the day on how the Bible has come to us.
- 12:22Read Antonio Carmona' s book. It' s magnificent. It' s
- 12:26great, well, let' s talk to him. It is a pleasure
- 12:30and an honor to have you on the train of life. And of course
- 12:33not, because my admired and dear Séfora Vargas, because she is a friendly
- 12:39fighting woman, with a character, but the character, that good character that
- 12:43has to be determined, resolutional, determined. And so a worker is speaking
- 12:52on the occasion of International Working Women' s Day, for she who has
- 12:56written this also this very important book about getting out of freedom, the cry
- 13:05of freedom. I have here the title of the book that I like,
- 13:13The Cry of Freedom. It' s the book. It is a book
- 13:16on the emancipation of women, of gypsy women, that a culture, because
- 13:20in some archaic aspects. As far as women are concerned as well and in
- 13:24other respects, but as she has been able to give some tones, emancipators
- 13:31and also women in general, then we will be talking to her, but
- 13:35also her book, which also speaks of a story of the Gypsy people for
- 13:41Damis dumis, who understand, for initiates, for people who have to know
- 13:48basically, this book is impressive. I think it is a book with many
- 13:54historical references, very well documented and then focused on stories that reach your soul.
- 14:01You get to very concrete stories of the Gypsy people during the soa Nazi
- 14:09genocide, that the gypsies were exterminated massively along with the Jews, thousands of
- 14:16gypsies were killed and also by the Nazi genocide, as well as homosexuals and
- 14:28people who were discarded for the Nazis of humanity. Well, then, we
- 14:33have these three champions because they are truly people with a combative, fighting spirit.
- 14:39They have a spirit when you talk to them, as long as you
- 14:43get it. José Carmona, doctor of psychology. Antonio Carmona, also a
- 14:50doctor of theology and writer. Both writers and also gone rod is that she
- 14:54is a lawyer and is also a writer and lecturer. This conference these days
- 15:00in many forums and tomorrow, even on the occasion of International Women' s
- 15:05Day, will be on several programs. So much is on Spanish television radio
- 15:11programs, the Burgués ester program. It' s also going to be at
- 15:16night, Burguese Time, et cetera, et cetera. It is with us
- 15:20that we also make a note of the issue of women, also with it
- 15:26of International Women' s Day. Well, then, all this and more
- 15:31stuff, good music, the music we' re going to hear. We
- 15:35will start with a music my friend Alex, who is in the sound control,
- 15:39who watch it sing by Roberto Hernández and Juan Ramón, Juan Ramón de
- 15:45Rocío, and then it is a composition made by Roberto Hernández. The grace
- 15:52of God. Bellisim This song I love. Both of you. They both
- 15:56sing it, both of them. Then we will have asiks Carboney also one
- 16:00of his compositions to the system how we will not listen this morning also that
- 16:06they are very dear and well known voices among us and I invite you to
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- 16:56God' s grace is like the wind and it reaches you in a moment
- 17:34embraces you, take the hand of feeling forgive something happens in you. The
- 17:55grace of God that they brown the hair a token of his love is like
- 18:08that du deserved. You know I arrested him, but we didn' t
- 18:17explain it. The grace of God does not come sora, accompanying the hours
- 18:29the compassion of per And if it does not wander the memory and remember your
- 18:40story, will know that God grace led you to God surrenders that which gag
- 18:52of God. He said what came on the way open to eternity, not
- 19:04meringo, but vera God. The grace of God is like the wind.
- 19:26It hits you in a moment, hugs your heart and comes to you they
- 19:36take you off the manna, you feel forgiven and something happens. God'
- 19:48s grace is his jute. I want to caress the pebo a token of
- 19:57his love, like that domimbecio. You know what has been received, but
- 20:10they do not explain it, but God' s grace does not come alone,
- 20:22it accompanies my forgiveness at all times and if you do not miss the
- 20:33memory and you remember your story, you will know that God to God,
- 20:42Grace, the day brings what is not and what grace of God said does
- 20:52not come heart, whether it comes from God, the way opened to the
- 21:07Esther by the seafaring see God give gift to burn radia of God said,
- 21:19the delected Heart, grace of God, the way opened to the Eternity because
- 21:33I deserve mere Godheads these things have been given to us from his eternal,
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- 23:51of life, Post or, ladies and gentlemen, are we traveling on the
- 24:12train of life? Here, in the master car, where we always welcome
- 24:18good friends. You know you say that journalists are accountants of things. Yes,
- 24:26it' s true, sometimes good things and sometimes not so good,
- 24:30sometimes true things and other uncertain things in the worst cases. But we have
- 24:37to talk about a town that is between a millennial flight, such as the
- 24:42gypsy people, and we are going to talk to one of them, a
- 24:48test gypsy, plus a man who is an intellectual, a man with a
- 24:52great academic background and a doctor in theology, forgiveness in psychology. In theology
- 24:59we will later have Antonio Carmona, but we have José Carmona, the doctor
- 25:04in psychology and also writer of several books, one of them very interesting,
- 25:10from punjat to the Canary Islands, the history of the Gypsy people and goes
- 25:17through many historical challenges, including Spain and also the Canary Islands, also where
- 25:22he currently resides. And well, they' re going to realize in their
- 25:26tone, in their knowledge of the subject, because the importance, the relevance
- 25:34of gypsy history and gypsy culture and we' re going to talk to him
- 25:38and I want to welcome José Carmona. Good morning, Jose, good morning.
- 25:45Greeting you for July and in principle, I can thank you for the
- 25:52opportunity and congratulations for those thirty years being in the air, making a difference
- 26:00and thanking you for the opportunity you give me as well as my colleagues Antonio
- 26:03Carmona and went on a journey to make that costly work visible that we are
- 26:10doing. People who are of Roma ethnicity, but who, besides sharing that
- 26:15ethnic nuance, I think we have a superior identity, because it is more
- 26:21transcendent and is that we are evangelical Christians redeemed by the work of Jesus Christ
- 26:26in the Court of Calvary. And I believe that if the three of us
- 26:32are in this program, we thank you mainly that it has been moved by
- 26:37God, but it is thanks to the unconditional work that the evangelical people have
- 26:42done, for the inclusion of the Gypsy people, because if it had not
- 26:52been for the Gospel of Jesus Christ, without doubting either Séphora, Antonio or
- 26:56a servant, we would be here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 26:57Well, honorable to go about this, because I think that' s
- 27:03true, that we have to give glory to our good God, because that
- 27:10' s where our there originates makes sense, our history of each one in
- 27:14particular. Then we can see identities of this or that background. But Jesus
- 27:21Christ gives us identity and also makes us love life in its best version.
- 27:29Yes, yes, well, hear about topics talk to us a little bit
- 27:36about your formation, your trajectory, your current performance, so that our listeners
- 27:41remember those who did not hear you before and those who make a reminder tell
- 27:48us about you from your family. A little good, because I belong to
- 27:52that generation of gypsies that my family know about a hundred years that we no
- 27:59longer live in the Peninsulary, our most remote origins. According to research carried
- 28:03out by my cousins, We come, therefore, all of what is the
- 28:07part of the Granadina alpujarra, we descend to the archada Malagueña and from there
- 28:14my great- grandmothers, certainly that grandmothers, also of Antonio de Arbona,
- 28:18go to Amelidia and our family has always been, therefore, a saleswoman of
- 28:23very disturbing clothes. We arrived in Canaria. In the case of my generation,
- 28:27we were born in Argentina and there the Evangelical Church Philadelphia is the one
- 28:33who owes much and to those pioneers the Gospel begins in the year seventy-
- 28:40six, which I was only one and a half years old, and then
- 28:45in the year eighty- three, already nine years old, because we are
- 28:48in it comes to us. I went to second grade. I practically learn
- 28:52to read with the Bible and when I am nineteen years old, I am
- 28:57already a pastor and we start here in the Canary Islands. Thanks also to
- 29:02among them, Antonio de Argona, who is a cousin of mine and is
- 29:04older than me a couple of years, and to an uncle we both shared,
- 29:07who today is in the presence of Mr Juan Maldonado, and other friendly
- 29:12pastors. We started studying at Saving. The fact is that I really learn
- 29:18to write thanks to the work that he knows about the Center for Biblical Research
- 29:22of Canaria, with José Manuel Díaz Yane and very linked to Barcelona, because
- 29:27there was Pedro Pusperl, Bernardo Sánchez, that magnificent generation that God has given
- 29:33us. And thanks to them and because I learn to write. The point
- 29:38is, I graduated in two years high school social work. It has already
- 29:42been a very accelerated race, because it has been the grace of God.
- 29:48I can say that both Séfora and Antonio a server. While it is true
- 29:53that there are many inclusion programmes for the people of Mexico, none of the
- 29:56three of us have been part of those programmes. We are the fruit of
- 30:00the effort of our family and the support of the Christian people, who have
- 30:04believed in the transformation of people and who know that education is the most powerful
- 30:08weapon that can transform society. And for one thing, we are recognized as
- 30:15the people of the book. The Christian people are the people of the book,
- 30:18and it is that all revolve around us of Jesus Christ and the legacy
- 30:23of Christ, the message of Christ. While it is true that we have
- 30:27transcendent mystical experiences, that the Holy Spirit is real, but our faith is
- 30:32based on a historical fact, by a book that has two thousand years of
- 30:36survival with the greatest persecutions and that in none of the attempts have been able
- 30:41to stop it. And that has come to us and transformed us and for
- 30:45us it is a pride. Well said, it is an injection of self
- 30:53- esteem to know that we are the result of those principles, of the
- 30:59principles of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. What a beautiful synthesis of your history
- 31:03and your family we celebrate. Well, there' s this last book.
- 31:08We will talk about the other also that is interesting, the Cross, but
- 31:15the one from Punjab to Punhat to the Canary Islands, the history of the
- 31:21Gypsy people, that of Arbert Box, which can be found in Amazon.
- 31:23I imagine not yes, the book right now we were modifying, because the
- 31:29idea of this book I am not a historian. My training is social work
- 31:33and I am in social sciences, in social sciences, in the elaboration of
- 31:38the thesis, in my cocon as a scientist, who is really a social
- 31:44researcher, is what I do. I have a personal self- discovery with
- 31:49my gypsy identity, but I discover that in the Canary Islands neither the majority
- 31:56society knows the history of the gypsy people. And the saddest thing is that
- 31:57the gypsy people know the most important elements of their leader Meri their symbol,
- 32:04that is, the history of the gypsy people is unknown not only to the
- 32:08majority society, but also to the gican people. So, in this elaboration
- 32:12of thesis and thanks to the lord the opportunities that I have to work as
- 32:16a researcher, cultural promoter and working for the inclusion of the Gypsy people,
- 32:22because of all the cuts that have been made, the end- of-
- 32:28grade works, scientific publications, thesis works, because then I have the initiative,
- 32:36with the support of the institutions with which I work at the moment,
- 32:38with the Cabildo de Tenerife, thanks to the Federation of Rome BAX, to
- 32:44make a historical compilation, which is not the most exhautive research, if it
- 32:49has a clearly scientific character, because what we want to demonstrate is that the
- 32:52Gypsy people, a canarian, is here in force since the seventeenth century,
- 32:58since the beginning of the twentieth century, is centered and sadly the Gypsies that
- 33:00we are in shared Canary Islands are lucky with the rest of the Canaries,
- 33:06that we are ultra peripheral and in the great national research, like the national
- 33:07housing survey. We didn' t show up the relational health surveys by the
- 33:09gypsies. Nor do the state plans come then, because the Gypsy people are
- 33:15a people who are settled in the Canary Islands and are part of that history,
- 33:21because it was opportune to take them out In principle it has been free.
- 33:27Which happens that in order to be able to hang it and give it
- 33:32matidor diffusion in some places, they are putting it in sales. We recommend
- 33:35that you do not pay, because we have all the channels so that you
- 33:37can download it in the digital version for free. One of the very important
- 33:42things because for me this book is important, because, in addition to promoting
- 33:46gypsy culture is the key, it has been the door to entering the social
- 33:53sphere and now we are also working on a second research with brothers and sisters,
- 33:59friends and friends are doing end- of- grade work, since I
- 34:02am linked to Benia Docenti and to teaching in the degree of social work of
- 34:07the University of La Laguna, because the gypsy Canarian people are culturally evangelical.
- 34:15So, while here the work of the air of evangelical religious teaching hardly small
- 34:21to schools, we are having opportunity, through the history of the Gypsy people,
- 34:25from that anthropological and cultural element, to share as the Gypsy people is
- 34:30an evangelical people and that really the work of inclusion of the Gypsy people unselfishly
- 34:37without expecting anything. In return, giving their lives with blood and sweat and
- 34:43tear, to the pastors and evangelical pastors, because all the programs, behind
- 34:47all the state programs that there are municipal, autonomous, we are already talking
- 34:53about public suspensions, people who work for the gypsies, but also home and
- 34:59live thanks to that work. But if there are figures to be highlighted are
- 35:05pastors, those factors, those families who have gone to English, places to
- 35:10preach open church, they have acted as social mediators, they have acted as
- 35:16psychologists, they are even acting as lawyers, as lawyers. I don'
- 35:23t know the factors. If I have to value a profession here on Earth,
- 35:29in pastoral function, because the factors are the only ones working twenty-
- 35:32four, seven, three hundred, sixty- five days. So that job
- 35:38we' re in, we want people to know it. That' s
- 35:44good. How interesting the origins you tell us about the implantation in the Canary
- 35:52Islands itself, where you reside of the Roma minority. But in your book
- 35:59begins to the origins of the Roma Roma Gypsy people and the Roma Roma Gypsy
- 36:06people. Also then in the Iberian Peninsula, make us a breviary of this
- 36:13origin. I explain. Let' s see that the prehistory of the Gypsy
- 36:19people goes back to Punjab. It' s an area in India Pakistan.
