Chronicles

Texts on travel and international politics around the globe

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Ballad world

There is a language that we all understand, a way in which man is recognized as a species, a form of universal joy: music. I want to close this 2013 with a song of joy, because what is coming it is better than we caught dancing, in case.

byDaniel Landa

30 December, 2013

Madrid to Maputo, drive

From February to April. and 4x4. A route with which to pay off an old debt. A business trip and a trip of friends a few years ago dreamed of making the trip exactly propose to do now. They dream dreams and then, if you can, met.

byJavier Brandoli

27 December, 2013

¿Eternal ice?

Glaciers advance, they move, they progress and regress and this dynamic gives them natural changes. It is their condition to be changeable. This is the essence of polar landscapes. If it is time that creates, accumulates, modify and melt the ice, it is also true that ice, well examined, makes time speak, to all that time of your training.

byEduardo Martinez de Pison

26 December, 2013

Qunu: Mandela's neighbors

"Yo odi“El 25 December he invited us all to his house and gave every child a gift. I did not want any child without a toy stay. The 1 January was the same but with the elderly ". Esa era la Navidad en Qunuo a Mandela", He tells me a young woman with whom I share table ...

byJavier Brandoli

21 December, 2013

Fort Jesus: Matatu the rap

The walk through the Old Town between narrow alleys, chipped buildings, smell of nitrate and palm groves and bougainvilleas is a must exercise of imagination: fantasize about what this old neighborhood could be shortly after investing some money in its rehabilitation.

byRicardo Coarasa

20 December, 2013

Baracoa, the end of the enchanted world

The La Farola viaduct is the window to the world - a road of unmatched beauty, but quite devious- from Baracoa. And it is the most authentic way to get to the "primate city" from Santiago de Cuba.

byDiego Cobo

19 December, 2013

Would you like to travel with us to South Africa, Mozambique and Malawi?

Three weeks of travel by 4x4 to the lesser known South African. National Parks, pristine beaches, tropical islands and history, large cities, navigate a lake, take a train African, across a large canyon, dive ... A journey of a living author for Africa at its best.

byvap

17 December, 2013

Europe

Helsinki, order against the Baltic

The city is clean as the cold, like the contrails of their ships and the glass of their aquariums. Helsinki mira al mar. It is located in front of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic, whose waters tend to freeze every winter.

byDaniel Landa

16 December, 2013

Did: looking color

I have a friend artist, always in search of color and textures. I listen carefully when I explained their progress, but where are the colors? I already know my intention imaginareis, my intention. Anyone who knows anything about Fez you will come some places known image of tanners.

byContributors

15 December, 2013

Mombasa beaches: sunrises water and fire

At eight o'clock, when usually you wake up one day routine always portends, on the beaches of Mombasa and was a happy guy. Therefore, Now when the alarm clock I often think I missed a sunrise of water and fire rings and a dip in the Indian.

byRicardo Coarasa

13 December, 2013

The real funeral of Mandela

To the Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg he has gone trips to the past to dismiss the father of Africa. Serve these images to join the tribute that the world gives Nelson Mandela in his last goodbye.

byJavier Brandoli

11 December, 2013

alvarino, the last Mapuche

Near Araucaria forests, between the Andes and glacial lakes of water lives a man named Alvarino. Maybe there just history, with his name, as to the shout only the echo of the mountains seems to respond.

byDaniel Landa

9 December, 2013

The story of the man who wanted to kill Mandela

Then, Guta asked his partner to be close the deal in a Church, before God (Ethiopian tradition that required to comply with agreed). "We went to the church and sealed the covenant before God that he would kill him and would not say anything spoken there".

byJavier Brandoli

8 December, 2013

How God dies?

