My name is Margarita Mbywangi. The Paraguayans called me Margarita but Mbywangi is my real name – it means a kind of rodent in my native language, Aché. I'm 47 and I was born in the jungle in the department of Canindeyú in eastern Paraguay, the seventh of eight children. My parents were hunters. People went around naked and we only slept in a hut if it rained. When I was three my father was bitten by a snake and died. My mother was pregnant at the time, and it was hard because if you're a widow there's no one to get meat for you.
我名叫玛格莉塔•穆贝瓦妮(Margarita Mbywangi)。巴拉圭人叫我玛格莉塔,但我的真名是穆贝瓦妮,在我的母语阿契语(Aché)中,意思是一种啮齿动物。我今年47岁,出身于巴拉圭东部的卡宁德尤省,在八个孩子中排行第七。我的父母都是猎户。我们总是光着身子四处行走,只有下雨时才会睡在棚屋里。我3岁时,父亲被蛇咬伤致死。我母亲当时怀孕在身,当时的日子很不好过,因为没有人给寡妇弄肉吃。