I always had the idea that El Salvador is a microcosm of absurd contradictions, a sort of village where people represent a multitude of roles between drama and humor, as in Springfield the Simpsons, but even more obtuse Springfield, say Macondo.
The last few weeks the microcosm Salvador suffered a shock, came the news that Barack Obama came to visit, and from that moment came the expectations, each with its own, that every head is different. Weird things happened, as the days of the tour went, we feel the government institutions functioning in an efficient manner, in few days the beautification improved markedly, painted (albeit in front) and the National Theatre Library, buses were removed from the center of the capital, were painted sidewalks, streets wore safe, clean and free of potholes. The maxim that says "We must fix the house when guests arrive," an absurdity, it should always be so, but of course, our authorities should assume no trust between us. Absurd, one does not expect Paris Champs Elysees cleaned only when there is an important event, is a continuum, the adornment and aesthetics should be made permanent.
I realized that despite the clean and tune the town's famous sidewalk signs (MUPIS) are as many as peddlers in the middle, practically these commercial eyesores have taken the streets, it is necessary to establish a crusade against them they ruin the aesthetic little we have left. And last but not least, the wires connecting telephone services, data and electricity throughout the city put the other 50% of visual pollution. If MUPIS do on the ground, the cables made in heaven, is expensive, but is to evaluate whether major streets would be safer and aesthetically (though expensive at first) to have underground cables
The most picturesque is the opinions of people in relation to the presidential visit, some people get excited as if it were one more than the entertainment, others complain using their traditional chants, and some are only requests that immigration reform, the TPS that the war on drugs. Some armed protests, others are thinking about pulling hair on the streets closed for the protests and security operations. Some leave funny, there was a guy who invented Pupusa Obama, based on corn bold, leaving out the rudeness that is the question of black pupusa from the point of view of American society would swear that is part of an SNL skit . In the television and newspapers have seen and read the "opiniólogos" with his usual authority to speak of the arrival of Obama and as usual, you always have an opinion for anything in his character of "experts" talking mouth filled of the political, economic, security, geopolitics, blah, blah, blah of the visit. On the other hand we see the media running from side to side, trying Aruna any notes and dream for a moment that they are cutting some international chain of CNN, jokes and comments on Facebook and Twitter are in tune with Obama, speaks volumes.
But I think among the most emblematic of the tour in El Salvador is to visit the crypt of Romero, an entirely political, but that generates an earthquake in our polarized attitudes, break the pattern of the Cold War of political identities have been built since then, the crypt is a symbolic place, he says "something" actually tells us a lot about who we Salvadorans, and implies that Obama is there the representative of one of the participants (although not direct civil war) considers it a step, turning the historic sock somehow recognize what needs to be recognized.
When we see images of Obama with Funes off the crypt we realize that twentieth-century has passed, the schemes that have been used have no meaning beyond our tiny columns of Hercules, or simply as an illustration, the world does whenever he is on other side.
In any case, it was easier for a U.S. president to come and visit the tomb of Archbishop murdered any of our former President has even imagined.
Romero Romero has now opened and closed.
The last few weeks the microcosm Salvador suffered a shock, came the news that Barack Obama came to visit, and from that moment came the expectations, each with its own, that every head is different. Weird things happened, as the days of the tour went, we feel the government institutions functioning in an efficient manner, in few days the beautification improved markedly, painted (albeit in front) and the National Theatre Library, buses were removed from the center of the capital, were painted sidewalks, streets wore safe, clean and free of potholes. The maxim that says "We must fix the house when guests arrive," an absurdity, it should always be so, but of course, our authorities should assume no trust between us. Absurd, one does not expect Paris Champs Elysees cleaned only when there is an important event, is a continuum, the adornment and aesthetics should be made permanent.
I realized that despite the clean and tune the town's famous sidewalk signs (MUPIS) are as many as peddlers in the middle, practically these commercial eyesores have taken the streets, it is necessary to establish a crusade against them they ruin the aesthetic little we have left. And last but not least, the wires connecting telephone services, data and electricity throughout the city put the other 50% of visual pollution. If MUPIS do on the ground, the cables made in heaven, is expensive, but is to evaluate whether major streets would be safer and aesthetically (though expensive at first) to have underground cables
The most picturesque is the opinions of people in relation to the presidential visit, some people get excited as if it were one more than the entertainment, others complain using their traditional chants, and some are only requests that immigration reform, the TPS that the war on drugs. Some armed protests, others are thinking about pulling hair on the streets closed for the protests and security operations. Some leave funny, there was a guy who invented Pupusa Obama, based on corn bold, leaving out the rudeness that is the question of black pupusa from the point of view of American society would swear that is part of an SNL skit . In the television and newspapers have seen and read the "opiniólogos" with his usual authority to speak of the arrival of Obama and as usual, you always have an opinion for anything in his character of "experts" talking mouth filled of the political, economic, security, geopolitics, blah, blah, blah of the visit. On the other hand we see the media running from side to side, trying Aruna any notes and dream for a moment that they are cutting some international chain of CNN, jokes and comments on Facebook and Twitter are in tune with Obama, speaks volumes.
But I think among the most emblematic of the tour in El Salvador is to visit the crypt of Romero, an entirely political, but that generates an earthquake in our polarized attitudes, break the pattern of the Cold War of political identities have been built since then, the crypt is a symbolic place, he says "something" actually tells us a lot about who we Salvadorans, and implies that Obama is there the representative of one of the participants (although not direct civil war) considers it a step, turning the historic sock somehow recognize what needs to be recognized.
When we see images of Obama with Funes off the crypt we realize that twentieth-century has passed, the schemes that have been used have no meaning beyond our tiny columns of Hercules, or simply as an illustration, the world does whenever he is on other side.
In any case, it was easier for a U.S. president to come and visit the tomb of Archbishop murdered any of our former President has even imagined.
Romero Romero has now opened and closed.
Extra: At the time of writing this post, it appears that Obama will not visit the archaeological site of Joya de Ceren and San Andres, a penalty for the national archeology, could be the opportunity to establish lines of support, scholarships research, far beyond Fullbright, taking into account that the current resident of the White House has always been prone to science and education.
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