The "Tuff" echoed German Carnival
Dusseldorf, Edwin Perez Uberhuaga (AL) .- The Dance "The Toba" in the Bolivian Chaco echoed in the streets of Dusseldorf, Germany, during the famous Carnival held on February 15 and was watched by millions of people.
For the fourteenth consecutive year, the Bolivian Federation of Europe (Fobe) and the Association of Friends of Bolivia represented the only foreign country invited to the second largest German carnival. Our skin was the only bronze amid parades of German blond.
While the Bolivian flag, the flag Andean wiphala or images of the Carnival of Oruro were present, the group of a hundred dancers consisted of Bolivians, Peruvians, Ecuadorians, Colombians, Uruguayans, Brazilians, Germans and other nationalities. They belong to cultural groups who came from Halle (Belgium), Cologne, Frankfurt, Essen and other cities.
one morning with heavy snow then improved, not subtracted brightness breaks the Toba and his songs ecological and "Do not say you've forgotten the land of your birth, you say you come back come back as the river returns to the track ', that during the course was accompanied by the greeting of German dance and jump around in time to the infectious beat. Julian Arias
leaders and Tommy Pozo said that the success of this activity is the result of an outreach effort of the Andean culture and to raise awareness of the values \u200b\u200bof Bolivia, as a factor of multiculturalism.
FAITH AND TRADITIONS
Can you imagine a church full of Germans, where a group of Bolivian singing and praying in the Aymara language, showing their faith and culture?. That happened on 14 February during the Mass in honor of the Virgin of the Tunnel, the patron saint of the Carnival of Oruro, in the Church St. Maria Königin, Krahnenburgstr.3 street. Bolivian-German
Children dressed in costumes, vanguardizaron income of Bolivians and Latinos with candles in hand, while the Bolivian priest Salvador Terrazas, who performs his pastoral work in Germany, led a group Jilata guitar, singing "They come with joy Lord, who walk through life, spreading your peace and love." There
Aymara religious chants and finally a Bolivian improvised a song dedicated to the Virgin and Bolivia saying "If away from you I find myself again I do not let me die without seeing you again. "
After the moving ceremony, there was a dress rehearsal at school, dinner in the parish hall and carnival Jilata enlivened by the group. At the end everyone went to rest in the field of sports hardwood floors in an evening tinged with snoring, crying baby and the song of those who did not want daylight.
dance
After everyone went to their hometowns, after serving one more year, the dream of the founders, Antonio Acebey, Julian Arias, Victor Hugo Vaca, Carlos Toro, Yvonne Tavera, Teresa Bruncken, Carlos Tommy Pozo Ugarte and
BOX
CONQUEST OF GERMANY TO
The Association of Friends of Bolivia and Fobe, 14 years and participated in the carnival of Dusseldorf, in 2005 were invited to the reopening of the Olympic Stadium in Berlin before 80 thousand people where they danced tuffs and foremen.
also participated in the Hanover World Expo 2000 and at Christmas of 2009 together with the city of Dusseldorf and Jilata group organized a day dedicated to Bolivia.
These entities, integrated pro students, professionals and workers, has participated in almost all carnivals Europe: Manchester, London, Sweden, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, and are partners and co founder of the Carnival of Cultures in Berlin in 1990.
U. Edwin Perez is director of the magazine here in Spain-US LATINOS. Edwinperezuber@yahoo.es
Migrant
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Vitamin B Cream Autism
Migrants are guilty of development, but not the crisis (*) Christmas
are guilty of development, but not the crisis (*)
Friends: Deputy
the editorial of Latinos here (Spain-US.) In February I invite you to send me info and cultural and business contacts. Q Tell me if you want to send them the PDF.
Edwin Perez Uberhuaga
We are guilty DIRECTOR development, but not the crisis (*)
As if the last round of a boxing match in recent months, immigrants have been serious setbacks, including "cheap shots" that rather than lull us wake fact a harsh reality.
Vic did not want to and registered in Torrejón de Ardoz, several illegal immigrants expelled under the pretext of being "dangerous criminals" are hampering the process of regularization of those already here and close the doors of those who want to come, including resident victims of Air Comet. U.S. still hopes for immigration reform that recognizes rights to millions of people.
