We went at 3:00 in the afternoon again to the juvenile prison (Detention Center for Adolescents). Today there was a party, Tico Orozco, Ale Santos, Gilberto Corrales, actor Felipe Tútuti, Carlos Valdés and Issa Tuxpan decided to put on stage the play “La Marcha de Siqueiros” in the juvenile prison. They would rebuild all the technology for the stage to be alive in exchange for actors (young inmates) that would perform as prisoners.

It was an audacity and of great generosity on the part of the producers and crew who, without any charge, with great care, true love and with the desire that these boys would be touched by the theatrical effort in hopes that they stay away from offenses after serving, and for now to let them feel a change of environment, one that makes them happy. Siqueiros argues again with the jailers, scolds the lawyers again, and fights again with Monard (the one who did kill Trotsky). We see him great in Tútuti’s long, intense, well-said monologue that forces us not to miss a word.

Director Gilberto Corrales uses acrobatics to translate this extraordinary work from the Esperanza Iris Theater in Mexico City to a real prison yard, surrounded by watchful watchtowers. The group of producers allows young inmates to escape into another fantasy and immerse themselves in something new (for them) different, which is given to them with great love and will.

Trotsky emerges from oblivion along with Adolfo López Mateos, Poniatowska, the film director Luis Buñuel and a little of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera who were witnesses of the real-life events.

La Marcha de Siqueiros shows the depth and skill of writer Daniel Salinas (original piece) and dramaturg Bárbara Perrin in another context and in another reality.

Who dares to boldly go tell a prisoner’s story to inmates in a detention center, where they talk about breaking through the walls and transporting themselves to a world of creativity and imagination? Who dares to tell those imprisoned that there is a world of hope afterward?

The more I think about what happened, the more I am impressed by the love for humanity shown by the team that brought that performance TO THE JUVENILE PRISON.

Here’s to those who created the work and made it possible. Here’s to the humanist gesture of generously and boldly putting in on a play in prison. Health and a thousand more triumphs.