- 36:23It' s prehistory, that is, data. I understand that there are
- 36:30people who start from hypothesis theories, but for me, what does not have
- 36:32an empirical scientific value, I cannot contrast it by my scientific character. Then
- 36:37the prehistory of the gypsy people is India that formerly India would come from elsewhere.
- 36:43We don' t know that and there' s no scientific evidence that
- 36:46we can assert it. We would have to go into faith, but in
- 36:49scientific empirical matters it is India in its migration process. By the year a
- 36:53thousand begins this migration process, one thousand and four hundred and twenty- five.
- 36:58One thousand and four hundred and twenty- five arrive in the Iberian Peninsula
- 37:04and they begin there. The one thousand four hundred and ninety- two fought
- 37:07a series with the totalitarianism of Catholic kings. Jews are expelled, Muslims and
- 37:12gypsies are expelled. They do not agree to expel him because the gypsies,
- 37:17for one place, on the one hand, are the belt containing the Muslim
- 37:22invasion. They have also been the hand of works of the mines and were
- 37:27also the rowers of the Jalera. Then, from there, the Gypsy people
- 37:30fought against cloak and sword to maintain their identity and run the same fate as
- 37:36the evangelicals, the Casaña brothers, the Cyprian monks of Valera, almost of
- 37:42Reina. To say, we evangelicals and gypsies have run the same fate in
- 37:46the Iberian Peninsula. Total Catholic monarchic vitarism exterminates all the different if successively,
- 37:54for the Gypsy people in the 20th century, when there begins to be a
- 38:00little hope, that is where. That is where my family, who go
- 38:04to my light come to the Canary Islands, appears, and here, in
- 38:08Canaria, thanks to the interculturality of the Canary Islands Archipelago and also because in
- 38:14the year from the years at the end of the seventies, the Gypsy people
- 38:17embrace the Protestant faith. In this way the book so ends, we show
- 38:22how there are almost forty people who have overcome that which, compared to the
- 38:27rest of the majority society, is insignificant. But considering that school failure in
- 38:31Spain, those who are gypsies and gypsies researchers estimate it waiting. Ninety percent
- 38:39canary, we have one, we have girls who are lawyers, psychologist,
- 38:47social workers, we have boys who are nurses, Antonio who is a theologian,
- 38:52we have philosophers. And the most interesting thing is that more than eighty
- 38:55- five percent of them your parents are evangelical factors and that they share the
- 39:01Christian faith, because truly the transformation of those gypsies and gypsies who have overcome
- 39:08all the barriers of stereotypes, all the barriers of anti- Gypsy. The
- 39:15main driving force in most cases has to do with the principles of the Gospel
- 39:20of Jesus Christ, so I am more than convinced that if there is a
- 39:24philosophical element, no longer only spiritual, but theoretical philosophical, that can bring
- 39:31equality, that can bring interculturality, capacity for dialogue, they are the principles
- 39:38of Protestant reform, without taking away that there is any other extremist. Unfortunately,
- 39:45in all human groups there is. But I do believe and I am
- 39:49convinced that the Christian faith has all the elements to create an inclusive world.
- 39:54No doubt, without a doubt, you make a magnificent challenge, s synthesis
- 40:00to situate us. Then, from the origins that we see of the Gypsy
- 40:07people there in India, also the Roma Roma people in the Iberian Peninsula And
- 40:14then, evidently, the periods of persecution that have been very recurrent, because
- 40:21it is a characteristically persecuted people, very similar to the Jews. Yeah,
- 40:29we share, keep in mind that we' ve been sharing since a thousand
- 40:32four hundred and ninety- two. We begin with more than 250 pragmatics.
- 40:37Of course, it has also been forged by something that is the popular imagination.
- 40:42The figure of the gypsy has not only been persecuted by systemic lexs,
- 40:49but also the worst that we are currently fighting with them with the popular imaginary,
- 40:53bearing in mind that until not long ago and in fact, it is
- 40:58still collected as one of the sections is that the gigitano is synonymous with a
- 41:02trapper. Yeah, that image We' re fighting with that footage. On
- 41:07the one hand, the Gypsy people. All this has served to be an
- 41:10hermetic, indogamic people and, on the other hand, the popular imaginary,
- 41:14because it finds the evidence that they need to keep commenting on it. For
- 41:19me, what' s the saddest thing. The saddest thing is that the
- 41:21gypsy people as a people are a people who, from the sixties onwards,
- 41:25embrace Protestantism, Protestant reform, a very significant amount in the national territory.
- 41:34Since the gypsy churches exceed a thousand churches, they are in a position to
- 41:43be warmed up, i e they are in a position where they are rejected
- 41:50and self- rejected, i e they marginalize and self- marginate. Thus,
- 41:52considering this, the inclusion of the Roma people not only key slave from
- 41:58a social political perspective, but also is very important from a missionary perspective,
- 42:02bearing in mind that Spain is part of the great missionary investigations of the 70th
- 42:08window of the peoples less reached today by the Gospel of Jesus, when we
- 42:14have a thousand churches in which neither the majority society has access nor those churches
- 42:19are in a position to be inclusive, is the sad reality with which we
- 42:24are living. So, I dream that one day there will be that opening
- 42:31from both inside and outside, that is, that there is a change in
- 42:36the system, because if those churches and the inclusion of the Gypsy people is
- 42:40impossible. It would mean that a thousand churches would be incorporated to preach the
- 42:47gospel in Spain sun all the potential involves more than a thousand churches. It
- 42:52says it' s a fight. The inclusion of the gypsy people not only
- 42:54has a political, socio- economic and cultural scope, and what is also
- 43:00something that we evangelicals have to take very seriously, because I have no doubt
- 43:07that the gypsy people are one of the peoples with the greatest potential for the
- 43:12evangelization of Europe. In November of the two thousand twenty- two I was
- 43:17in Prague at a congress that is held by the nations, by the European
- 43:22Union, where they had digitized thirty- seven, of thirty- seven localities,
- 43:29but specifically twenty- eight of Europe and the most significant that more than
- 43:34seventy percent were evangelicals. Yes, if that public reflection and that I do,
- 43:37I can subscribe it with all the affection and love that I personally feel
- 43:42towards the Gypsy people and my friends of the soul. No, and I
- 43:47think a lot of us think the same way. But the self- inclusion,
- 43:52the self- inclusion of the one of whether the existing gypsy communities very
- 44:00immense of Philadelphia, but other branches also of networks of gypsy churches that are
- 44:06not Philadelphia, that exist also in Spain, have that sensitivity, that ability,
- 44:14of that grace, of inclusiveness, of being also heterogeneous churches. And
- 44:20this is a bomb. It' s a bomb to reach everyone, all
- 44:25kinds of people. True, it is given to a small extent. But
- 44:30suddenly, with the missionary vision of reaching the world, the surrounding world.
- 44:37In the churches that are of Gnia gypsy they are projected in all directions.
- 44:44This is true that you have thrown a bomb there, a proposal that is
- 44:51interesting and it is true that I am an ecclesiologist also because I am responsible
- 44:57for a network of churches, but church planter, saw them the pros and
- 45:02cons, both sociological ecclesiological that are given in favor and against the planting of
- 45:09churches. This is one of them. Yes, sir, therefore, we
- 45:14must take good note to go much further. But speaking in the book,
- 45:19you talk to us in your book about the gypsy cante origin of flamenco that
- 45:28I imagined had a lot to do with it. Of course, another of
- 45:31the stigmatizations that we are suffering from the Gypsy people has to do with singing,
- 45:37because I understand for myself the concept of redemption in the light of the
- 45:42Bible. I am a frustrated theologian, because I have never been able to
- 45:45study all the triology that I like, although the study is a graduate,
- 45:49I am a graduate in theology by the Seisving, but really my social work
- 45:54and the concept of redemption is that, after all, I am a panto
- 46:00ecnotis the mateo twenty- eight, eighteen, all ethnicities. We must be
- 46:02disciples of Jesus Christ the arts. The arts must be redeemed to give glory,
- 46:07for that is the purpose that Jesus Christ be all in all, all
- 46:12in him for his glory. So, if we see how the gypsy people
- 46:17express their culture, there are pictures that reveal it since the thousand six hundred
- 46:22works of art, the gypsy singing, the dance, the cultural expression.
- 46:28There is a mix in Baja Andalucía and we cannot say that flamenco is its
- 46:32own gypsy, but that main contribution is from the gypsy. What happens is
- 46:37that the saddest thing or a fellow Christian who is doing a very important job
- 46:42in prisons in Spain, called José Suárez el Torombo. We have shared a
- 46:49lot and considering that Seville, for example, has more than 300 places where
- 46:52flamenco is put. Sadly the artists who have taken flamenco to become patriotic mons
- 46:59of humanity, as we could speak of the families of the Revuelo, of
- 47:02the Raimundo, of the whole family of Reimundo, to the greatest remedy Amalia.
- 47:07Well, we' re talking about the pop of the flamenco top.
- 47:13They are, unfortunately, in a stigmatized neighborhood. The neighborhood is not the
- 47:16problem or its people. The problem is anti- Gypsy. And how is
- 47:21it possible for the pastor to have three hundred places where flamenco is exposed and
- 47:25that those people who are flamenco since birth are not occupying the best places.
- 47:31If we look right now at all the flamenco programs, where there is teaching
- 47:37of flamenco, where flamenco is taught, because flamenco is an eibe of Spain,
- 47:43that is to say, in the interior, the interior product group is
- 47:47surpassing 7%. And how is it possible that those gypsies who have that
- 47:52capacity to generate that culture, that service that branded Spain, are happening in
- 47:59those cities. If you' re going to hurt yourself, you can find
- 48:02the best guitarists who aren' t working and don' t have a decent
- 48:07life. You can find the singers who have given all their lives on board
- 48:10and haven' t even been working all their lives and don' t even
- 48:15qualify for a decent retirement. That' s what strikes me. It doesn
- 48:21' t catch my eye if anyone' s gypsy singing space doesn' t
- 48:23kick. What strikes me is that if the gypsy has that capacity and that
- 48:28ability to do culture, it is from the redemption of that culture that they
- 48:35can have a dignified life. Working in a theatre, giving dance teachers to
- 48:40be the ones selling gypsy clothes, i e flamenco or a culture. How
- 48:46can we have a people who are going through need, who live marginality,
- 48:52when culturally it has an ability to produce economy that generates seven percent of a
- 48:58country. I' m not here. I' m not so interested in
- 49:00musical nuance. I' m interested in the transformational nuance. You imagine,
- 49:07pastor, if that gypsy and that gypsy were the owners of the galleries,
- 49:12where they put on the faralage costumes, all the cosmetics and the gypsy aesthetics,
- 49:16the food that is around, the academies that are around, the musical
- 49:22productions, the theaters, the villages that in ninety percent spread the Gospel of
- 49:28Jesus Christ. We would be the show button that the Gospel transforms. That
- 49:34' s right, that' s right, I' m good. There
- 49:37are many there are many variables of what you' re saying interesting that we
- 49:43might even have just one program about this. But, for example, good
- 49:46flamenco singing in the voice of gypsy. Well Camarón, for example, a
- 49:52pro gypsy who raised flamenco to the highest level that, by the way,
- 49:59in the latter part of his life, had an encounter with the lord also
- 50:04already at the critical moment of his life that was already so sick, thank
- 50:09God. But it means it' s evidence and there' s so many
- 50:13there. That' s a list. I am using memory, but good
- 50:17is also an interesting note in the book about the gypsy cante origin of flamenco.
- 50:22But the gypsy people in the Spanish Civil War and then the gypsy people
- 50:28and Francoism, for a part of the civil war and then Francoism. These
- 50:32two stages are complicated stages. True, if they are complicated stages and not
- 50:40well known. I' m going to tell you an example that I didn
- 50:44' t pick up in the book because I told myself. A later uncle
- 50:45of mine, a good aunt of mine, my great aunt, to her
- 50:52son at the age of sixteen. My grandfather' s first- born uncle
- 50:55passes the red truck called red, they wear that. What happens that in
- 51:00the village, the people were people and re- Franquist and to her the
- 51:07captain of the village that had there, the captain calls her and takes her
- 51:13to the barracks, when my aunt wanted to justify them and take her life
- 51:17with the rest of the reds in the village, My aunt told the captain
- 51:23what she called me and you told her it' s called loneliness, no,
- 51:25she didn' t tell her. No, no, what you call
- 51:28me when I' m not present, then he said well, no,
- 51:31don' t tell me and in the end he presses it so hard that
- 51:36it ends up telling him. The gypsy says, because that' s what
- 51:37we are. We' re gypsies, we' re not red, we
- 51:39' re not Francoists. In the end, he showed her that she had
- 51:45her hair cut to give a lesson and thus saves her life. But that
- 51:50is the reality that the history of the Gypsy people is reflected in the civil
- 51:52war. The Gypsy and Gypsy people. The Gypsy people, unfortunately, do
- 51:58not have a political apparatus. Not removing that yes, I show you in
- 52:01evidence that there have been gypsies who have been from the right, others,
- 52:07who have been from the left, others who, that is, there have
- 52:12been different gypsies, characters who have been able to build a political apparatus,
- 52:17with which they were linked to certain positions, but in general, it was
- 52:22not the position of the gypsy people, because the gypsy people, so many
- 52:27years of repression, what they are least interested in between quotation marks, I
- 52:30say, was the conflict of the cloths. That is why it is very
- 52:32important to rescue him, because, on the other hand, the Gypsy people
- 52:38need to start building a different political apparatus positively right now. It is interesting
- 52:46all the reflections we are gnawing at, of course because there are details developed
- 52:55about the Gypsy people and Francoism. During Francoism, how it was treated,
- 53:00how it was ignored, and also the Gypsy people during the Spanish Civil War
- 53:07all the avatars it meant for all the citizens. But also, evidently,
- 53:13you have told that anecdote that is very descriptive. You speak also of gypsy.
