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The other face of the Gulf
During my stay through the Persian Gulf there is something that really surprised me, and it is the mistreatment to the Asian immigrants, who are fifteen million people, what according someone explained me, it means more than half of the population of the area.
By an Iraqi refugee
I met Raifed during my stay in Bahrain, and to talk was moving. Today the death toll exceed the million and half and we are between 4 and 5 millions of people homeless, refugees in the world, why? Because of the obsession with democracy. What people think? That now Iraq is safer? No, it is not! Those people who are now in the power show themselves patriotic, they try to buy people giving them money or one or another thing, but everybody know their history and their roots.
The mafia and its origin
During my journey in the south of Italy, I knew Francesco, a Political Sciences student who carried out a work about the mafia in the high school. During my journey in the south of Italy, I knew Francesco, a Political Sciences student who carried out a work about the mafia in the high school. According to him the mafia is a historical phenomenon that goes back to the middle of the XIX century when...
The life in Eritrea
Eritrea is a country that after 30 years of war, it is always ready to enter again in battle, because the peace with Ethiopia has not still settled down. Thereby, in Eritrea the military service is obligatory and it includes all the men between 18 and 40 years. All of them must serve to their homeland per 22 years or until the situation changes. met Habteab and Yonas in Asmara, the capital city of Eritrea, and when I listened about...
The Rastafarian history
Travelling through Ethiopia, I discovered I was in the land of Ras Tafari, the way they named the Emperor Haile Selassie, "The Power of the Trinity". Abyet was the rastaman who explained to me about his people, he took me to the living-room of his house and showed me a picture in the wall; "he is Tafari", he told me, "and the man to his right was my father".
Tales of a doctor
I remember Boy George, a young man of no more of 25 years of age, with his combat pants and matching jacket, apparently the leader of the group asking us: "You fucking whites what are you doing. My first job was in may 99 in Sierra Leona. We had to rebuild two hospitals destroyed by the war. One of them was a total disaster, it had no roof, nor rooms or beds; the other one only had one room.
A spanish man running away from routine
"I never like the routine. I have always dreamed of something different, but growing up in a city often makes you resign to it, and without noticing it we forget all those dreams and fantasies we have in our mindsI met Juan in Zanzibar". I met Juan in Zanzibar, a Spanish 24-year-old guy who had been working as a guide for three seasons.
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