“["Ekaterine"] I started to understand the reality that exists here in Oaxaca, that many people and many communities have been forgotten by the government. I started visiting the communities. There are serious health problems and people who have to travel five or six hours to the nearest hospital, which is extremely expensive. There are children who go to school without breakfast, which makes them do poorly in school. When I started to see the situation, it made me feel like going out into the streets to defend their rights, to stand up for the people who really are forgotten. The government acts as if these people didn't exist, as if they weren't a part of us.”