- 53:20To the ghetto what do you mean by that? Oh. That'
- 53:24s one of the chapters where it' s the most open to me,
- 53:29because I' ve all been a self- discovery. Anyone who today takes
- 53:31any highway of the big cities and you can see the mine, the three
- 53:37thousand houses, the thousand houses, the palm for midi in Malaga and at
- 53:40first sight we say the gypsies, growing that these constructions have been created by
- 53:47the gypsies and that this is the habitat the guitars like to have. However,
- 53:52when we dig a little bit in history, we discover that the gypsy
- 53:59shops so called as are the Jewish Quarters, because they have been Jewish Quarters
- 54:04and that nowadays Jewish Quarters are preserved in Córdoba, in part, in other
- 54:08parts, in Granada, the gypsies have had their own territory, which have
- 54:15always been on the outskirts of the cities. And so where the gypsies have
- 54:17managed to elaborate their culture and turn them into gypsy centers, they have expropriated
- 54:24them, they have taken their places. It serves as an example Triana.
- 54:30The gypsy has been Entriana since 1, 500 seventy, where there were fourteen
- 54:35forges, which must be understood that in those moments of the time, the
- 54:39gypsies were what supplied the Spanish army with everything that was blacksmith and all the
- 54:45maintenance, both agricultural and war Spain. I was at war at the time.
- 54:50Then that place. There they develop a way of life. In fact,
- 54:53in the 1950s the first Gypsy school appeared. We are talking, that
- 55:00is, the level of inclusion there was absolutely total. There they have been,
- 55:04there have been cribs of bullfighting like the cocks. And what to say
- 55:07about the gypsy before that was the forge. For in the years from the
- 55:12fifties and sixties, behind a political economic interest, they use the Gypsies and
- 55:16turn them literally, they leave it outside and in the late sixties, as
- 55:22in the San Pablo polygon, it is a urbanistic failure, because the Sevillian
- 55:29worker does not want to go to live and do not know what to do
- 55:32with that housing. They host these gypsies by staying from the three thousand living
- 55:38and many empty, that many gypsies coming from other parts, which were to
- 55:44walk rivers, end up creating a ghetto. In the 1980s, the issue
- 55:50of drugs, heroin, has become a ghetto where for many years they have
- 55:54been stigmatized, but Gypsies do not seek to live in it. Another thing
- 56:00is that there are already four or five generations who have grown up in that
- 56:06context and I have seen it. Another reality that you will like to live
- 56:10here surrounded by misery and that the nearest health center has it twelve kilometers away.
- 56:15We all like mon Iberian, of course, of course, he'
- 56:22s true. This reflection is interesting. I remember when I started, that
- 56:25I also learned to read. I learned to read well, because I had
- 56:30gone too little alcohol, because I was very sick. I was eight to
- 56:32twelve and barely read more. I learned to read well by reading the New
- 56:38Testament. He was a young man, he was a kid, but I
- 56:43started reading. I was late for culture. I started reading everything not and
- 56:46I started reading Paco Candela, Francisco Candel, who was then senator for a
- 56:52political party during democracy and was a man who advocated human rights and such an
- 57:00interesting one. But Paco Candel lived in the cheap houses here, in the
- 57:07free trade zone, which was populated mostly by gypsies, the vast majority and
- 57:15has several books. Well he is the famous author of the other Catalans to
- 57:20the Catalan salters that the other Catalans, no, but that is a book
- 57:25of very interesting inclusivity, but he has several books I was moved to start
- 57:30reading. They were the first books I started reading. And that' s
- 57:34where the city changes its name. There are some social descriptions of the misery,
- 57:40of the marginalization, especially of the gypsies. And then they have killed
- 57:46a man, they have broken a landscape, I remember, another one of
- 57:51his books and or the character in question was such, the gypsy who was
- 57:54a gypsy too and such and to me it was my soul to read stasis
- 58:00that he described them so that they became aware of these marginal groups, but
- 58:07not socially marginalized, and that he demanded social justice for all and especially for
- 58:14them. So, and that was him, he started in the' 60s
- 58:17and it started in the' 60s. There in the cheap houses, like
- 58:21the three thousand houses of Seville, so emblematic that you told us. I
- 58:28mean, it means it' s true. It is the history of marginalization
- 58:30that, well, it seems that the public authorities, little by little sections
- 58:36of the public authorities, are awakening to inclusiveness. That is precisely where it
- 58:45is also very important to bear in mind that, for example, three thousand
- 58:49sevillaapolícalo houses south of the Barcelona mine, but the Evangelical Church, with a
- 58:55very important empresía and there are doactors that I do not today part of the
- 59:00work of Philadelphia. But for me that' s insignificant. What a human
- 59:02organization I belong to. For me the most important thing is Jesus Christ,
- 59:06the body of Christ and the evangelical faith transcending human organizations. But from here
- 59:12I want to pay a tribute to those protors who are in those slums,
- 59:16who are essated, who the majority society, say that you are from the
- 59:22mine, who are of the three thousand houses that from Palma, for me
- 59:24already produce a rejection. These pastors are there working, sitting in front of
- 59:29the drugs, facing marginality, facing social exclusion, school failure, and those
- 59:34men do not have those resources anymore. I don' t think any of
- 59:40them don' t even have a living wage to live on. Of them
- 59:44those pastors who are there make markets or are working at other hours to prepare
- 59:50yes, those pastors, I say and the ministerial body and the rest of
- 59:53members, but keep in mind that really the autonomous state plans of city hall,
- 1:00:01which do have economic resources, do not develop or do such important social
- 1:00:08work or are doing those evangelical churches. Yeah, without that, it'
- 1:00:13s pretty accurate. I am a witness, I am the director of the
- 1:00:15Evangelical Council of the Churches of Barcelona and I know all these pitfalls and from
- 1:00:22near and far, and it is very true and neighborhoods like the Mina or
- 1:00:30San Roque and so many others, or the Dusterín of other cities also and
- 1:00:38what the Gypsy churches have in those places. And this we want to put
- 1:00:44into value and vindicate it, because it is very true. Besides, I
- 1:00:46would say it as a sociologist also although I am a training journalist, but
- 1:00:53I also have features of that. It means where the gypsy evangelical churches are.
- 1:01:00They exercise a social influence, a catalyst against the surrounding crime, against
- 1:01:07marginalization, against all kinds of negative things. That is, the benign positive
- 1:01:15effect of the Gypsy churches. Where they are is very high. Some politicians
- 1:01:22have noticed little and have favored the ground. There are few cases, but
- 1:01:31there are. One of them is the mine. By the way, the
- 1:01:36City Hall was very sensitive to this. But that the social influence they exert
- 1:01:40positive and reintegration, the redemption of substantial changes in the Community, surrounding the
- 1:01:50siglesiacity, is barbarous. So this is one thing to put into value.
- 1:01:58I put in a professional worker. By chance yesterday we were in a meeting
- 1:02:02with a town hall here, on the island of Tenerife, and when they
- 1:02:06the technicians, ask for reference that or social worker more of community court.
- 1:02:10I understand that the Evangelical Church in the case of the Gypsy people, not
- 1:02:15only in the Gypsy people, the churches that work with migrations, that is,
- 1:02:17this is a work that the Evangelical Church does, regardless of the last
- 1:02:22name we want to put assemblies of God Philadelphia free brothers, the Evangelical Church
- 1:02:28in Spain is the best ally that social services have, because in the largest
- 1:02:32support network that works you are interested. The evangelical people are an altruistic people,
- 1:02:40100 per cent of whom are on canyons working multilevelly in different spheres.
- 1:02:47If there is a problem of marriage, conflict resolution or an anti- drug,
- 1:02:52vice, anti- crime message and a reintegration holiday, who accepts those
- 1:02:58100 percent principles are not psychologists, it' s true, but I don
- 1:03:02' t know what they have that after all, one is talk, Pastor
- 1:03:06tells you, ends up transforming life. I don' t know what you
- 1:03:07' re doing. They are not a doctor, it is true, but
- 1:03:10a prayer of these people produces a well- being if the majority society were
- 1:03:16aware of the effects. He has the preaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
- 1:03:21without a doubt, although I understand that every free and willing person has to
- 1:03:24take to the faith and how he wants to live and are respectable, but
- 1:03:30it is sad that, as the Gypsy people are stigmatized. I suffer from
- 1:03:34a number of discriminations, but I suffer more discrimination because I am evangelical than
- 1:03:39because I am gypsy and sometimes because I am gypsy because I am evangelical.
- 1:03:42I don' t know why I' m discriminated against anymore, but if
- 1:03:45there' s something that hurts me so much, it' s discrimination that
- 1:03:50I also suffer because I' m evangelical. We are stigmatized so that,
- 1:03:52having a message of hope, a message of ugly resilient elements, we will
- 1:04:00not be able to get it to the majority society free of prejudice. Another
- 1:04:05thing is that I want to assist them later, but I do believe that
- 1:04:11we must fight as much as gypsies as Latinos as evangelicals. One of the
- 1:04:15great problems we have in Spain is called prejudices yes, we have to overcome
- 1:04:20that because, for example, I recently launched an article in my weekly blog
- 1:04:26of digital protestation, which the evangelical churches contribute to Spanish society an endless number
- 1:04:31of things not only laculto or cultual, which is of our vein of faith,
- 1:04:39of course it is very important for us. But beyond that, the
- 1:04:45evangelical social work is imposing. It is imposing comparatively and in addition that the
- 1:04:53car we finance with own resources from personal donations. But this is true.
- 1:05:00In social mediation, in human conflicts, mediation in families, in the community
- 1:05:03between people, accompaniment, everything is that value from the human point of view,
- 1:05:10all this is a tremendous enormous value that we pastors and believers also bring
- 1:05:16to this work. There is an interesting chapter that you have already made notes
- 1:05:26about the Gypsy people, Spanish citizens of full right. That' s where
- 1:05:30you give us a note. Yes, to see is that many people,
- 1:05:34even those who have been the most surprised up to a thousand nine hundred and
- 1:05:40seventy- eight, do not begin to recognize us as full citizens, that
- 1:05:45is, in the case of my families, as we are living in Melidia,
- 1:05:49that belonged to the Spanish protectorate in Spain and that, in fact,
- 1:05:54it is still Mély of Spain. There is one when you meet another,
- 1:05:59another ethnic group, another a genic group that are in the social strata,
- 1:06:02moreover, you can be access to public schools and so on. But a
- 1:06:09very famous singer who is Amaya remedies, who shares the Christian faith. Regardless,
- 1:06:14I haven' t had the pleasure to meet her, but to have
- 1:06:17seen her act some time again. She' s one of the interviews that
- 1:06:20makes her realize that her illusion was to go to school. Her father,
- 1:06:25her mother buys her a pen and she goes with two leaves, with her
- 1:06:29little eye and her pen is twelve years old and when she goes to school,
- 1:06:34she is made and told that gypsies cannot enter. A thousand nine hundred
- 1:06:40and eighty- five, the Amen ochente program can be put on YouTube,
- 1:06:45you can see it Vicálvaro and different central parts of Madrid are barricaded so that
- 1:06:54the gypsy children do not go to school. Yeah, it' s just
- 1:06:58very important. A cousin of mine who by national he. Speaking with him,
- 1:07:02Joseph tells me you have to keep in mind that a good part of
- 1:07:08the gypsies who live in the great cities Padrid. We' re in the
- 1:07:14second generation that you have sanitation at home. I mean. It' s
- 1:07:19sad. It is sad to know that there is some generation that people who
- 1:07:27are thirty, thirty- five years old individuals in shantytown and, in fact,
- 1:07:30right now the real pregnant, as they exceed the thousands of people who
- 1:07:35do not have in a plenum and a winter kur like two years ago,
- 1:07:40with temperatures below five degrees, you did not even have light. Tremendous tremendous
- 1:07:47is really painful. Sorry, because this topic gives a lot of itself,
- 1:07:55but I love it is your descriptive way of explaining to us and making a
- 1:08:00breviary, because the theme is to read it from the Canarian punch. It
- 1:08:03' s the story of the Gypsy people. Da Arvel Botch. Can you
- 1:08:08on Amazon platforms against José Carmona Santiago? José Carmona Santiago and this magnificent book
- 1:08:15make a bet a day. But before we say goodbye, I' d
- 1:08:19like you to give us a review of your book. The Cross. The
- 1:08:21title caught my attention, because the Cross always strikes me. So deep is
- 1:08:29the inexhaustible theme and there Alex now puts us on Facebook lights. This book
- 1:08:36The Cross is the result of my personal emotions. I, although right now
- 1:08:45I exercise it as a pastor, because I am in science, in research,
- 1:08:48because I collaborate with the different ones. It is all the churches that
- 1:08:51allow me to do so, so they are part of emotional and I understand
- 1:08:59that the whole base, the whole basis of Christian identity, has to do
- 1:09:01with the cross. Christian conversion is the fact, as we identify with the
- 1:09:06work of Jesus Christ, we identify with that death and with that resurrection.
