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Argusino: the people claiming their souls

I spoke that their land was flooded by the waters of a dam a few decades ago by order of the authorities and that her memory of all the exiles a gap remained and now, using media, They intended to close. Some elderly people died voluntarily or sadness, they were given no option to remove their dead from the cemetery and gave them money that unilaterally decided the expropriating company.

byJavier Brandoli

22 March, 2017

Patzcuaro: the night of the dead

Mrs. Luisa is in the same chair, the same day of the year and before the same photos that he has been praying since one by one they were leaving. Since then, the night of 1 November, she pampers her altar, place your photos and light candles to show your dead the way, the way back home. We are in Pátzcuaro, Michoacán.

byJavier Brandoli

3 November, 2015

Unexplained Kumano Kodo faith

"Here faith is like a bamboo forest, It sways with the wind, change, it is flexible” The phrase was released casually in less Japanese than the Japanese in the Wakayama region. His name was Brad and he had grown up with the snows of Canada. But his soul was slanted-eyed and his heart entangled in the tangle of creeds we were about to discover..

byDaniel Landa

13 Oct., 2014

In the tomb of Mido Macia

Gone are those two older women, dressed in tight black and piercing eyes that now with the sun's reflection seem deeply moist. Their eyes are deep, strange. Nothing, no people, no forgetting and silence. Mido's death is because only that, oblivion. No more time for him in life.

byJavier Brandoli

26 March, 2013

The funeral of Mrs. Enora

[st] Under a chestnut had dozens of men sitting on the floor. They all gathered under the protection…

byJavier Brandoli

26 December, 2012

Near death

In two days I've seen two people shiver of panic. I thought both could die, they also. Her body trembled to impress their apparent fragility ... Nature in Africa is hard, conditions to deal with it too.

byJavier Brandoli

30 Oct., 2012

Highgate: forgotten cemetery Karl Marx

On a hill, Victorian graves surrounded by other illustrious neighbors, lies the body of Karl Marx. In Highgate Cemetery, in London, a place of magic. Dense vegetation between sculpture and a bust tombs under which you read a historical phrase: "Trabajadores del mundo uniros".

byJavier Brandoli

1 March, 2011

Vysehrad: the dark and obscure hill in Prague

Outside the monumental center of Prague there is a hill that is buried in the history of the Czech Republic. A cemetery, a church and gardens filled with exciting legends. A place as beautiful and haunting as the great city that was born at his feet. It all starts with the life of the Princess Libuse and pagan prophecy ...

byJavier Brandoli

17 November, 2010

La Recoleta: the kidnapping of dead Evita and Aramburu

Aramburu ordered the 23 November 1955 kidnap the corpse of Evita, being embalmed by Dr. Pedro Ara Spanish. The body is standing on a flower delivery van and begins a tour around Buenos Aires

byJavier Brandoli

15 April, 2010

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