Africa live with the death of a more natural that Westerners. For them death is the downstairs neighbor coming to ask for sugar. For us it is a breach in the sky that mercilessly out a demon or angel that comes to fuck the soul.

byJavier Brandoli

5 December, 2013

Cape Town (In): Robben Island, Mandela's cage

A poster, with a metal gate area shared cells (berths), in which there were always more bodies mattresses, explains the different menus that could be eaten in the criminal: Asians and mestizos (coloureds) were members of the group B; while Bantus (black) members of the Group C.

byJavier Brandoli

5 December, 2013

The true story of Invictus

The famous Nelson Mandela text delivery captain of the South African rugby, Francois Pienaar, is the poem Invictus, which gives the film its name, but a fragment of a speech by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt who performed at the Sorbonne in Paris

byJavier Brandoli

5 December, 2013

Rolihlahla Mandela: pulling the branch of a tree

What would Mandela when he thought his life perhaps he was locked up this time in the plot of a hospital? Who and what does Mandela for South Africans? Can this crazy and impossible country without her figure? I speak of my impressions. This time I talk about my life in South Africa, I say as I understand Rolihlahla.

byJavier Brandoli

5 December, 2013

"When we hear talk Madiba"

A chant sung in Zulu by hundreds of people who lament sounds, to victory in defeat, South Africa too used to losing gaining. The street is a people boil. Hundreds of people watching, dance, sing, photograph, pray, callan.

byJavier Brandoli

5 December, 2013

Racism in South Africa: the moral of the zebra and giraffe

I landed in South Africa with racist trial done beforehand and making me an easy composition of place I would make things easier to build relationships: Blacks, noncriminal, Whites are good and very bad (...). Por Javier Brandoli.

byJavier Brandoli

5 December, 2013

Johannesburg: City of Miracles

No place amazes me more than this: for his cruelty coal and gold color, for his last race with sticks and forgiveness unexplained. A South African fatalism me I think its virtue: there is no country in the world that can boast of living so well with tears.

byJavier Brandoli

5 December, 2013

The votes from the toilet

South Africa is built for the poorest outdoor communal toilets, unprotected, that degrade the dignity of persons. Many clubs Police, riots in the streets, dozens of covers of newspapers and elections. La democracia y la de hand tank

byJavier Brandoli

5 December, 2013

Tsavo: Elephants Warhol

Enter a national park and the first thing you find to be elephants red is like arriving five minutes late to a game of your favorite team and see on the scoreboard already wins 3-0. From there, It is very difficult to keep the bar.

byRicardo Coarasa

29 November, 2013

Today should be in Central African Republic

Excuse this time not describe anything. Who wants to read it ...

byJavier Brandoli

26 November, 2013

Sahrawi dancing

This is a people who are dying of thirst; they want to drink the sea but they don't let them. Are doomed to the sand, to the dust of oblivion and they walk as one walks in the desert, slowly, to nowhere, because the only oasis where to bathe your dreams dried up is 40 years.

byDaniel Landa

25 November, 2013

Naples 1944: Magistral chronicle of a surreal city	9,75/10
"The dead and the journalist": "inevitable" death	9,75/10
"The innocent anthropologist": Africa, heartily	9,75/10
Tierra de Brujas: When it doesn't rain do the blue veins dry up??	9,70/10
Of the ruins of the empires: Asia's adjustment with European colonialism	9,45/10
“A possible life”: The scar that leaves the memory	9,40/10
"Quijote in the Congo": They were not giants, It was a river	9,25/10
"Pilgrims of beauty": Italy and Greece Bacanal	9,20/10
"Travel with Charley": Raw portrait of the US 60	9,05/10
Winter notes on summer impressions: Dostoevsky in front of the mirror	8,90/10
The city of God: the guts of Rome	8,75/10
On the road: the “American Dream” of the underworld	8,60/10
Strengthen the foundation: Africa raises its voice	8,15/10
My trip to Africa: Churchill takes his rifle	7,50/10
"Mexico. Memories of a traveler ": The cursed book that clears the country	6,25/10
“Bangkok”: the adventures of a westerner among prostitutes, bars, massages and excesses	5,50/10