- 1:09:12And from there is where the new life is in Christ. So if we
- 1:09:15understand that our new life in Christ is contact with the Cross, on the
- 1:09:20Cross, through the Cross, the Cross has been an element that for centuries,
- 1:09:25for the Greeks, the barbarians, the Romans, in a place of
- 1:09:28cruelty, of reproach, of contempt for the Jews, even cursed, when
- 1:09:33Jesus is on the Cross, has made it the symbol of hope the Cross.
- 1:09:40The human being who has fallen on the Cross has been able to have
- 1:09:44forgiveness for his sins, salvation, justification, redemption, and has been able
- 1:09:49to have expation and reconciliation with God. And if there is a transformative message
- 1:09:53of the peoples. It is the message of the cross, which breaks down
- 1:09:57all ethnic barriers, that what you use all even denominational barriers, which separates
- 1:10:02everything that can separate us. When we get to the Cross, that'
- 1:10:08s where we meet. That' s one of my big fights. My
- 1:10:11struggle is not focused today on what separates us. My struggle is focused on
- 1:10:15what unites us. And I believe that the element of the cross is the
- 1:10:19key for there to be a people and Jesus, and by this they will
- 1:10:23know that you are my disciples and their hamas to one another. And it
- 1:10:25is precisely in this Union with Christ, through the resurrection death of Jesus,
- 1:10:29that we can project a different Christianity. It is a super simple book of
- 1:10:36devotional character and with some brief theological explanations of the grandeur of the Cross,
- 1:10:43simply because it does not reach a particle of sand on the immense beaches of
- 1:10:46the depth of the Cross. How interesting, well, what wealth, how
- 1:10:51many things not. And we can see from the history of a people,
- 1:10:57from a people as dear to many of us as the Gypsy people in general,
- 1:11:02and not also that immense number of believers, of faithful evangelical Christians who
- 1:11:10are that immigration from popular Catholic religiosity to a biblical evangelical Christianity and also to
- 1:11:20a whole series of expressions that go more into the vein of the Gypsy people.
- 1:11:27Also then and then all the historical avatars that are many, there are
- 1:11:33countless then we will also talk to other friends, also gypsy writers, writers
- 1:11:41who will give us even more data to make a bet to the day on
- 1:11:45this important topic. José Carmona, the Truth, dear Saint Joseph Carmona Santiago,
- 1:11:51dear friend, the truth and brother God, we will see you shortly,
- 1:11:57for I send you a very affectionate embrace. Thank you so much for
- 1:12:01the opportunity and thanks for the beautiful work that makes us visible the work that
- 1:12:06the evangelical people put us in value in front of society. God honor you
- 1:12:11and God bless you. Thanks a lot, buddy. Until always you on
- 1:12:30the train of life life. Today I want to introduce you to an incomparable
- 1:12:45lord. I give you a view, but for your life to change who
- 1:12:53walks over the sea. We' re blind already I present Jesus to you.
- 1:13:05I' ll make you walk ahead of stare watch you walk in front
- 1:13:15of me. If it weren' t for Jesus, I wouldn' t
- 1:13:19be there, but walk in front of my face of You, look in
- 1:13:29front of me, son, one last chance, that is, that you
- 1:13:36have at your disposal walk and let yourself embrace Dome be a coward that he
- 1:13:45died for you in the cru and shed all his blood for forgiveness of your
- 1:13:50sins. Jesus, don' t stop me. Walk forward, look great
- 1:14:00at me walking on the side of me, the walk looks ahead of me.
- 1:14:04If it wasn' t for Jesus, I dream already and hope that
- 1:14:11he walks before me the look walks The camera of Aia of You, my
- 1:14:16camera looks ahead of me. Well, well, Mr Hallelujah, but my
- 1:14:34mother. I don' t want to scratch this, nor do I want
- 1:14:40the money. I prepare your face- to- face. I come to
- 1:14:44heaven. This look ahead of this look forward look look vintage look, look
- 1:14:51forward to me before you walk look forward or become holy compare r or not.
- 1:15:17No. I' m sure, but I' m not sure.
- 1:15:23But the Traffic and Road Safety Act has changed. We changed the rules,
- 1:15:30because the way we moved has also changed. So, now, if you
- 1:15:34' re not wearing your belt, you can lose four points, new times,
- 1:15:40new rules. Directorate- General for Traffic, Ministry of the Interior,
- 1:15:44Government of Spain. And never leave me alone in the tub or places with
- 1:15:46water. Don' t let them emit luis fingers are a hinchufi. Don
- 1:15:49' t leave me in the face of an open window. You tell her
- 1:15:53within reach of tissue substances or a thousand paths. You tell him to swallow
- 1:15:58me the small pieces of If you neglect, your eyeball can be dangerous for
- 1:16:02your children. Don' t worry, avoid accidents. For what you want
- 1:16:05most Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs a Government of Spain. Juan invests 180
- 1:16:11euros a month in suffering. Alberto invests 200 euros in extortion. Carlos invests
- 1:16:16150 euros in kidnappings. Every time you pay you' re investing in mobs,
- 1:16:21extortion, harassment, help them out, don' t invest in suffering
- 1:16:27against trafficking in women. Be aware, Government of Spain, you travel on
- 1:16:33the train of life. Or ladies and gentlemen, well, I have the
- 1:17:05pleasure and I believe the honor of interviewing our friend Cfora Vargas. Sefora Vargas
- 1:17:15is a lawyer, also a writer, a good writer. Besides, I
- 1:17:19' m pleased when you look when you write and I don' t know
- 1:17:24if you' re good or not so good, because you skip not and
- 1:17:29say good is a writer or writer. But when he' s a good
- 1:17:30writer, we underline him. This is the case of Sefora Vargas, who
- 1:17:34has several publications on the emancipation of women and particularly of women in general,
- 1:17:41and of the gypsy woman, who she also represents very dignifiedly. Not good,
- 1:17:45because she is a defender of women' s rights, also on this
- 1:17:51Thursday, practically this day eight that we are celebrating just these days, which
- 1:18:00is International Working Women' s Day, on 8 March always this week.
- 1:18:10Well, today we talk to Sefora Vargas about a book, a second book
- 1:18:15that is the history of the Gypsy people. For Dumis, this is an
- 1:18:23addition to the survival of silenced heroes. It is an interesting book, historical,
- 1:18:31rigorous, dramatic, descriptive, but also that in some way vindicates the
- 1:18:40figure of the citizen or gypsy, of the man and the woman, of
- 1:18:44the young, of the child, of the gypsy, which is, a
- 1:18:50good measure, already inserted in society. But there is still obscure in the
- 1:18:55social sphere about the stigma of the gypsy. So, well, I think
- 1:19:00that this contribution is very interesting, as we have seen with other authors,
- 1:19:06also very affectionate gypsies, like my dear friend José Carmona, doctor in psychology,
- 1:19:13or Antonio Carmona also theologian and doctor in theology, etcetera. No and
- 1:19:18that we have been able to talk about these things, because I want to
- 1:19:24welcome Séfora Vargas, ladies and gentlemen, good morning, Séfora Hello, good
- 1:19:29morning, how are you? Everything. Thank you so much for the invitation.
- 1:19:32It' s a pleasure to be able to hear you Séphora, how
- 1:19:36are you? From Andalusia, from Seville, we don' t talk,
- 1:19:40yes, I' m from Seville. I live here and well, everything
- 1:19:44' s great. The truth is, it' s time I did a
- 1:19:47lot of work, because it actually makes me a woman. It is international
- 1:19:49of women and with motifs of the 8th day, because they are celebrated and
- 1:19:55they are carried out a lot of faction throughout the whole of the Then there
- 1:20:00is already a little drop go on the 8th day because I am already flanking
- 1:20:02energy. Yeah, all right, thank God. I have seen you announced
- 1:20:06at some public conferences on Working Women' s Day about International Women' s
- 1:20:13Day, International Women' s Day, and I have seen that you are
- 1:20:17already giving lectures. And, well, how good, how nice that you
- 1:20:24can so dignify the emancipation of women, of women oppressed by their rights.
- 1:20:31Of course, I know outside the theme of the history of the Gypsy people
- 1:20:42for dumis the survival of some Sidential heroes. This is a book that claims
- 1:20:48in a loud way the reintegration to all the effects of the city or gypsy,
- 1:20:57of the city of Agita. Right, well, the history of the
- 1:21:00Agitan people for dance. It pretends to be, and seems to be,
- 1:21:04thank God that I have managed to do an exhautive study of law and comparative
- 1:21:13victory that encompasses not only the history of Spain, which we also have magnificent
- 1:21:17historians and people who have contributed to the discovery and the contribution of the history
- 1:21:21of the Gypsy people. I don' t eat e- e- e
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- 1:21:26e- e. Manuel Martínez Martínez, in fact, is my Prologosist a
- 1:21:29pride to me that he has been and a great friend. But what I
- 1:21:34intended was to bring history closer to people. Why, because history is often
- 1:21:41written in such a technical way, so rigorous, so difficult that so difficult
- 1:21:45to access, because not everyone has the ability to understand a legal slang.
- 1:21:50I hear historiographical, as are the history books and it was necessary to create
- 1:21:57an easy book, accessible, but at the same time intense discouragement, where
- 1:22:01you would leave the national territory and where you could compare what happened, for
- 1:22:06example, in the United States, how did the gypsies arrive in the United
- 1:22:11States, what has been the treatment in much of all the countries of Europe,
- 1:22:15how has the treatment been in the United Kingdom? To tell unusual facts
- 1:22:19that are not yet known about the Second World War and the Nazi gypsy holocaust,
- 1:22:25which there are many people who still do not know, that three quarters
- 1:22:29of the Roma population in Europe died and were so many rights silenced, so
- 1:22:39many historical events so important that, moreover, not only have been hidden,
- 1:22:44but, moreover, they have almost always been counted by people who are not
- 1:22:46gypsy. And thank God that at the time they were able to get the
- 1:22:50story out of that hidden intraictoria, but the identity component of ours was missing,
- 1:22:58there was a need for a titan voice with a jar. How did
- 1:23:00these persecutions affect us, those prasmatics, for example, how is the case
- 1:23:04here in Spain? Not how we lost our tongue, why our ancestor often
- 1:23:13joked, does not tell the anecdote many times of a uncle of mine who
- 1:23:16told me to you I go through all ears and my brother and I hid
- 1:23:19terrified and covered our ears and we ran to hide. And then I discovered
- 1:23:26later that the cutting of the ears was practiced as reoffending symbols for all those
- 1:23:31Africans who had contravened the plasmas. Then we had to unite history, comparative
- 1:23:41history and, in addition, the identity component of how it impacted, of
- 1:23:45how we feel and how we live gypsy culture. And those stages of assimilation,
- 1:23:49which is why and that is African victory. Then I already have people
- 1:23:56who have criticized me for being paranoid in my intention to include the term for
- 1:24:04Damis was more than anything for making a book that was sensitive, that was
- 1:24:09easy, that was counted from an easy perspective, that was not complex.
- 1:24:15However, I already have a good person, I have yesterday and I received
- 1:24:20a beautiful message, a criticism from a law professor of my faculty who has
- 1:24:26read the book and tells me that the book involves a research work so great
- 1:24:31that it deserves them to include the term dance and the truth that touched me.
- 1:24:40Then I' m happy with the work you' re doing. Yeah.
- 1:24:43Yeah, yeah, well, I think it' s very interesting story
- 1:24:45of the Gypsy pole for Damis the survival of some silent publishing heroes. Remember
- 1:24:51us, he doesn' t have an editorial. Julio I have the custom,
- 1:24:56the wonderful habit of avoiding with today I had to tell a video explaining
- 1:25:02why. Yes, yes, and he explained why briefly, because in the
- 1:25:06first book I had criticisms of some publishers who had the boldness of not allowing
- 1:25:14the cover of the first book to be the one it was. Te.
- 1:25:16I appeared with my hands tied with a rope in a defensive position. No
- 1:25:21and I knew perfectly well that this image of the book had to be the
- 1:25:26cover, because that' s how we have felt most women throughout history and
- 1:25:29especially in the Thescana. And then they also wanted to correct me in how
- 1:25:35I counted some very important parts, such as the bathroom test. I count
- 1:25:40it with incredible respect, both for those who want to continue practicing it and
- 1:25:44people who do not want to do it. And they wanted to change my
- 1:25:49narrative. And, finally, they also wanted to forbid me from making presentations
- 1:25:57in humble neighborhoods or neighborhoods of social exclusion, because I said that for a
- 1:26:02Nobel writer that took away. Perfu then literally sent them for a walk and
- 1:26:06I told myself that in my work I commanded that no one knows more than
- 1:26:11I of what I have lived, suffered or worked, that I can affect
- 1:26:15orthotypeographic corrections and all the collections I want with respect to narrative, but not
- 1:26:20to what I tell neither as I tell it, let alone to the cover.
- 1:26:24And I already took the thing submerged because it was great, because besides,
- 1:26:27that way I could reach other continents. In the United States I have
- 1:26:31many followers who buy me, who read me university professors and I have stayed
- 1:26:36away with love. Yeah, yeah, well, perfect, perfect. Look.
