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Sin lavarse las manos. Cuentos para antes de comer
Don't wash your hands, don't close your mouth and sing at table are some of the educational rules of this book. These are instructions for disobeying the injust and perverse order that reigns on our planet. The more food industrialised agriculture produces, the higher the poverty and hunger statistics are; with all the news focused on the financial crisis, the climate and ecological crises (furtively) advance dangerously; the indebtedness of rich countries and foreign debt are both eliminating the population's social rights; instead of decreasing, discrimination against women, against rural communities, against indigenous people, seems to be multiplying; even nature with its earthquakes seems (falsely) to discriminate against some countries in favour of others. We cannot wash our hands. 'Sin lavarse los manos' is therefore a collection of protest stories.