THE SPRING THAT ARRIVES FROM THE DRY HAZE AND THE DUST FELTED TO OUR EYES IN ALMOST 50 YEARS
By Nataniel Semedo da Silva
São Paulo - Brazil, April 23, 2018
São Paulo - Brazil, April 23, 2018
"The Cape Verdean man has always been accustomed to swallowing the revolt. Accommodation that is harshly condemned even now "; Teobaldo Virgínio [Cape Verdean poet], In Cabo - Verde Paragraphs of my affection [...]
Here we are (THE PEOPLE OF THE ISLANDS!). In the spring it is neither Arab nor cold Ukraine. We are coming from the dry haze and the dust storm that shot us in the eye. We stubbornly exist as a fighting people despite the attempt to eclipse us. Ladies and gentlemen, we're coming ... The skewed paths they traced and imposed upon us in the post 1975 year of our Independence made us survive in a utopia without flesh and blood of the Nation in an illusory state terribly fitted by whom the people over the years put in power to serve. The sting of power and its intestinal attempt to keep it divided our Great People into "THEM AND US". The new season has arrived bringing the scent of roses, hydrangeas and jasmins to our resistance women and the nutrition dew to our children. We are the restitution of the stolen dream of our young and the lush and flourishing trees of our elders The honor of our men! "In life, there are no solutions. There are forces in motion: they must be created, and then solutions are followed "- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
MOTTO: WE WANT OUR CAPE-VERDE BACK! Cape Verdean public opinion has been "Stalin" and Machiavellianly paralyzed there being small manifestations of indignation here and there. The scandals have also happened because democracy itself and its players sometimes allow themselves to be sold. "Ours" prostitute herself, perhaps her current "actors and actresses" alienated her to gold, oil, euros and dollars, making her an "almost barbaric arena." Absolutely free thought is required, untying us "in this terrible hour of "political Manichaeism" in our country that translates into a schizophrenic and anti-pedagogical political bipolarization - partisan. Striving and reinventing ourselves in the inexhaustible reserves of Cape Verdeanity, we firmly continue in the process of evolution as a people and as a nation of Atlantic soul, of independent thinking that flies majestically as condor. WE ARE THE GREAT CABO - VERDIAN SPIRIT!
The 'Status Quo' that has been imposed on us 'Establishment' (dualistic) - The system imposed on the islands has already proved more than enough that it does not serve the designs of the PEOPLE OF OUR ISLANDS! Ladies and gentlemen; Your Excellencies! We are on the streets to express our deep indignation at the state of things and spirit in Cape Verde. The popular commotion grows and there is a shout for positive changes in the markets, fountains, corners, slopes, squares, esplanades, taverns, alleys and deserted valleys of the islands. We have come to the post-bourgeoisie and misery that such Illusory State of Cape Verde has created by transforming our society into an Intensive Care Unit where even children disappear and there are no lines of inquiry! How to deny the blatant? Look at the pockets of misery and abandonment by the breaches and the heights of the cities. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN IT IS EXTREMELY UNACCEPTABLE: the licentiousness, immorality, nepotism, use 'fascia' of the Public affairs and abusive exercise of power (the most recent case involved the Regional Commander of the National Police (PN) in Sal, Elias Silva arbitrarily deprived of his duties following his statements on the wave of assaults recorded lately on this island, criticizing the law Cape Verdean government in effect, saying that it "is a friend of arms").
We suggest that the instituted powers make a self-criticism of their perversity and incompetence. These who look to us with stone looks have turned us into a fighting people and that does not run away from the fight! Our parents tighten their belts and our mothers handkerchiefs while we walk almost invisible like the puma cubs.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN; EXCELLENCE! Thank you very much for your attention to this MANIFESTO!
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