As always in crisis and more so at election time, the blame and criminalize the weakest, in this case foreigners.
Although there was a "housing bubble" was also a "bubble of integration and multiculturalism," which quickly deflates. In both cases, immigrants are the victims and on our shoulders drop from "bricks" to open or overlapping insults.
Paradoxically, Spain now holds the presidency of the European Union is obliged to apply the "Directive of Shame", which restricts the rights of non-EU.
While there is evidence of growing xenophobia, we must also note with gratitude the role of various media and sectors of civil society pushing for these cheap shots do not take us on a massive scale "clinical coma" or airport.
But it is not just solidarity, there is, but the immigrants realize that we are part of European and North American landscape and key points are in the social machinery, which would be paralyzed if we are not here.
immigrants we have become false parents and children of old, abandoned, we provide food and services, and streets filled with even more color to pale by the European cold. There are professionals who by their ability and effort are reaching high places, no one gave them anything.
But it is clear that, sooner or later, we are left alone. Spain will not recover soon. What shall we do?. Go back to our countries or stay to endure the storm?.
Everyone has the answer.
What is clear is that in our countries and here we have "blood, sweat and tears" and that this crisis is not the shadow of those in which we were born and raised. We
stoically endure this new reality, which makes our heroines and migrant women our male gladiators. We still have to learn from the mistakes we made, as carried away by consumerism, not having saved enough or not trained us more.
The stage is there and now more than ever we must fight. But it should be very clear to our "hosts" who are guilty of their development, but we are not guilty of the crisis. (UPR)
(*) Fragments of the lecture given on 20 January at the Casa de America in Alicante.
Christmas
are guilty of development, but not the crisis (*)
Friends: Deputy
the editorial of Latinos here (Spain-US.) In February I invite you to send me info and cultural and business contacts. Q Tell me if you want to send them the PDF.
Edwin Perez Uberhuaga
We are guilty DIRECTOR development, but not the crisis (*)
As if the last round of a boxing match in recent months, immigrants have been serious setbacks, including "cheap shots" that rather than lull us wake fact a harsh reality.
Vic did not want to and registered in Torrejón de Ardoz, several illegal immigrants expelled under the pretext of being "dangerous criminals" are hampering the process of regularization of those already here and close the doors of those who want to come, including resident victims of Air Comet. U.S. still hopes for immigration reform that recognizes rights to millions of people.
As always in crisis and more so at election time, the blame and criminalize the weakest, in this case foreigners.
Although there was a "housing bubble" was also a "bubble of integration and multiculturalism," which quickly deflates. In both cases, immigrants are the victims and on our shoulders drop from "bricks" to open or overlapping insults.
Paradoxically, Spain now holds the presidency of the European Union is obliged to apply the "Directive of Shame", which restricts the rights of non-EU.
While there is evidence of growing xenophobia, we must also note with gratitude the role of various media and sectors of civil society pushing for these cheap shots do not take us on a massive scale "clinical coma" or airport.
But it is not just solidarity, there is, but the immigrants realize that we are part of European and North American landscape and key points are in the social machinery, which would be paralyzed if we are not here.
immigrants we have become false parents and children of old, abandoned, we provide food and services, and streets filled with even more color to pale by the European cold. There are professionals who by their ability and effort are reaching high places, no one gave them anything.
But it is clear that, sooner or later, we are left alone. Spain will not recover soon. What shall we do?. Go back to our countries or stay to endure the storm?.
Everyone has the answer.
What is clear is that in our countries and here we have "blood, sweat and tears" and that this crisis is not the shadow of those in which we were born and raised. We
stoically endure this new reality, which makes our heroines and migrant women our male gladiators. We still have to learn from the mistakes we made, as carried away by consumerism, not having saved enough or not trained us more.
The stage is there and now more than ever we must fight. But it should be very clear to our "hosts" who are guilty of their development, but we are not guilty of the crisis. (UPR)
(*) Fragments of the lecture given on 20 January at the Casa de America in Alicante.
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