According to Jorge Sifuentes , a journalist for the national newspaper La Jornada, explains that the choir began as a religious way of commemorating that the Bible was translated from Spanish to “tzotzil”, their dialect, back in 1996.
Según Jorge Sifuentes, un periodista del diario nacional La Jornada, explica que el coro empezó como una manera religiosa de conmemorar la traducción de la Biblia del castellano al “tzotzil”, su dialecto, en 1996.