An old teacher in the Alps told his students: “Ignorance, reaching certain political heights, not knowing more, makes us forget certain peoples.” Sometimes the problems are tried to alleviate, there is talk of solutions, attempts to solve something but they do not arrive.
I remember the words of the journalist Jaíme Barrientos “Take sunglasses, cream already take these toys, because their children need them. They do not have to eat, and yet they will give you everything …”
On the plane are many journalists who review the data provided by the friends of the Saharawi people and realize the time and promises that no one has fulfilled …
“Located in the northwest of Africa, at the height of the Tropic of Cancer, with an approximate area of 266,000 km. Squares, similar to half of Spain or almost three times the extension of Portugal, the Saharawis live”
“They have moved for centuries -says José Ramón Diego Aguirre, historian, in his classic book, Sahara, the truth of a betrayal -basically they lived from their camels, their goats, of some sheep for which they were looking for their pastures. They performed some caravanero traffic.”
Where are they
“Ethnnically we are of Berber origin,” they say, “mixed with Arab origins. We talk about an Arab Berber, it is difficult to distinguish both elements.” Other opinions speak of the nomads, the Bedouins, a way of life, more than something else. Saharawi have remains of written texts in addition to a great oral tradition. But what are the Berbers? -I ask- “The term Berber is nothing more than a phonetic derivation of” barbarian “all those who lived in classical Greece were considered as such.” Gustavo Catalán Deus, a journalist, remembers what a poet Berber wrote “On Earth one finds more demolished castles than standing castles. More fat than soap, and more hunger than flour.”
Time
In these latitudes time seems to stop. Those who have been colonized have been left of the hand of God by their colonizers. “They have a lot to teach us – they tell us people who have been there – there is no trouble for them, they have that, great needs, we do we have a breakdown we throw with everything and yet it serves them.” At the time the French writer and aviator Saint Exupery knew with his words say something of which humanity is scarce.
“We, children of luxury, of comfort, experience an inexplicable well -being by sharing our last food in the desert. To all those who have known the joy of solving a damage in the Sahara any other pleasure seems futile.”
Many times, says the saying, “we have to remember the story.”
An old friend said “You do write something, remember, remember to talk about the origins.” Spain is a country where many cultures have already been established. But where do men go? Their looks are worrisome, they do not know what to do, some review the story, others write books, but the problems are still there.
Mercedes González, lives in Madrid. He was born in Sahara, although there were good times, he remembers that period of colonization with sadness.
“That’s right, there were military, I speak from 64 to 75.” Why did he leave? “For personal reasons, I had to give birth.” And life? “It was lived in different circumstances than those of now.” Should something Spain?
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