Some people do not leave, though they leave.
Some people lighten our paths, though their path is no longer ours.
Some people never die, though they are no longer among us.
There are people who continue, and will continue, being a light of hope, of dignity, of freedom.
Thus is Don Juan Chávez Alonso, our teacher, example today and always of what we can be as people and of the world we can build together.
Thank you, Don Juan, hasta siempre.

We share here these words of Don Juan, recorded three years ago in the Encounter against Impunity at the caracol of Morelia.