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Fulgencio Ibáñez, with his daughter, Pili. 2005
Photo de Lucía Varona
Bicera is a very serving man. While I was having this interview with him, we
were interrupted because someone came to the door to ask Bicera to take him to Burgos
when he went the next day. Immediately he responded with great pleasure and they
agreed on a time to leave. This incident gave way to me asking him what he thought of
present life in Ciadoncha.
“We have become very selfish” he told me. He explained that before, when the
people did not have money, everyone collaborated. Everyone would help each other out
in any type of work, whether it was on the lands, in the field, with the animals, with
someone sick, taking others things to Burgos, anything. He says that money has ruined
the coexistence amongst the people that existed before. “Before,” he told me, “we did a
lot of favors and were very grateful. Today, we don’t do them anymore and when
someone does do a favor for us, we aren’t grateful either.”
Bicera told me about how the town has had its highs and its lows. When they
mechanized agriculture, the workers and shepherds had to go look for work in other
places. He also had to go to Burgos to work in construction, but returned because he
liked the town. He had 300 sheep that belonged to him; in the end he retired and now
lives peacefully and well in the house that he has had his whole life. He likes to travel.
He has gone to various places and says that he greatly enjoys meeting other places and
people. His grandchildren and children come to see him and as he says, he does not live
badly.
The image of Bicera will always remain engraved in the memories of many of the
people of Ciadoncha- with his sheep grazing on the fields of Castilla.
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