- 1:26:43I have to publish some books and I am thinking about Amazon more than
- 1:26:46anything else, because I also want to be independent, I want to be
- 1:26:54myself too and I think I subscribe to that statement look at the book The
- 1:27:00History of the Gypsy People. For Dumis, the survival of non- silent
- 1:27:03beings is an accessible work, easy to understand, but with an overwhelming intensity,
- 1:27:09as was being said, because historically, society has maintained a vision of
- 1:27:14the impoverished, perverse and linked gypsy pole of crime, for having concealed the
- 1:27:18atrocities carried out on them, as it was, for example, slavery,
- 1:27:24forced settlement, mass deportations, torture and degrading treatment, mutilations punishments of public
- 1:27:30shame, exemplary punishments, drownings, hangings, shootings, attempts at biological exterminations,
- 1:27:38genocides and crimes against humanity, massive deteriorations, as was the case.
- 1:27:45Also from the Nazi genocide with the Gypsies there were many medical experiments, retreaded
- 1:27:51from the custody of their children, erased and lost and identity is overwhelming.
- 1:27:57Then the group work is total. Your life' s work with the real
- 1:28:01facts of a surviving Nazi family. I like it a lot in the first
- 1:28:08good, in the introduction you talk about that about this person you knew about,
- 1:28:15tell us a little bit about this case of the family survivor who had
- 1:28:19survived the concentration camp. Yeah, he wants me to tell the story a
- 1:28:24little bit so people can come in, mouth to buy the book that needs
- 1:28:26to be done. This book is a book you have to have, you
- 1:28:29have to buy it and go back to it several times. It' s
- 1:28:31a hist ear. Thank you very much, Julio Mira, it' s
- 1:28:35a hard story to tell. What happens is that I made a step with
- 1:28:39that older man, with that gypsy, with the respect that we would tell
- 1:28:42him in due course. But I' ve silenced her since the year two
- 1:28:45thousand eight, which was when I met him. I was working in an
- 1:28:48entity and suddenly no child, a group of very tall gypsies, very good
- 1:28:55plant, apri helps us. He needed to be a medicine for his father,
- 1:29:00because the father was diabetic and did not sell him medicines without prescription.
- 1:29:09Respectfully. Then it caught my attention because they were nomadic gypsies and wanderers.
- 1:29:17They were still living in caravans and I was the first holdings they had with
- 1:29:25European gypsies at those levels. Not then did I pick up the phone,
- 1:29:29we helped him and in the afternoon they had also told me that their ladies
- 1:29:33had not allowed her to enter the shops of the Center of Seville because they
- 1:29:38are seen leagues that were gypsy and because there are racism and classism that there
- 1:29:43are many times in the big capitals, because they could not buy the summer
- 1:29:46shoes that they needed. So, I, at the time, was an
- 1:29:49entrepreneur, had shoe stores, apart from working in that entity, and I
- 1:29:56carried two boxes of two pairs of slippers and the real ones, the beautiful
- 1:30:01esparto dagger shoes. He tells them in gratitude, for he came out of
- 1:30:05the old man, just the one who needed that recipe and invited me to
- 1:30:10his house, to his caravan and well, he served us an exquisite tea,
- 1:30:15a t with fruit in between with strawberries that I in life had tasted
- 1:30:19with dried fruit when I was in that caravan. I was given the beautiful
- 1:30:21knitting, because it is as if I had this first brutal encounter with the
- 1:30:28oldest of our identity, because, as the Spanish gypsy people lost their identity
- 1:30:32almost at all levels, one of them, because that element of movement did
- 1:30:36not force us to strengthen ourselves, to leave our trades. When I was
- 1:30:43there and I was hallucinating and many times I got lost even in the course
- 1:30:49of his conversation, there were things that didn' t pay attention to him,
- 1:30:54until, suddenly, in an older gypsy he was very magno, very
- 1:30:58bad, very bad. I don' t know what I had. I
- 1:31:00wouldn' t be around the' 90s or' 90s. So much was
- 1:31:03very old. I can' t say age. A man is very revered
- 1:31:08as an impressive shiner like wrinkles and scars in the soul that it was noticed,
- 1:31:14not and suddenly he discovers his arm, lifts it up and teaches me
- 1:31:17a tattooed triangle and a number like a blade forward. Then I knew what
- 1:31:28I was at the time. My body was cut off, we had tears
- 1:31:32sitting down and the man daughter told me you were studying, because there to
- 1:31:38David I was studying straight. I' m going to tell you a story
- 1:31:44that no one knows and I hope that someday you' ll tell it very
- 1:31:49briefly, the man told me how he could escape a concentration camp. He
- 1:31:54didn' t even give me the pis field data. It was not able
- 1:31:58to say what or audio, because when I was late I had completely lost
- 1:32:01the notion of the time of life. It was a killing machine here.
- 1:32:04The older man and the man, in an oversight by the guards who were
- 1:32:13guarding the barracks of the gypsy family, said that he took advantage of a
- 1:32:18hole that they had barbed because nights earlier an African lady had tried to escape
- 1:32:24and logically had amplified her and had beaten her to death. And then they
- 1:32:29had taken advantage of that barbed wire and had a triple barbed wire that I
- 1:32:32had managed to make. The hole in the three barbed wires caught his own,
- 1:32:36whom he could, including a little boy or I little ones he had
- 1:32:42and ran away. They ran out through the woods. Then neither his health,
- 1:32:48nor his shoes, nor his clothes, nor anything was nourished. You
- 1:32:55know what the bodies of the camp prisoners were like. No points to imagine
- 1:33:00the situation, how those children were and in that flight, in that terrifying
- 1:33:08stampede, because the man told you and I couldn' t stop crying.
- 1:33:13As they ran, ran and ran, they began to listen to the fields
- 1:33:16forgiveness, to the dogs that had already given the alarm voice, they had
- 1:33:21already put in the siren. They were focusing the forest so that the vecences
- 1:33:28would be behind them and they could locate him, capture him and bring us
- 1:33:31back to the field. They contemplate in the midst of that agonic flight,
- 1:33:38his son, little boy, falls and he thinks he broke his leg because
- 1:33:43of the deformity he had. Then I didn' t stop crying. He
- 1:33:46panicked at the barking of the hills, at the sound of the mermaid,
- 1:33:53at the panic of everything he was living, and that child couldn' t
- 1:33:58get over the crying or even the pain. Then they kept getting closer to
- 1:34:00the dogs, sometimes they had closer. They reached a river and supposedly just
- 1:34:06behind the river, they were already entering the border with another country where they
- 1:34:10could no longer be perceived. And one didn' t even know what country
- 1:34:15it was, what a fool it was, what a river it was.
- 1:34:16Nothing, not a completely traumatised mexico memory. When they arrived at the river
- 1:34:24he said that the dogs were already at Cosner' s points, they were
- 1:34:27very close. Then the father has to make a choice between life and death,
- 1:34:31between choosing to save fifteen people and the rest of his family or not
- 1:34:39doing in any way the crying in his man took his child' s head,
- 1:34:43put it under the water, rustled the river if they were not wide
- 1:34:48and when they reached the other line, logically they already arrived at a situation
- 1:34:56where they were safe. They tried the animal. Not a chance. It
- 1:35:01' s hard for me to tell it, because having to sacrifice your own
- 1:35:08child to save all your family is terrible. Then I' d had a
- 1:35:15lot of years with those points and that was in my head, but I
- 1:35:19had promised him final. I' ll tell you about it sometime. And
- 1:35:24so it is, when I saw the moral obligation to make a book where
- 1:35:30everyone recongests the maximum that had come to give my information, it does not
- 1:35:34forgive here in emotions. But as an activist, as a lawyer, as
- 1:35:42a professional, I have accumulated not only thousands of experiences of these twenty-
- 1:35:46four or twenty- five years of activism, but of knowledge of everything one
- 1:35:50has to study and investigate in order to face your profession. Not then was
- 1:35:53it time for all of us to be counted together, not only the part
- 1:35:58that the distoriators count, but our memory, the memory to nieica, the
- 1:36:03memories, the importance of our religious rituals or even in funerary, the importance
- 1:36:11of the Marine system, the importance of those survival strategies. This man was
- 1:36:15a hero, but at the same time very much for his own son.
- 1:36:19Or it is terrible the sacrifice that in some moments has had to face the
- 1:36:24people of Agrican to put on me but harder of everything up to it.
- 1:36:28Until the eighties and twos the cap was never recognized of making me what story
- 1:36:35excited me against injustices. We must fight at all costs of whatever it takes.
- 1:36:47Not Jesus was the most just man in human history, but he also
- 1:36:54tells us that blessed are the peacemakers and those who do justice. I like
- 1:37:01it very much in the first chapter, our destiny can only be changed if
- 1:37:06we allow ourselves to imagine a different one. This word, this phrase is
- 1:37:12precious, makes us dream of the possibility of true change. You have to
- 1:37:18dream if you don' t, you dream, if you don' t
- 1:37:23have the ability to change your reality, to imagine what your life would be
- 1:37:28if it could be or give to do you never do. You need to
- 1:37:32see visions have dreams. I, when I was a child, was unthinkable
- 1:37:39many things, but I was always sleepy. I had the magnificent opportunity and
- 1:37:44luck that I was born in a Christian, that my father would say Christian
- 1:37:48and gypsies and allow me a lot, but there were things that were unthinkable,
- 1:37:53even to me. And that exercise of overcoming and believing in your own
- 1:37:58are and never sell your identity, neither your values nor your beliefs. I
- 1:38:02really do make books and then the title of that book is a little wink.
- 1:38:08To this must be believed in another opportunity and emphatic or introduce the need
- 1:38:15of the Gypsy people. Not that that' s going to be that article
- 1:38:21of rewriting our own story. It is not enough there, because we are
- 1:38:26known, because as the critical qualifying arguments adjectives that give upon us throughout the
- 1:38:31history of literature, as ruffians, the dirty, vag a thief, a
- 1:38:38trapper. Well we have even been accused that we were the ones who forged
- 1:38:44the nails and chrysso imagine, there is no legend of all colors. Then
- 1:38:50we had to take that visionist look, raise up, not dignify our position
- 1:39:00and create our own vision of who it is and why we have given this
- 1:39:05suffering and made it professed an assimilation. How many things there are in this
- 1:39:12book and what you are saying comes out of the heart, but also from
- 1:39:15the truth, from the social truth, from the anatemization of the gypsy,
- 1:39:21much more in the past and in the present. Some stereotypes still need to
- 1:39:28be overcome that are socially entangled by saying gypsies. So it is and clear
- 1:39:38when we discover good people, there are many you are, you séphora,
- 1:39:43it is, josé is or there is a list of gypsy intellectuals who contribute
- 1:39:51and who, besides, claim not only the gypsy culture, but the reintegration
- 1:40:00into the social consciousness of the gypsy as a singular citizen, but as others
- 1:40:06are and as others are. In one of the chapters, when you say
- 1:40:11claudicate or die page in these three chapters, in bold, you say I
- 1:40:15pick up the Spanish stage in a very close and experiential way. Hence the
- 1:40:17term for Damis, because I am not only interested in exalting the two hundred
- 1:40:23and fifty gypsy legal provisions that were promulgated, but also, transfer to the
- 1:40:28reader, the experiences of the persecuted, the suffering of these families. Therefore,
- 1:40:30they are told by genetic memory, by the knowledge it has transmitted to
- 1:40:35us, with its community silences and traumas and adapted with all the rigor of
- 1:40:42the scientific method and gypsy historiography. So here we are already a little bit
- 1:40:47on specific cases. No, I don' t. What I do is
- 1:40:56it' s safe. A family. It is a family, the family
- 1:40:59of the Eye, with all its children, its characters, the wife of
- 1:41:05Juan Dolores is not the emblematic name Dolores suffering and in those fictional characters.
- 1:41:14Actually, what it does is I cover what really happened to all the gypsy
- 1:41:18families. There comes this context of historical professor, of assimilations, of anti
- 1:41:25- gypsy laws. I' ve heard and I' ve been told hundreds
- 1:41:31of my anecdote about taking three oranges from the Civil Guard. At the time
- 1:41:36there were battles and we all know that the righteous are not even condemnable to
- 1:41:43Mexico. In other words, care must be taken, but the presumption of
- 1:41:45innocence has always been violated with the gypsy. So, all those experiences of
- 1:41:53persecutions, those events that have told me, I have introduced it, not
- 1:41:58only by telling what they achieved, for example, the first pragmatic Catholic challenge,
- 1:42:02which was the great raid, is the first attempt at a cbiological genocide,
- 1:42:08where they separated us men from women so that we would not own them,
- 1:42:12so that they would be extinguished. I tell you how far I'
- 1:42:20ve been able to find out by investigating and interviewing skilled personnel A tidad is
- 1:42:28the sum of all of their memories is the sum of those experiences. That
- 1:42:30' s why I pick up appearance is as important as fighting, burials.
- 1:42:35He respects the deceased. It' s not a history book, it'
- 1:42:40s just a lot more. That' s it. It is not the
- 1:42:42mixture of history, culture, experience, lithic memory. I explain what critical
- 1:42:48memory and trauma is. It is very important, the community traumas, because
- 1:42:56after the great raid there is a generational silence, a silence so great that,
- 1:43:02in reality, the majority of the gypsy people do not even know that
- 1:43:06it was the great tida. Our mothers arrived for a moment, our great
- 1:43:11- grandmothers who stopped telling us the horrors. There are things that haven'
- 1:43:15t even cost her. They' ve never told us what the big raid
- 1:43:18was. They told you one percent. They were rapping us, punishing us,
- 1:43:24beating us, but they didn' t tell you what they were separated
- 1:43:29from their husbands. There is a silence there, a silence scientifically demonstrated.
