Welcome to Europe dear Aung San Suu Kyi !!!
I walked for two days through thick jungle that border between Burma and Thailand to reach a settlement karen, where there was no electricity or running water, but children and more children with that smile that is only seen when happiness is full.
The same smile that will be shown across Suu Kyi, newly elected as deputy, the border of his beloved country, without fear of ever more read dejen return home.
THE WHOLE WORLD IS OF CONGRATULATIONS!
The "Lady" Burmese happened 15 years locked up at home and 24 of captivity. He won the Nobel Prize in 1991 and freedom of expression in a country of military tyrants deprived of honor it is picked. These days Europe, non-crisis, but of the Nobel Prizes and the Human Rights received again after a long time.
It premiered a few weeks ago in neighboring Thailand, specifically in the border town of Mae Sot and then to Mae La, the largest refugee camp in the UN administered 40000 karen.
I arrived in Mae Sot before crossing part of that jungle and meet one of the hundreds of settlements karen. The neighboring Myanmar had closed its borders monks revolts for freedom.
I left there towards green and lush that corner where the children were playing with a stick, a rope and empty plastic bottle.
On this side of the office the atmosphere was calm, but means all parts of the world covered news from this position.
I left there towards green and lush that corner where the children were playing with a stick, a rope and empty plastic bottle.
In one of the conversations I had, one parent told me: "An entire generation has been born here. Our country does not recognize our status, and land that welcomes us does not give us workability. I have no other roots than those of the site to allow a decent education for my children ". He knew it was the perfect weapon against slavery, take this form it takes.
But these days a breath of hope and justice to the feminine and delicate silhouette comes from Burma…there is no doubt important changes that are suffering the autarkic country after the elections last 2010, although she remains cautious.
Today, the conflict between the Karen and the Burmese regime holds the unenviable record of being the longest civil war in the history of mankind.
A regime that came to power in 1962 after a coup, that 1990, in the last election, annulled by decree the victory party legitimate Suu Kyi and changed the country's name and the location of the capital, in a desperate attempt to erase all memory of any trace of what was once the nation.
Burma's capital Rangoon no longer. The capital of Burma now is the newly built Naypyidaw.
The Karen conquer the forest plot, with the help of elephants, their most precious treasure.
I spent the night talking to them between candles. I slept on the floor of a wooden house in the village. They were built a meter and a half from the jungle floor to protect it from the threats of rain and certain animals. In that space under the house, a herd of pigs frolicked in the mud, while its noise just let me sleep.
Our country does not recognize our status, and land that welcomes us does not give us workability. I have no other roots than those of the site to allow a decent education for my children
The next morning was spent with all the kids. What was my surprise when one of them, in that corner of the world, wearing a shirt with the arms of Madrid. I have a photo. Sorry for the Catalans, but the heart karen is Madrid!. I exchanged nods and smiles with a woman who was drying his "chilis" in the sun on a blanket, as long as a slant-eyed little boy peeked through fabrics that her mother wore. Share a talk magic with one of the elephants there. He looked at me and I watch him with admiration. I saw bamboo used both as building material for kitchenware, and today I still have at home the cup that made me one with your blunt machete.
Before starting the return trip I went to the "Seven Eleven" for a bottle of water. Do not think that now I'm crazy, but one of these huts had handwritten, Seven Eleven, being as close to "super" of the people. In veáis laughter that I entered al Verlo. Can you imagine that the head of that firm's advertising and know that I have had the home photo? Without knowing anything about the world of ads, I know that is a good reef.
The way back was on the back of my friend. We already knew. I do not know if you played once the skin of a pachyderm, but paqui-dermo means thick-skin, so imaginadla. Never stroked something so hard and rough. His hair was spiked, rollers teeth, and hoof pads that make this giant gray on a stealth.
Still being very uncomfortable crossing, see the jungle from up there, is to feel the power that these beings hold conscientious. We crossed a river, I picked up my legs so that my boots got wet and prayed that he did not tinkering with the water and its trunk, but otherwise the experience would have liked to see that in the middle of the jungle in Thailand I hit a real shower of mud and water pressure. A luxury organic spa fledged!.
I said goodbye to my new friends near a river where a boat would take me to a village near Mae Sot. Those people that smile has returned because the Lady again invade with his strength and passion.
Thanks Suu Kyi and thanks Karen for not having lost hope after so long.
Long live your example!
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ricardo
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Very good story and very timely Nacho. Good for Suu Kyi! As Solis say Cell, who resists, wins. That if, I missed the photo of the child with the shirt of Madrid (Do not you will have censored the editor, lol not?)
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Uvillanueva
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Great article!!
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The Author
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Dear Ricardo, you know like censorship rules…lol.
I will get a copy of it. NOT hesitate. Thank you for your words. They are a great flattery.
Uvillanueva, I'm glad that you liked. The Lady should be a source of inspiration for these times of dark vanity.
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Taits
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The tenacity of a people by what they should. Beyond the injustice of the oppressor. A classic in the history of mankind.
Great article!!!! The T-shirt kid yet knows Madrid Mou…
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Borjoso
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Very good article Nacho!! I'm looking forward to seeing the photos of Seven Eleven and child Madrid's shirt…..
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Laura
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Sensational your article Nacho! And the pictures are full of magic!
Congratulations!
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Juliana
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Nacho, Very interesting what you say and how you tell!!! Thanks for sharing the story and history!!!
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Ramon
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Nice story, this beautiful place that accounts.
We need you with a ticket in one hand and a pencil in the other to travel with you, and that you make us share your "stories".
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Gundi
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You are a phenomenon Nacho,I loved the article! That travel envy! I hope you all enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed myself.
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Jose Maria Pelaz Antolín, PEPA
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Very nice and well taken.
Thanks Suu Kyi and Nacho.
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Galvan silvia garcia
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Not everyone is able to convey what living in a pleasant and concise, and less written. You have that gift. Continue enjoying your readings. Thanks
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Nacho, the author
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I thought to welcome such a character was a good idea, given time wanton greed and darkness we live.
To my best feelings she inspires me, best initiatives. I hope you his magic to everyone s influence in the same way.
Thank you for your words as loving.
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JCRS
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Brave!!!! Congratulations on the article. A pleasure to read.
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Mariasun
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Seeing the example of San Suu Kyi, one reconciles humanity and although sometimes get discouraged and go into a moral crisis, know that there is still hope. My husband tends to think that we are "bad bugs.", as says Dr.. Cavana, but I, I rather like Rojas Marcos, GOOD that Humanity is why we have not extinguished. What can be ascertained is that it continues "at face value", the tradition of Cain and Abel. But Cain has won the……. although sometimes it seems.
Nacho is infecting people your vitality, and you do not lose NEVER
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