Aprender con las luchas: el caminar del “Doc Alonso”

To introduce the interview, Dr. Inés Durán comments: Jorge Alonso or “Doc Alonso” - as he is known by colleagues and friends - is a man of serious countenance, firm bearing and penetrating gaze who keeps a big heart. Since his beginnings, walking with the Jesuits, he has dedicated his life not only to reflection, but also to accompanying those at the bottom. In the seventies, he began to investigate the situation of the garbage pickers in Monterrey: he impregnated his clothes with the smell of garbage to understand, from a Marxist vision, the exploitation they lived, given that in the end all waste is money. Today his concern has grown and he looks with anguish at the multiple dispossessions that are experienced both in Mexico and beyond. However, in his journey he has understood that in order to maintain hope we must listen and learn from social movements, anti-capitalist struggles, emancipatory and autonomous processes that give us clues to create alternatives for life.