- 1:43:32No, we don' t have access to them. And then, after
- 1:43:36all my research, he came to the conclusion that if there is, for
- 1:43:43example, the Lise syndrome that develops Atrin, seven stages, which is the
- 1:43:47one that occurs when an immigrant person leaves his country, comes in pasture,
- 1:43:54suffers what I drink from crossing the sea and then tries to adapt to a
- 1:43:59culture that is not his own. Yes, yes, that is justified,
- 1:44:02studied and has a name. How is it possible that the flight is suffering
- 1:44:08six hundred years, for example, in Spain, practically of discrimination up to
- 1:44:13one thousand nine hundred seventy- eight, which was proclaimed the Constitution and entered
- 1:44:16the process of democracy. How is it possible that no one has studied the
- 1:44:19gican people since repective, from the social, community, intergnidational traumas, what
- 1:44:27consequence that has had No one naga with teaching it. Then there are questions
- 1:44:32and approaches that I even name the theories that no one had done, the
- 1:44:38theory of shutting up for love. Our mothers let us teach our own self,
- 1:44:43because if we talked about it, we were worried or could kill.
- 1:44:46And that' s it. We talk about trauma, whether it' s
- 1:44:50the theory of shutting up for love, we also talk about the secret,
- 1:44:56the grammar, the secret of not saying what the gypsy, the secret genes
- 1:45:01the secret gene. Then it' s very complete. The book doesn'
- 1:45:09t just tell you about historical events. It is interwoven between anecdotes like the
- 1:45:15one you have told us about experiences or you make a simulation of a family
- 1:45:23scene, like the one you told us. The latter that identifies identify Let
- 1:45:30' s say the social paradigm of the Gypsies in general, seen from the
- 1:45:34outside and how they did not live, not and how they did not live.
- 1:45:38For example, I didn' t just want to see July to read
- 1:45:43the history of the Gypsy people. In Spain there are hundreds of books,
- 1:45:46there are many and some very good, but for you to know how they
- 1:45:50lived, how they felt, they had to be described by a gypsy person
- 1:45:58and then how they ate, what they did to eat, how they got
- 1:46:00up in the morning, what you were going through. One of them died
- 1:46:02where I found him. What happened when he wasn' t allowed to make
- 1:46:06a deal. What happened when they were already prevented from making a living?
- 1:46:14This is the part that I do. What I do is that one has
- 1:46:16already done so the reader automatically in what it does is that empatist commented without
- 1:46:23much in history gets in to such an extent that in the end I suffer
- 1:46:28a lot because I have people and they have already told me about it.
- 1:46:32I think there have been ten people who have told me that the book cannot
- 1:46:36read it received, that there is already a part of the book where they
- 1:46:43suffer so much that it causes anxiety and that they have to stop reading about,
- 1:46:48two or three days and then take them back from the intensity it has.
- 1:46:54Yes, it is a very intense book, but it is intertwined with
- 1:46:59these anecdotes that are very descriptive and also the stories, for example, the
- 1:47:05gypsies in the Americas, brief study on slavery in general and especially the slavery
- 1:47:12of the gypsies in Romania, the chronology of exhaustive persecution and much more.
- 1:47:18The geometry of hatred, the Nazi horror in the fields and many things derived
- 1:47:24from them gitated them in England and Scotland and many more. Survival strategies,
- 1:47:29the theory of shutting up for love and the power of the verb. There
- 1:47:33is, for example, gypsy engineering. It' s also another very interesting
- 1:47:40thing you describe here in this book. True yes, I love giving names
- 1:47:53to things that society had not named. Gypsy engineering is the ability, resilience,
- 1:48:00the ingenuity that a gican people have had to power over it. That
- 1:48:05' s what I had to put my name on. They are social engineers,
- 1:48:10of great intentions, of supervisory strategies and there is bread from tricks to
- 1:48:17be able to sell a lame horse, as it was to prick an intention
- 1:48:26of I do not remember what it was now. I don' t think
- 1:48:29I remember now my memory fails, but I' ve got it pointed out
- 1:48:32for him to leave. It was like a relaxing pocular, to lengthen his
- 1:48:35leg and hide the coast from those tricks that today I could say that'
- 1:48:42s an escape, it' s a hidden vice. The moment has been
- 1:48:46sold in the midst of that oppression and persecution. If what they had in
- 1:48:51a lame burrito or they had to sell it you know, then it goes
- 1:48:57from those survival strategies to great intentions of knowing the breasts of nature, of
- 1:49:04how to know the time, depending on the flowers, of how to be
- 1:49:11able to deduce the time they incline the theriological, depending on how the flowers
- 1:49:15were opened or created, of how they left silueles when there was neither the
- 1:49:21phone nor the whatsapp to be able to communicate with other relatives of theirs who
- 1:49:27came after them. So they' re such nice things that I' ve
- 1:49:31been able to investigate, and I' ve been able to scratch every place
- 1:49:36that was worth putting together the clears. And there are also survival strategies that
- 1:49:40are very hard I speak it, to the rest I speak from my family
- 1:49:44' s team. There were people who had to change their surname to avoid
- 1:49:50persecution and tense ones. There are people who have had to live who were
- 1:49:58titans in order to survive people, for example, in the UK, who
- 1:50:02there, specifically the Gypsies, were very dark when they arrived and called him
- 1:50:06the Christian. Also in order to change their appearance they began to mix with
- 1:50:13more blonde, whiter or dangerous women so that there would be mutations in the
- 1:50:17meth. Imagine to the point, to what extent the engineering of survival was
- 1:50:25set in motion to be able to face persecution and death is strong. And
- 1:50:31now he' s also invited that there are people and they tell me,
- 1:50:35but don' t tell me that. No, don' t count how
- 1:50:38I won' t tell if I have a commitment to absolute truth and to
- 1:50:42history, as I' m going to. For example, my grandfather,
- 1:50:45my father' s military diego, that he was if I gave you your
- 1:50:50day of words. Don' t see you. Yes, yes, it
- 1:50:56' s very strong. Yeah, yeah, yeah, look at that jutism.
- 1:51:00It changes them a lot gypsy that they had to do it, and
- 1:51:03not because they had an ideology from right to cream much less, but because
- 1:51:08it was the way to ally you on one side or another in order to
- 1:51:12survive, to protect. I can support their families with something exact another acquaintance
- 1:51:17that I put in my book as well. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,
- 1:51:19yeah, no, it' s not interesting. It' s just that
- 1:51:24well I' m going to remind our listeners that we' re talking to
- 1:51:30Vargas and look at history of the Gypsy people for Damis the survival of silenced
- 1:51:35heroes. Without a doubt they have been now many years ago, they have
- 1:51:40not, because we are talking to someone properly gypsy and we have talked and
- 1:51:45talked these days with several gypsy intellectuals who, besides they also have a confessional
- 1:51:53Christian worldview of life. In addition, this, then, also enriches one
- 1:51:59of the already practically last chapters, the brief topic consideration on gypsy identity,
- 1:52:03a chapter where the conventional parameters from where they have studied and considered us are
- 1:52:10broken and criticized. You tell us a break with anthropology, sociology and a
- 1:52:15critique of medicine for not having developed or studied the diseases that concern the Gypsy
- 1:52:20people specifically. This, this is big. Yeah, it' s strong.
- 1:52:28Yeah, somebody had to say it and it' s my turn.
- 1:52:31Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, yeah, let' s
- 1:52:35start with the first thing that' s been followed by anthropology. No,
- 1:52:40yeah, yeah, look, when I was six, I couldn' t
- 1:52:45find books referring to the history of the gypsy people. I asked my father,
- 1:52:50my good mother, who knows the right of the Gypsy people and always
- 1:52:55had the same answer. And that' s already been lost, but it
- 1:53:00' s worth nothing. If we' re still here in the hospital,
- 1:53:04there' ll be something. There was such a big void. He stopped
- 1:53:09to know. He made me do a lot of research, but until the
- 1:53:12eighties and sixs and eighty- seven eighty- eight there were no good publications
- 1:53:15on this. Then, a few years later, a prolification of publications and
- 1:53:23books begins that certain anthropologists with a very strong respect and consideration at national and
- 1:53:30international level. Where they pass that the identity to titana was practically unexcindable,
- 1:53:38of the marginality and of the poverty in Lafan. When I read that to
- 1:53:44me it' s a very decent I did, a rehearsal people. You
- 1:53:48can say that, because of the assimilation, the persecution, the historical and
- 1:53:56political processes, the suffering of war, the civil war, the persecution of
- 1:54:00the franc, the regime of the Second Republic, that the law that will
- 1:54:04catch thugs is not nourished by the frankness of the Second Republic. You can
- 1:54:11tell me that, based on all the legislation that has followed logically, there
- 1:54:15has not been an ostrafism and an enormous economic, critical and cultural delay and
- 1:54:23that is that fr can. But you cannot say that the identity of which
- 1:54:26the giants are inextensible from misery, because it is causality. It is the
- 1:54:32cause of that time that the book, that part, that specific chapter,
- 1:54:38is a criticism, but to the way in which we have been studied,
- 1:54:43to the approaches that have been made many cases without ricotor and moreover, we
- 1:54:46have been studied in a biased way on the one hand, anthropologists, on
- 1:54:50the other, sociologists by others, historians, doctors have not even paid attention
- 1:54:56to us. There are many important gretical flats that your friend gtana that because
- 1:55:01of this that our culture many times three montabou do not say, but I
- 1:55:06know cases where they have been born with three facts and that is very related
- 1:55:13also to problems of inbreeding to marry each other cousins brothers, cousins brothers very
- 1:55:18many, many problems of hormonals, desutism, women who have a lot of
- 1:55:25hairs, even men who have developed breast more than they have had to have
- 1:55:29surgery. It has not occurred to anyone to think that it is the result
- 1:55:34of many historical causes, it has had a direct impact on health, or
- 1:55:41that certain internal circumstances of culture, as in inbreeding, already by result a
- 1:55:45series of consequences, a series of diseases. So, the book is also
- 1:55:49a criticism of those lack of rigorousness, that lack of study and that lack
- 1:55:56of will to contend with a very interesting decr. It becomes essential as we
- 1:56:08talk to Sefora Vargas that to enter into matter, I advise our listeners of
- 1:56:14the train of life in so many Spanish cities to take this book from the
- 1:56:20platform also of Amazon. You are the author Acéfora Vargas, this dear lawyer
- 1:56:30and also a lecturer. The story of the Gypsy people for Damis and the
- 1:56:36survival of silenced heroes. One topic is the subtitle no, but very interesting
- 1:56:44to be up to date and find answers. I believe that social natermination of
- 1:56:50the gypsy. I believe we are in a process of change and social change.
- 1:56:58I mean. You' re asking me. I say I don'
- 1:57:03t think out loud. I am a little costy July, because, in
- 1:57:12my view, we have a regression in values, in rights and in the
- 1:57:17evolution of the pelostal. If society in general, we are suffering from the
- 1:57:27shame of bad political decisions of the covid crisis. After the Covid, the
- 1:57:30post Covid has changed the lives of many people and is changing the economic situation
- 1:57:35and has left many people in the Gypsy cube. There are other issues that
- 1:57:42affect him and especially the mutation. In my view, he could still have
- 1:57:49adapted. There are some weighty arguments I don' t want to discuss here.
- 1:57:58It is not going to be appropriate, but above all that is related
- 1:58:00to radicalist positions of the Bible and interpretations that are sometimes very delicate, that
- 1:58:08are very stopped and end up being behaviors are sometimes scavenging where they are re
- 1:58:13- invisibilizing and is re- dinnering progress, no longer just the silence of
- 1:58:18women. We are talking about progress, the ability to leave, the ability
- 1:58:25to work, the ability to work in other jobs, in other social roles.
- 1:58:30I believe that everything that evolved in the first moment with the Gospel,
- 1:58:33which was extraordinary because it helped many gypsies to get out of that situation of
- 1:58:39social exclusion, is today well sectioned by bad paintings. I was remembering your
- 1:58:45previous book than about the emancipation of women. Remember is the title called the
- 1:58:54price of freedom, which cost some gypsy women to be free. There'
- 1:59:00s two of them. This book can also be obtained by Amazon. Also
- 1:59:05Yes, the two books are in love with the appreciation of our friend'
- 1:59:10s freedom if it were vargas. It was dealt with there, Yes,
- 1:59:17it was about the she specific approach of women, as it is logical,
- 1:59:20although in this one I also do, because in this book I talk about
- 1:59:23the Marine system. The marine system is inspired by the system of the pure
- 1:59:28and unimpure, as it could in the Old Testament, in the Jewish seye
- 1:59:30of purity, impurity and woman. And how today, because we continue to
- 1:59:35be unconsciously affected by that scroll and continue to determine customs. But the Book
- 1:59:43of Enterprises of Freedom, my Strong Book, where you check the price that
- 1:59:47cost us that first generation of gypsy women break with social bites, we suffer
- 1:59:55trigeo, quadruple, description and create new gypsy identities, new values, a
- 2:00:02thing as simple as it is to show that studying as until you lose your
- 2:00:09identity as a gypsy gave us blood, sweat and tear. I remember going
- 2:00:15for the merchadin myself and many people criticized and looked at me badly. I
- 2:00:18remember and in pants and condemn myself and put in sin three quarters of the
- 2:00:24titan population and trousers front in our meshes that are put on. Now that
- 2:00:28they all mark it, then everything that has symbolized a self- determining and
- 2:00:35camera exercise on the xican woman is still a conviction. He' s still
- 2:00:42a danger. He' s a Christ of danger. Two days ago,
- 2:00:45I received attacks from angelic pastors, where she spoke to me as if I
- 2:00:51had been a vulgar feminist. You' re a vulgar feminist Look at the
- 2:00:58camentelable hour. Forgive ignorance is magnified and ignorance is very bad, ignorance of
- 2:01:04things, of the identity of people, of the reality of things. And
- 2:01:12of course, ignorance is very daring. And then, well, that is
- 2:01:16why these contemptuous attitudes are born and between us it happens not only in the
- 2:01:24Gypsy people, but in the Christian people in general. There is a lot
- 2:01:29of ignorance, a lot, but a magnified ignorance and you have to get
- 2:01:33out of that circle. Yes, yes, yes, yes, many times
- 2:01:36my own father, my brother, tells me, but don' t write
- 2:01:42anything, but let' s see. Forgive what my profession is, that
- 2:01:45all revolutions began by an act of rebellion, especially the laws, and are
- 2:01:49unjust or unconstitutional or contrary to human rights. They can' t be respected
- 2:01:58as simple as that is legitimate is the but of course, that' s
- 2:02:04easy to say, but you face it every day by saying woman and being
- 2:02:09gypsy, it can complicate the truth. Yeah, well, thank you,
- 2:02:12Jadeo. He' s been very brave. That forum has been very brave.
