August 10, 2007
With Every Woman, a Story
Ana Orizabal's role in her Mayan village was ordained by a sacred vision, and few here would deny it. Years ago she was startled awake in her tin-roof shack by a vivid dream of receiving newborns, one after another, from a single womb. The force of the image served as a message. "The saints," she thought at the time, "are asking me to take this job, to become a midwife."
Today the petite, dark-eyed 46-year-old is the village comadrona, or midwife, a traditional role in rural Latin
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