Posts Tagged ‘maputo’

I submitted two weeks before the consultation and she had forgotten to tell me that day did not come Dr.. Since then we have made a certain friendship that was forged with a smile. "I guess tomorrow will arrive alive", I told him to settle his confusion.

Until recently Mozambique was one of the poorest countries in the world. No wonder. What I have seen so far and what I have been told shows me a face of Africa a little different from the one I knew. The Portuguese had to leave in 24 hours, which did not allow a minimally planned decolonization, shortly after there was a fifteen year civil war. The result is that the few Portuguese infrastructures have been lost.

That night we go almost all the legendary Gil Vicente to hear a local band some cheer after the 1908, cool bar from Maputo, until and late hours. Back at the hotel, on the avenue 24 July, a roadblock trying to cash. Want money because Txarli not carry the passport. Play hold me until he sees that no note and let me go. 100 meters later we stop other agents again ...

In a psychiatric hospital while bombs were falling sick went outside to hold the fireworks; in a market a group of soldiers who never flees terrified a city flat hearing gunshots they believe are ambushed.