A canary think Argentina
few weeks ago an Argentine friend invited me to her blog to write something like what has the title: how a canary sees Argentina.
http://www.listao.com.ar/2009_05_01_archive.html In
was published. And I share this blog also from Argentina
is a village twenty years ago my attention. I had to attend many of his countrymen, as well as Chileans fleeing dictatorships existing there. Its physical integrity was threatened. The stories I heard were shocking. Many in this country that owes so much, "Spain", was granted protection of political asylum. And many of them, when they disappeared the cause of his departure, returned to their home country to rebuild, with yours, a country that has drifted. All an act of courage, rejecting the security they offered these walls because of the risk in building others.
He democracy. But Argentina kept coming to Spain. The subjects seemed the same. You saw documentaries and entertainment arose before your eyes a bit hellish. Especially when in a moment, seen from here, it seemed that the powerful were raffled the country and offered for sale to outsiders.
I never wanted to think of what I do not understand, what we do not live from within, especially when it is a political issue. But always surprised me one thing: the admiration for a people who, aware, productive natural resources it has, takes to the streets to protest, to assert their rights above all else, and there are pictures of my retina pans-awareness of their situation and that, however, when an election change that occurs is purely formal and no content. Argentine friends asked me who would tell stories, say true, that one finds it hard to take. Bought votes, more votes for the always where poverty and less culture and the like.
I do not judge. I do not live the situation. Afraid to talk about these things. But I appreciate the awareness of people claiming that hits the streets, calling for changes, he believes in evolution. He deserves more.
These days, the hands of another Argentine friend, I have been a few documentaries. "Memory of a plunder", "Argentina pop" ... I saw them with care. I have paid my listening. My heart was beating. Looked like some were excited to tell what they had experienced. Disappearances, privatization, sale to foreign capital more gifts abroad, a large percentage in neighborhoods around the capital and in towns plunged into unemployment, poverty and ignorance. Little attention to education ... I feel that in Spain we are better. We will be more lucky. At other times many were to look for life there. But that luck also deserve the brotherly people. It is not just the ups and downs in which they live. Deserve stability. And a more competent leaders. Seeking the united strength to his people, rather than on alliances with buddies beyond borders. Argentina, Metis people, a mixture of cultures and diverse backgrounds, also deserve to live the benefits of this mixture, when others do not only negotiate to get returns, but cooperate to share benefits.
Thanks, Hernan, for this opportunity you give me. And that the borders fall, and the walls are walls that bind us together.