I've tried for weeks to get to Escobar. Perhaps Pablo lived there? In any case that's where ny anscestors came from.Catching busline 60 north up the Delta to Escobar wasn't as easy as I thought. Most 60s don't go that far, although the sign in front says so. Finally finding the semirapido, I was short of the bloody scarce coins.
However, today I had saved for weeks and prepared myself with lots of coins, determined to make it.
At Plaza Italia I realized coins weren't required after all. At the busstand tickets were on sale for bills..
The road passes sump and straw, farmers and mosquitoland, industry, gross Carrefour, ads for "Country" living...Ueahhh..Finally, an hour and a half later: Escobar!
Solitude at the combined bus and train station. Here is fuckin' nothing to do!!
Bycicle parking. Pampa life requires a bycycle, but who wants to bring it to the city?A choripan and a sodawater was enough, I couldn't even find a decent coffee house.
I have to get out of here, boards the bus back "home", feel safe. Newspaper pages blows along the road with the wind. A lonely bus stand. A stray dog tries to climb into a conteiner for food.
It's all just gray, dusty, decay, sad, lost. Winter.
Todays news:
The "famous" FARC guerilla soldier Nelly Avila "Karina" turns herself over to Colombian authorities.
A two-year old girl was killed yesterday by neighbourhood kids in a poor villa; 7 and 9 years old. Foul memories of "Baby-James" in England 15 years ago.
ETA blew another bomb in Spain. No-one killed this time.
Xenofobia and racial riots in South Africa. A press picture of a man burned alive.
The agrarian strike in Argentina will end tonight by midnight.
And now: Patti, arrested in Escobar earlier this year.This is perhaps where the dictatorship bastard and hyene Luis Abelardo Patti should have gotten help..then he would have been treated a bit harsher than he is.
www.desaparecidos.org/arg/tort/policia/patti
(the link says it all..)
...en el tiempo de la cholera...
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