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Questions:
1. Why does she bring up the failure of the Nicaraguan Revolution? Why did the revolution fail, and how and why did that spark a crisis of identity and purpose for Moraga as a Chicana poet?
2. What questions does the anti-Bush protest Moraga attends spark in her? What does she notice about the identities of the protesters and counter-protesters?
3. How are revolutions won, according to Moraga, and what role should writers play in that victory?
4. What does she notice about how the Americans she encounters in a Chiapas library talk about or identify in relation to their government? How does that differ from the ways in which Latinos identify in relation to their own governments?
5. What are the ramifications of a totalizing identification between state and citizenry in the United States? What kinds of questions or critiques does it stave off?
6. What does Moraga mean when she says, "[The United States] is my land, but not my country" (156)? How in particular does this demonstrate that she navigates the nuances of US Latinx identity and identification?
7. Why is it a "painful irony" that the US's looting of Latin America is "bringing the Americas together"?