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  • Essay / Barbara Arredondo: I am here - 564

    INTRODUCTIONHow far would you go to bring real change for your country? Or what is the limit to start doing something? Barbara Arredondo in the Age of Violence in Mexico (2011) "I decided to look for the Mother Teresas, the Einsteins and the Gandhis of the 21st century, and I found them." She was a journalist who worked during the harshest moments of violence in Monterrey. Arredondo said (2012) that she was tired of always watching and hearing only violence in the news. The limit for her was when, Barbara Arredondo (2013), “The limit for me was two blocks from my office that there was a massacre, where a fire killed 52 people in a casino. “That’s when I decided I had to do something.” Barbara said: “In times of war or violence there is not always only negative news, I believe there is always a light in times of darkness.” At the age of 28, she created the social movement called I Am Here. DEVELOPMENTI am here is a special and international transformation movement that emerged in Monterrey in 2011, Barbara Arredondo (2013). She gathered over 20 inches...