The African Macondo: Javier painful victory Brandoli
Javier speaks of his African experience as "a wonderful defeat" and I rather think it is a painful victory, that of a guy who loved so intensely Africa ended aching Africa. And we with him.
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Mozambique es un país desconocido, hitherto. Se separa de los destinos turísticos habituales de África y Javier Brandoli nos envía sus relatos desde allí.
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Mozambique, ten images
Mozambique was my home for more than two and a half years. A country full of contrasts that wander between diluted or reborn. It can be the great jewel of South Africa if they decide to really bet on it. Mozambique must decide what it wants to be.
Africa: in the last things
My brother, a great guy who sees life with some clarity by removing decorations, He once told me something that I never forgot the first time I left here: "Africa was your dream, was the legitimate. For all those who do not dare keep your dream ". And I listened to him, although sometimes it cost a little, and i dreamed.
A biopsy in Mozambique
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.
A special holiday in Mozambique
This special party could not be a more. The guests came from Bagdag, Bucharest and Cairo, Rome and Treviso, Azores, Kuala Lumpur and, also, from Madrid. In his shoes totaling more kilometers than the very Willy Fog. The place was magical. Everything was magical.
Ruta VAP (II): Things waters of the Indian
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.
Slowly
And in between everything and step, never on that route is the third time that had passed so many things in my environment. It was as if everything had answer because nothing was asked. And the sun stood with us and, thing to do everything so slow, we was always waiting.
Ruta VAP (1): I believe in Africa
This makes me doubt the desirability of international cooperation and the future of this continent. Few meters separate a glimpse of another Africa. Is South Africa the model to follow? It is the European colonization responsible for African problems?
Poetry Mozambique
He is declaiming voice actor in Mozambique. And the country spoke of them in poetry. Rained down words and dreams, complaints and longings, while cinched night. And he spoke of the reach of the day, undeath miracle on earth. And love, only poetry originally invented to cure the ills of having broken the soul and will remain so as long as life is not ordered and bored
Mozambique: the forgotten dead
Mozambique is rarely discussed. You may also talk about the wrong way when we do. It is not easy to put into reality the international media of a neighboring country two giants information such as South Africa and Zimbabwe. Then he falls in social reports or headlines to justify their media space Cornered. I will try to settle here because my debt as a journalist to chronicle of a country that is experiencing a forgotten conflict, unwitnessed.
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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.
Immoral bribe to cure malaria
Cover, we gave him 200 MZN (5 EUR). I felt terrible. I'm ethically against all such arrangements fucking destroy this land. What to do? How to play the cards in a world without rules?
Ruta VAP (IX): arrived on the island with no time
when I imagined this whole project not imagine traveling with eight people from the category of Victor Hugo, Amaia, Txarli, Rosa, Irene, Martin, Lino and Monica, Traveled with eight good people who want to share a dream, I was just one more, the writer of this text, and therefore I'm Javier, the ninth of this group who crossed Africa, Malaui y Mozambique.
Ruta VAP (VIII): sleep in the “worse” hotel in the world
Have water?, asked. “No, no water, "he said quietly as the two we lay on a plastic couch office whose ceiling had a crack that threatened to collapse on our heads.
Ruta VAP (WE): the worst day of the trip
[st] We had almost called for trouble by announcing so many times that there was a route before Vilanculos and…
Ruta VAP (IV): the grotesque military convoy
For weeks there was no civilian casualties and the army had put a military convoy vehicles we heard all kinds of stories. None resembled reality.
Ruta VAP: la tercera vía
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 ...
Ruta Vap, South Africa: crear un grupo
We crossed the border two cars and ten people who had no doubt, had become a group that would route some tests to demonstrate their unity. You were one and that was to say goodbye weeks later in Nampula, without the singular hinder anyone. "We got the hardest", I thought as we headed to Maputo.
Tanzania y Mozambique, from the air
He must have a border indicate air when you've crossed a border. We could entertain us lie saying that the change is very noticeable. The new houses, roads, Crop, tones of water or any kind of idiocy that allows us to establish ourselves in the deception that is often reality eye.
Villas do Indian: the prettiest tent sea
The site is cute, very pretty, carefully detailed rooms, excellent food restaurant and a pool and sea clear and warm water. But what I like is that I realized that the only rule that was imposed on me own and it was written: "Bother you in", said in a sign that no one painted.
The “madness” and humor
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.
Girls soldier: his tale of horror
[st] Author's Note: finalmente el reportaje de las niñas soldado violadas al que le faltaba una foto…
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.
Today has not killed anyone in South Africa
My work as a correspondent condemns these countries to have killed and scams. I can not, not published, send a notice to be called "a week ago in South Africa do not violate anyone". Nor imagine three columns or cover of the news website explains that "Mozambique's Ministry of Labour is not corrupt", accompanied by a detailed report which reveals that deviated dollar budget for "youth training".
