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| Illimani is not what it was |
confess to La Paz is always a traumatic experience. I depressed the city of El Alto, one of the ugliest in the world and down the urban agglomeration clinging to the hillsides, where the landscape is a city in ruins, like a half-long project, with the unfinished houses ( for not paying taxes)-each a monument to ugliness, the concrete beams and brick walls without reversing.
But then friends, cultural activities, discussions always passionate about local politics, and recognition of the spaces that somehow belong to me, often relieves the sensation of breathlessness that "the hollow" I produce. Previously, four decades ago, you could see the splendor of Illimani from anywhere in the city is quietly circulating through the streets and there was less trash and odors.
Among the activities this time I witnessed, at least one interesting every day, enjoyed the concert offered public my friend Luis Rico in the Plaza Abaroa, the district Sopocachi occasion of a new remembrance of the loss of Bolivian territory in the Pacific War (1879-1883), who described to date, the landlocked country. For younger people, or one that has no access to books, this educational and artistic overview of our history was very appropriate in circumstances in which diplomatic negotiations between Bolivia and Chile are a dead end.
Although the Bolivian government has put forward continuously and the demagogic way that "we are close to reaching an agreement," in particular there has not been absolutely no progress with the socialist government of Michelle Bachelet, let alone with Sebastian Piñeira. Chile is willing to cede any territory with Bolivian sovereignty. Perhaps this made recently President Evo Morales launched the awkward phrase "not on the sea, is the day from hell." Nothing unusual in it, which is the author of an extensive anecdotes Pachot.
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| Luis Rico and Alfonso Gumucio asylum in the Embassy of Mexico in 1980 |
Lucho With Rico have a friendship of those who are sealed in both social struggle and exile, as in creative work for culture, from popular music, and I from literature and cinema . Inmates were first and then exiled in Mexico, and our paths have crossed casually in other continents. So when I met him now and he invited me to his concert, I decided that I was going to lose.
experience was both artistic and educational for all who gathered at the Plaza Abaroa, because Lucho offered a long cantata with text by Eduardo Galeano and his own music, in which recounts the historical events that led to war between Chile, Bolivia and Peru, which ended with the victory of the former and English interests in the region.
Four days after the concert, on March 23, in the Plaza Abaroa, President Evo Morales surprised everyone with a speech that throws overboard the five years of "success" in negotiations with Chile . Read-this is unusual for him a text announcing that Bolivia rejects bilateral talks and instead will now submit its application in international courts. A notable change of direction, but no change helmsman ... After five years of deception and demagoguery, we are in square one. As we did not know at the outset.
Put aside the outbursts of the first Bolivian president to return to the concert. Galeano texts, adapted and recited with the powerful voice of Luis Rico, tell the story in a way that not only penetrates through the ears, but by the middle of the chest.
Beyond the patriotic speeches, the cantata highlights the responsibility of the military rulers, Melgarejo, among others, that led to Bolivia to disaster. Manipulations England to take over natural resources in what is now northern Chile are very similar to those now implement modern powers to seize the oil from Libya on the pretext of protecting the people of that country. The same cynicism of Europe and the United States to achieve its economic and political objectives.
undoubtedly more important than five years of speeches by Evo Morales are the words of Eduardo Galeano and the voice and music by Luis Rico, to remind us that culture is ultimately what unites us and what builds our identity.
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