In Matagalpa where I am right now
Ben Linder is buried,
a U.S. internacionalista killed by U.S. sponsored
contras.
In the town of San Jose de Bocay where he was killed there's now a neighbourhood called Barrio Ben Linder.
Ha, and tomorrow I go to seaport
Corinto which was destroyed, also by the U.S.
As we came to the country to work for a week, the next day after Daniel Ortega was announced president, as soon as we got off the bus one peasant jokingly said to another:
Mira, solo ganó Daniel y ya vienen los cheles
Look, Daniel just won and the whites are already coming.
When snadinistas first came to power there have been a lot of cheles (whites) working in solidarity, and people remember this and expect this to happen again.
and, 2 of recent snaps.
copyleft Simón :)
sorry, i do not post a lot here recently, but there's some more photoes at
chapeye (with text in Ukrainian which i can translate in comments on request)