ABSTRACT
After experiencing encuentros where numerous travellers meet in places-in-motion and continue moving in more than one direction, where many journeys cross but do not end, and where refugees and repatriates cross borders ad infinitum. The most important point that wants to make about indigenous people as travelers, refugees, repatriates, and other cruceros, is that the pathways of these people intersect with those of others in Carolina and beyond, both in connection with violence and economics. The crosses of Jacaltenango stand on the site of real deaths where this side of life bleeds into the other. They also signify the presence of el otro lado in everyday life en este lado. Santos' first return to his own municipio to perform music composed en el otro lado resonated in an ironic sense with our own preparations to leave. The night's "theme" seemed to be that of departure and return, one mixing with the other.
