
30.03.08
Resistencia

27.03.08
Meeting Indians in the middle of a globalized world
Next stop: Campo Nueve. A small town along the country's main east-west connection and all the traffic and mills alongside the street almost make invisible what happened to be here first. About 4000 Indigenas live in the province, in about 40 settlements of which one can find 18 around Campo Nueve. Somewhere on the countryside, with no direct access, no paved roads, no road or settlement signs.
Here, in the middle of nowhere, a developement got a face which I vaguely heard of but which always stood far away. Paraguay, together with foremost Argentina and Brazil, has been experiencing the great world wide boom for soya since two decades. As an alternative for petrol but, first of all, to feed the cows in Europe, the US and China. The price rose incredibly in the last years and therefore it became an unbelievable lucrative business. With all the consequences that are
I am writing from a ciber next to the bus station in Asunción and I am up top visit the places in Chaco, Argentina. Since the internet facilities were rare in Paraguay, I couldnt write many mails. As soon as I have better opportunities, I will answer!
Nueva Germania
19.03.08
Paraguay

My start in Asuncion was quite strange: We are cooperating with a German protestant church in Paraguay and here, German means German! Yesterday was a meeting of the curch members in which I participated, and almost all of them spoke German! Some families since 5 generations and just inside the closed community in Paraguay, they have never been in Germany! Que raro- how strange. Additionally, the big inequality in Latinamerica once more. Richer then Nicaragua and poorer than Argentina, here the modern parlamentary building is directly located next to one of the poorest "villas" (slums) of the city, and the eastern part of the city has to protect its rich quaters by the omnipresent security. And for all those who are pissed of the snow in central Europe, a last information: It has 37C degrees and one can hardly walk outdoors. Folks, it sounds like I wont have internet for the next week but hope to return to the blog with some nice pictures from the countryside! Ah: And I will visit some indigenious settlements, finally this trip becomes a Western!
11.03.08
Computer Tango
Kein Eintrag, kein Bilder, keine Kommentare. Die letzte Woche hat mich das Buero verschluckt. Draussen tobt der Tango und drinnen die Suche nach der perfekten Zahl. Was kostet ein deutscher Freiwilliger in Argentinien? Zu Ostern, hoffe ich, kann ich es euch sagen! Mich verwirren die 40 jetzigen und die 40 kuenftigen Freiwilligen, die Ansprechpartner in Deutschland und Argentinien und natuerlich: die Sprache. Gerne bestelle ich Gebaeck mit: "Ich bin zwei Croissant", frage an der Tuersprechanlage: "Wie bist du?", sage der Kassiererin "Ich liebe meine Tuete" usw. usw. Zum Bus fahren habe ich eine Woche Anlauf gebraucht, weil ich seit 4 Jahren die Horrorgeschichten vom Kleingeld fuer den Bus hoere (die Pesomuenze kostet auf dem Schwarzmarkt 1,10!). Dafuer habe ich dann bei meinem ersten Mal dem Fahrer ganz devot meinen muehsam ergattereten Peso in die Hand gedrueckt, der mir daraufhin mit der einen Hand einen Vogel und mit der anderen den Automaten gezeigt hat. Die groesste schwule Party der Stadt habe ich schon mitgemacht, den schoensten Antikmarkt Lateinamerikas, und den Weltgebetstag fuer Guyana. Und wenn der Rest nicht soviel Alltag gewesen waere und im Buero nicht das Internet ausgefallen, dann waere das alles eine eigene Geschichte geworden. Mit Bildern! Aber erst muss ich fuer meinen Foto-akku noch einen Adapter finden. Nur, was heisst nochmal Stecker auf Spanisch?
02.03.08
Buenos Aires!
Paved roades
Middleclass cars
Warm showers
Dutch cheese
Gay messages in toilet cabins
Unbelievable confisery
Traffic lights
Taximeters
People wearing short trousers
Metros
Washing machines
Offices with Internet access
List will be continued, stay in touch!
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