- 2:02:15If I congratulate you, thank you very much. I really do.
- 2:02:20Besides, you' re saying things of common sense and against humanity and besides,
- 2:02:29things that both inside and outside. We have to make a bet a
- 2:02:32day of this, of this kind of principles and, of course, the
- 2:02:38theme of your book is also very interesting. I think we' ll be
- 2:02:42able to enjoy it. You have to enjoy this book History of the Gypsy
- 2:02:45people for Damis the survival of silenced heroes and they have certainly been silenced.
- 2:02:51But not anymore, it' s not over anymore. You have to break
- 2:02:56the silence and leave varga. It' s being built. That' s
- 2:03:00it, so be out. The truth is that it has been a great
- 2:03:03pleasure to talk to you, listen to you, listen to your statements and
- 2:03:10listen to your heart, that this is what I like to hear better.
- 2:03:13Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, well, I just don' t
- 2:03:15know how to talk about another humanity that I' m honest with and always
- 2:03:20go straight ahead, despite the consequences, so I always tell the truth,
- 2:03:25not as doomed to tell the truth, but I wanted to thank you.
- 2:03:28Thank you for giving me a hole in your beautiful show. Thank you size
- 2:03:34visibility, the story that so concrete today in Mira and for doing this beautiful
- 2:03:39and wonderful interview with a lot of pleasure and an honor. He' s
- 2:03:44with you. Thank you very much, with pleasure, eager to greet you
- 2:03:47on one of my visits to Seville and see us there that I have so
- 2:03:51many friends, it will be a pleasure, an honor. Meet you in
- 2:03:55person, of course I do. Of course I do. This year it
- 2:03:58is planned that Go, for good, because until soon sephora, we speak
- 2:04:03again and God Median will continue to travel on the train of life. Likewise,
- 2:04:09yes, goodbye, many blessings. Bye bye Chaoy I have the decesity
- 2:04:54of my soul of Ramba. I want to brown your man oy. I
- 2:05:06want to stop the time locked in my room. I want to worship your
- 2:05:21man you are, and I want to break the jar that I keep for
- 2:05:42years and to branch it to your foot venerfomar your holy throne on my knees
- 2:06:14and chorado proclaim that love venguadorta love before you show amara, venguadorata loves before
- 2:06:45you, show him or I don' t want to ask you to walk
- 2:07:00away, I want to see you pour out the alarm, I want to
- 2:07:00see you a king, offer you a young man. To dedicate these words
- 2:07:08to you only. Oy want to promise me the fraspo that keeps durandaño and
- 2:07:25brother your smoke your throne holy dero say lady, proclaim you want to look
- 2:07:57venguara mana amara before it shows me bites me, mom, before showing mom,
- 2:08:26come guarate, mom before prostra? When they called my or beloved,
- 2:09:22we love me we anterior plama ma venguadora, loves before prostra until the one
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- 2:11:33an exciting journey along the routes of the heart, an unforgettable journey at
- 2:11:39the pace of clan train so much or, ladies and gentlemen, we continue
- 2:12:37on the train of life. Antonio, how are you, how are you
- 2:12:41doing out there, in your town, where are you exactly good? I
- 2:12:46' m in the palms of Grancanaria. I don' t know if I
- 2:12:48' m heard perfect now. Yeah, all right, good day, thank
- 2:12:52God. Yeah, a little frisket, but we' re going hot.
- 2:12:58All right, all right. Antonio, Antonio, Antonio Carmona, also graduated
- 2:13:05in Theology, Doctor in Divinities, magnificent writer. Where you know, we
- 2:13:11were talking to your cousin, José Carmona, about the subject we are talking
- 2:13:20about this morning about the whole Gypsy world and how you give him personality and
- 2:13:30also historical contributions to make a social pedagogy of what is the history of the
- 2:13:39Gypsy people in general and also the Gypsy world in Spain and their contributions and
- 2:13:46their real needs. So here we are this morning talking about this, but
- 2:13:54talking about your books. Precisely you have a book before the last that you
- 2:13:56have published Freedom for the Forgotten, what you wanted to do with this book,
- 2:14:01what you wanted to say what your message was. Well, this book
- 2:14:05was my master' s thesis in the know yes, and what I intended
- 2:14:11is to claim those forgotten ones that we have been the gypsies for a long
- 2:14:16time and from the theological point of view, for I have tried to make
- 2:14:22my pinitos, as it is usually said, because I have spoken of liberation
- 2:14:24theology. It was practically a people oppressed by the society we lived in and
- 2:14:31where we lived and had hopes. Our hope has been the word of God,
- 2:14:35the living Christ, which has been transformed into our hearts and that the
- 2:14:39Gypsy community is a community with great power, much, this is a church
- 2:14:46with great potential and good, today we can see it in the Church of
- 2:14:50Philadelphia and other Gypsy churches that have done extraordinary work in our country. Yeah,
- 2:14:56yeah, that' s exactly what we' re talking about. But
- 2:15:00you, speaking there of Christians, that is, of this world, of
- 2:15:05the forgotten, referred to marginality, truth freedom part of marginality, of course,
- 2:15:11from the point of view, well, what was a multidisciplinary study from
- 2:15:16an anthropological, philosophical, theological, historical point of view and also to know
- 2:15:24a little bit about the history of the Gypsy people and how we inserted ourselves
- 2:15:31in Spain. Yeah, well, this book is also available. You can
- 2:15:37get it on Amazon, right good. I think so, the book was
- 2:15:43distributed by scaffolding. Yes, and now possibly another publisher will edit it.
- 2:15:50I think it' ll be just a trust in this project. All right,
- 2:15:54very good perfect for those interested. And let' s talk about this
- 2:16:00last book, which is yours, before going on to give the review of
- 2:16:05this book, The Bible, from its beginnings to the translations in Spanish,
- 2:16:09spoken a little bit of you. Antonio Carmona, Heredia, graduated in Theology
- 2:16:16from the Martín Lutter King University of Nincaragua, graduated in Pastoral Theology from the
- 2:16:22Center for Biblical Research ciby also has a master' s degree in Theology from
- 2:16:28the same Center of Studies Knows in Tenerife, Spain, an honorary doctorate in
- 2:16:33Divinities and a bachelor' s degree in Theology from the Doctor wilds Hower Theological
- 2:16:41Seminary in Chile. You also have a degree in theology from the Universidad del
- 2:16:46Norte de España, seat of Burgos. Anyway, you' ve devoted yourself
- 2:16:50to matter in depth for many years. Bible and Truth Theology. Well,
- 2:16:56yeah, I really liked studying because I thought that one needed training. Well,
- 2:17:03I think it' s important to train, because it' s important
- 2:17:07to talk about the word, but with a formation, because if we don
- 2:17:13' t have training then the problems come and I think we need to be
- 2:17:16careful. And in addition, the Lord tells us in his word that we
- 2:17:18have to prepare ourselves. No, and now the forties or fifties are over.
- 2:17:24We are already in the year two thousand twenty- four and well,
- 2:17:28I' ve been preparing for some time now some long years. But we
- 2:17:33must prepare ourselves because we have to bear witness and reason for our faith.
- 2:17:39That' s right and you' ve collaborated on different literary projects, such
- 2:17:43as Clie' s Great Dictionary of the Psychopleric Bible, various journals of scientific
- 2:17:50and academic kracter of Jornald and also, well, the book we' re
- 2:17:56mentioning to you. Freedom for the forgotten, this gypsy theological perspective, which
- 2:18:01was also published by Editorial Mundo Bíblico and your book Now The Bible, from
- 2:18:05its beginnings to translations in Spanish, and you have also collaborated in You have
- 2:18:13made contributions in the Bible that Clie has recently published on the patristic contributions of
- 2:18:20the church' s parents. Also in this book you do a collaboration.
- 2:18:26Yeah, I' ve worked on four final articles, mostly related to my
- 2:18:31book. Talked a little bit about the text of Hebraico, the sextualient of
- 2:18:35the Vulgate and yet another subject, very interesting Antonio The Bible since its origins.
- 2:18:46This book has two distinct parts, as expressed in the subtitle, from
- 2:18:52its beginnings to Spanish translations. In the first part of dedicating the yes in
- 2:19:00the first pages, the first four chapters, and in them dealing with the
- 2:19:05questions of the formation of the Old Testament and the role of the Greek version,
- 2:19:11also of the Septuagint and the new Latin translation of the Old Testament by
- 2:19:16Jerome from the Hebrew. And in these pages you make some very interesting contributions
- 2:19:24towards a gross synthetic way, the Bible is a miracle book. If it
- 2:19:31' s a miracle book, right, I haven' t heard it.
- 2:19:33The Bible you believe that because of the avatars you have suffered, the Bible
- 2:19:37is a miracle book. Let us have it the way we really have it
- 2:19:43today. After so many centuries, the word of God in our hands is
- 2:19:48a story of salvation that God has wanted for His people with an insert that
- 2:19:54is to save His people from the sin of death and lead us to eternal
- 2:19:58life. Of course, that' s what I mean. But the processes
- 2:20:01that have occurred have passed. It has been unique and exclusive, that is,
- 2:20:07how it is formed from oral tradition to the written form where we have
- 2:20:13our Bibles today. This has been an incredible journey and, above all,
- 2:20:18of many circumstances, because the formation of the old one has been tremendous,
- 2:20:26how it has reached us the new one, how it has been reworking and
- 2:20:33writing all the concepts and purposes that we have today in the Christian world.
- 2:20:37And besides, it' s been something supernatural. I believe in the supernatural,
- 2:20:43because God is in the supernatural and this has been the great miracle the
- 2:20:48great miracle which is the word of God. We have already done it Carmen
- 2:20:52Christ, but now he has come, as the Epistle said to the Hebrews
- 2:20:56God, having spoken in many ways, in many ways, on these last
- 2:21:00day, he has spoken to us in the son and son in the written
- 2:21:03word we have today, and I believe that this is preeminent. Not before
- 2:21:09a society where he does not believe, because the issue of postmodernity and relativism
- 2:21:13has come a little. God' s Word serves constantly before a society that
- 2:21:20needs God and many people ask me well what you are the people who carry
- 2:21:26the book. We don' t just carry a book. We are living
- 2:21:33our Christian life, as that book says, which is the word of God,
- 2:21:37and I believe that is preeminent in the midst of us. Julio Antonio,
- 2:21:41the second part of your book The Bible from its beginnings, that there
- 2:21:46is a lot of material written to consult and enjoy in this work by Antonio
- 2:21:54Carmona, Heredia until translations in Spanish languages. The second part, by contrast,
- 2:22:01is much longer. It occupies two thirds of the book, from page
- 2:22:07ninety- nine to three hundred and thirty- one and focuses on the history
- 2:22:11of the Bible in Spain and first facing the arrival of Christianity, its texts,
- 2:22:18also original to the Iberian peninsula and also translations into the language of Cervantes.
- 2:22:26It' s all very important. How interesting is the story of the
- 2:22:31Bible in Spain? You can advance us a little bit to make a mouth
- 2:22:37so you can have books later. One of the first July chapters, I
- 2:22:41did not say, were introductory chapters and then reached the heart of the book,
- 2:22:48the epicenter of the book. We speak, for example, the text
- 2:22:52of the old one, the text of the new one. We' re
- 2:22:56talking about the sexualite, about her formation. We spoke practically the early Christians,
- 2:23:03the patristic theme of how the theme of the Bible is developed, and
- 2:23:07how they understood the subject of literature. Then we came practically to the Middle
- 2:23:11Ages and their romanced and subsequent Bibles. And then we conclude we enter the
- 2:23:16part that affects us most in the Christian evangelical world, which is the world
- 2:23:22of how the Bible enters Spain. This is his first moment and then the
- 2:23:26epoch of the sixteenth century unfolds, the humanism that enters Spain, from Juan
- 2:23:33de Valdés, how all humanism and humanist concepts are formed, the development of
- 2:23:39Cardinal Cisnero, the problem of the Bible, complutense polyglot, complutense, matritense,
- 2:23:48well, all the development and then we reach the great ones. The
- 2:23:54great problem of reform that also enters Spain. A lot of people say there
- 2:24:01were no reforms. Yes, there have been reforms, because there are Christians
- 2:24:05and there has been the blood of the martyrs who have persisted and among them,
- 2:24:09for example, we can see the whole problem in the convent of the
- 2:24:15Saint Jeromes to Casidoro de Reinas, to Citiano de Valera and others who leave
- 2:24:18there and then exile. And there they write the Bible, the Bible that
- 2:24:24we have, that we use the evangelical world, which is Queen Valera.
