my friend died Miguel Tolosa. Died a peasant lover of politics. A farmer who knew how to coexist and compete on the asphalt. A farmer who defends native corn and draft animals. He said: “donkeys and mules must be raised, they are needed in the mountain towns.”
He accumulated around 90 years of life. The years never gave up on him, always active in politics. For many years he was active in the PRI. He knew how to read history, which is why he knew how to generate his break with the party of the old regime and join Lopez Obrador and Morena. An active promoter of the vote for true change and transformation in 2018 and 2021, he died as a protagonist of the Fourth Transformation.
Miguel, originally from San Ignacio, Sinaloa, a politically active man, did it out of conviction. Social fighter in everyday life and management, a worker, who in the middle of the 2018 campaign managed to take a photo with the man he admired so much. In an electoral event that was distinguished by a crowd, he managed to take a photo with AMLO. He did it and told it with the emotion of someone who has achieved a dream, a feat. Surely that testimony is preserved in his family archives.
Active in the electoral processes, I remember the 2018 campaign, he said: “Here are 100 names, I need 100 letters signed by the senatorial candidate to take to my friends in towns in San Ignacio. “I want them to name each person, for each recipient to have a name.” Tolosa complied. Then he presented another list of peasants to bring them personalized propaganda, labeled with names.
On January 1, 2021, I received a call. Don called Miguel Tolosa, who this year was 87 years old. In a tone of joy she expressed: “My heart doesn’t fit in such a tasteful gondola.” Why, Miguel? I asked him. He told me: “Master Feliciano, Rocha Moya is already a candidate. That fills me with joy to live.”
Miguel Tolosa, A peasant of a thousand battles and many other political twists and turns, he knew good humor. Smiling was a constant in his conversations, a good conversationalist. That’s how Miguel was.
Smile, Miguel Tolosa, that the solidarity policy that you dreamed of in the twilight of your life pulsates increasingly in the town. By the way, this is the best offering before your life, a tribute that you cultivated in your own right. From grain to grain the corn is preserved, we are a people of corn, and you, Miguel, left your grain; grain that is already germinating.
Miguel Tolosa, my friend, leaves us a void. Alberto Cortez poetized it: “When a friend leaves, an empty space is left / that cannot be filled by the arrival of another friend…”. Life accumulates voids of friends who leave; pulsating eternities. Tolosa knew how to cultivate his own eternity, eternity in memories and examples for those of us who were his friends.
Miguel Tolosa: “Not forever on earth, just a little here,” poetically said by Nezahualcóyotl.
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