- 2:24:28And then, then, I also talk about Francisco, Encina, Pérez de
- 2:24:33Pineda, thus giving a space to some important issues that many people don'
- 2:24:41t even know about. July, but I have left a very interesting footer
- 2:24:46system so that people can expand, because, of course, to cover so
- 2:24:52many centuries we would have to make seven or eight books as minimums to write
- 2:24:58the history of the Bible, but I have left a lot of material so
- 2:25:03that they can enjoy it and then I continue. In this part I speak
- 2:25:07a chapter of the Bible, of the history of the Bible in America,
- 2:25:11Christopher Columbus in the courtesy Pizarro, important corporators who carried the word all that
- 2:25:18movement And of course, in that movement, here, in Spain, there
- 2:25:22was a problem. The Bible was forbidden to read in Spanish, it is
- 2:25:26not Latin, but in Spanish it was forbidden and the only one that had
- 2:25:33circulated at that time was the queen, that of Casidoro de Reina and then
- 2:25:37Cipiano de Valera. What it does is correct some things and it goes on
- 2:25:41And then, already, well, I talk a little bit about biblical society,
- 2:25:46the movement of biblical society back in the 20th century and what had happened
- 2:25:48in Francoism and the own translations that they have made of the Bible, that
- 2:25:56is, clearly, well, they are very interesting, especially in the 20th
- 2:26:01century. At the end of the 20th and 21st centuries, translations of the
- 2:26:09Bible have multiplied. There are all the most accurate discoloured versions, plus some
- 2:26:16that connect to the oldest manuscripts as far as possible. That' s why
- 2:26:22I told you that the Bible Anthony is I consider it the Miracle Book,
- 2:26:28because with so many avatars and the Bible was also preserved a lot. Many
- 2:26:33manuscripts of the Bible were preserved in the monasteries of friars, which preserved many
- 2:26:41of the true documents. Of course, I have elaborated the topic of the
- 2:26:48Middle Ages and there in Madrid, that there is an immense exhibition of manuscripts
- 2:26:54in the Escorial. I' ve picked up a lot of things and from
- 2:26:56other sides. Then of course, the relationship of knowledge. He went on
- 2:27:03his own to convents, monasteries and then to universities. That is the educational
- 2:27:09project that exists for the extension of knowledge. And there it will imply the
- 2:27:15word of God the Bible. Of course, of course, the Bible was
- 2:27:20not accessible to you, you say, of course only the clerical caste that
- 2:27:26studied Latin in seminaries and churches, was practiced in Latin Masses and Latin Readings,
- 2:27:33but of course there was no access to the people in the times.
- 2:27:37That' s why success. Not only Luther in Germany, his first translation
- 2:27:41into German, into popular German, but also in Spain, Queen’ s
- 2:27:50cassiodor make the Bible accessible to the people who were genoese. Neither the Catholic
- 2:27:56vulgate nor any of these bibles were of popular access. Good truth. There
- 2:28:03has always been the problem since Emperor Charles V came to stay in Yuste,
- 2:28:09because he cannot deal with the whole subject of the Luther. The problem that
- 2:28:13arises is that Philip II, his son, also does not let any Bible
- 2:28:18enter that is in Castellano, and less that of Protestants. Then not only
- 2:28:24maquí, but in the new world, as burning bibles. And how there
- 2:28:28is a whole contradiction to having Bibles in Castellano. It is only later when
- 2:28:35there is an encyclical of the Pope, much later, centuries later that it
- 2:28:39gives to the avenue to be able to translate. And in fact, in
- 2:28:41the forties, when the Abbot begins, the famous nacar Bible Colunga, which
- 2:28:46is a Bible that began to translate the Catholic Church into Spanish, comes out.
- 2:28:54It is necessary to recognize and beyond the deutorocanonics that the many Colunga nacars
- 2:29:01to the Jerusalem Bible. Several Catholic versions, the Bulgata are good translations of
- 2:29:09the Bible with the additions of those of the deutorocanonians, evidently appearing also in
- 2:29:16the Ajinta section. Right, the Torocanonians. Yes, yes, it appears
- 2:29:22in the sectional. The problem is we have. It is very practical that
- 2:29:26the problem of knowing Hebrew and Greek. A man makes a subcursor and does
- 2:29:31it, but the problem is to turn it into Spanish. The Spanish knowledge,
- 2:29:35the twists, the modisms, the form. There' s the question.
- 2:29:41For example, we have translations into Spanish, such as modern ones,
- 2:29:46such as the Pilgrim' s Bible or the new Spanish Bible or others that
- 2:29:50are more up- to- date, for example, from the Episcopal Offer,
- 2:29:56which are wonderful translations. But we also have, for example, the
- 2:29:58Biblical Society of the Word that has come out new. I remember, for
- 2:30:03example, from my friend Plutarconilla, from the Kingdom of ninety- five,
- 2:30:07who updated things to say, language every twenty years is related, renewed and
- 2:30:11translations are needed for the current world to be added to that kind of language.
- 2:30:18Yes, in fact, I am part of the Board of Directors of
- 2:30:20the Bible Society of Spain and well, we released the Bible of Queen Valera
- 2:30:26two thousand twenty. That review by Bible writers in depth, where terms that
- 2:30:33have been translated still take great care of the essences of grammar, because that
- 2:30:39the Bibleists are very rigorous in that, which is a very very very,
- 2:30:46very specialized plant on the subject, but terms like Jehovah, who was a
- 2:30:50man, who is the key name or Jehovah popularly in the old versions,
- 2:30:56the Lord says God then says that on a popular level. It is more
- 2:31:05because you realize that when the name of Jehovah was mentioned, not many years
- 2:31:09ago, people related us to Jehovah’ s Witnesses, telling them as if
- 2:31:13we were all, because they did a very popular job, they went through
- 2:31:18the floors, through the houses and although they were a minority that in their
- 2:31:22time grew quite, it seemed they were the owners. On the contrary,
- 2:31:31they adulterated the Bible text with the new tradition, the new translation into the
- 2:31:37new world, because Jehovah’ s Witnesses. They originally used Queen Valera until
- 2:31:41they had their own, their own translation. But, of course, Jehovah
- 2:31:46’ s name, which is God’ s name, be it understood that
- 2:31:50Jehovah already sees in Hebrew or the consonants who put on vowels to give them
- 2:31:54phonetics. But the matter, for Jehovah, Jehovah, is as if he
- 2:32:01had a bad press, the name of Jeova. Popularly not, but now,
- 2:32:07in the new version of the two thousand and twenty of biblical society,
- 2:32:11the term is God. The Lord said God said, and such that it
- 2:32:16is popularly understood. And other terms and other grammatical adjustments, prayers much better
- 2:32:24adapted to the grammatical mentality of contemporary, without losing the essences. And that
- 2:32:31' s very important. Not well, I recently read a book by an
- 2:32:37author named Thomas Rome. It is called The Invention of God, a wonderful
- 2:32:43book where it is studied thoroughly the name of Iabé No and of course it
- 2:32:48explains everything you have said about the subject of Jehovah’ s vowels at the
- 2:32:52end of a mistake by a man who copied. Well, that' s
- 2:32:58what happened. But the good thing about all these things, Julio, is
- 2:33:01that we now have knowledge and we have to go back to the path.
- 2:33:05Thus, correction is something precious, sometimes it hurts, but it produces its
- 2:33:11effect. No, and when we begin to talk about the verb being in
- 2:33:16Hebrew the famous Hayat, we understand what it is already sees and how,
- 2:33:20for example, in the text, practically when it speaks of exodus that it
- 2:33:26sees its people suffering that verb, it must be the almighty God of Abranda.
- 2:33:31Isa reveals in that flame of fire in the middle of the sauce,
- 2:33:35that that is very important. The great I am the great I am clear
- 2:33:41because the Jews to God the unprovoked. It will separate the Adona and the
- 2:33:50Lord. Okay. There are the names of God that appear in the scriptures
- 2:33:54themselves, the Salai, the Adonai and many names, but just like Jave
- 2:34:01and Jehovah. Of course to them it was the unprovoked because they, for
- 2:34:05them, had the name of God sacred and did not want to profane it
- 2:34:11in any way. To take the name of God in vain was at least
- 2:34:15a somewhat legalistic view, but it was their own fear, or not to
- 2:34:20say, or God' s terror that they had about these things. But
- 2:34:24it is good that we can have the Bible from its beginnings to translations with
- 2:34:31tongues, also in more recent versions. And that' s where he takes
- 2:34:37a tour. Our dear friend and brother Antonio Carmona Heredia. I' ve
- 2:34:43talked to you before about your previous book too. But how good that we
- 2:34:48can his previous work, freedom for the forgotten that has to do with the
- 2:34:54gypsy world, a vision, a gypsy theological perspective, also very interesting that
- 2:35:01there is some point more than you. You' d stand out from your
- 2:35:07book for our listeners to say good this book, let' s lay hands
- 2:35:13on him to be groggy, it seems true. Yeah, I think so.
- 2:35:16A hundred and two things, from the two books of mine, which
- 2:35:20I think are a contribution because writing for what is already written. I'
- 2:35:24m sure there are a lot of people better than me who write better than
- 2:35:28me Julio, but honestly, for example, the subject of freedom for the
- 2:35:33forgotten. It is important that many people know the Gypsy world, because they
- 2:35:37do not know it if we live here in Spain. We' re Spanish,
- 2:35:41but they don' t know much about our customs. In our form,
- 2:35:45in this book, at least, I try to make the history of
- 2:35:48the Gypsies known in a brief chapter and, above all, the weight of
- 2:35:52what it brings in a society, racism and xenophobia. The problem that brings
- 2:35:58us closer, as Manuel says, to elevating the other age, the one
- 2:36:01in front of me suffering and I believe that my people have suffered many,
- 2:36:07many racisms and many impediments so that they can reach many places and the other
- 2:36:15book. Yes, I would like to tell you that there is a thread
- 2:36:18in the book of the Bible and the drivers that you have to look deeply
- 2:36:26at this text of this book, because it has cost me a lot to
- 2:36:33gather so much data, but it is important with that one that there is
- 2:36:33a thread. The word of God remains forever and comes to pass from the
- 2:36:37avatars with a statement that is salvation. It is a story of salvation,
- 2:36:45and that Bible has cost a lot of blood, a lot of sweat,
- 2:36:50a lot of tears, and today many people do not value it. And
- 2:36:52it is important that we value the word of God. I was recently preaching
- 2:36:58at a place I was invited to and a brother was saying to see.
- 2:37:01Hey, you sent people up when you were gonna talk about the word.
- 2:37:05Of course, if God is present, if he had King Oes, there
- 2:37:09was another a president of the state, you would not rise as he passed
- 2:37:13by, for we will rise to give glory to the Lord. What I
- 2:37:16have tried with this book is to give the glory to the Lord knowing it
- 2:37:20is not the story and the avatars that have happened so that we have that
- 2:37:24precious book, which is the Bible, the word of God, because the
- 2:37:31truth is that I believe that many of our listeners are going to say we
- 2:37:35want to take advantage of this book, get it from the platform of amazon.
- 2:37:39Almost everything can be achieved there. And if you forgive July this book,
- 2:37:45you can do it with the last one that has been published alone to
- 2:37:48Fide, if you can do it on the website is the FIDE editorial cefes
- 2:37:52Solafide. Yes, sir, it' s very intense. Can you ask
- 2:37:54that it is in order to be able to ask perfect only fi of the
- 2:38:01publisher only fide perfect, perfect, even more direct and the publisher of angelican
- 2:38:07is Yes? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? That' s great, that
- 2:38:07' s great? Well, Antonio, I really appreciate your appearance. I
- 2:38:13congratulate you on these two books, which are very interesting contributions, One from
- 2:38:20the theological perspective, also gypsy and also from society regarding that important minority in
- 2:38:30the Gypsy world. But then also this book of the Bible, this from
- 2:38:35its origins to the most recent translations, which we are always interested in the
- 2:38:41Bible. We are the people of the book. The Bible is the master
- 2:38:46' s book, the master' s book of life. He has stories,
- 2:38:52has stories, has poetry, has biographical records about the person of Jesus
- 2:39:00has epistolary letters from the apostles, especially from the apostle Paul. And then
- 2:39:05he has books also the biblical apocalyptic, such as the book of Daniel,
- 2:39:13the book of Revelation, very important that have a connection after seven hundred years
- 2:39:22later history. They have a prophetic connection in very important parts that authenticate the
- 2:39:30prophetic message of the apostles. Anyway, it' s for when you find
- 2:39:35out that the Bible is God' s book and that it' s like
- 2:39:41discovering the, say, the secret of life. The great secrets of life
- 2:39:45are revealed in the Bible. So, well, then, let' s
- 2:39:50get rid of this book of our friend and dear brother Antonio Carmona. Heredia.
- 2:39:56The Bible from its origins to the most recent translations. Antonio, my
- 2:40:05dear friend, I send you a very affectionate hug. Thank you so much
- 2:40:09for inviting me to July and the second time. I thank you so much
- 2:40:13for being able to talk about my books and for being able to collaborate with
- 2:40:18you, which has been a pleasure and an honor to be here on your
- 2:40:20show. Of course, for me, I' ll send you a hug
- 2:40:22forever. Until always I miss the train of life, an exciting journey along
- 2:40:46the routes of the heart, an unforgettable trip at the pace of trem the
- 2:41:07evangelical churches a place of peace and friendship. You can freely attend the nearest
- 2:41:13evangelical church in your neighborhood or your population. You' ll be very welcome.