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I was intrigued by this Chinese restaurant, considering the relative remoteness of Manaure. There's chifas all over South America but I've never stopped in; out of curiosity I finally visited a restaurant in tiny La Esperanza, Honduras a few years ago, giving the tired-looking owner's wife a chance to speak Chinese for a while. I thought this would be another opportunity to interview an immigrant in an unexpected place.
Turns out José is half-Chinese, born and bred in Barranquilla. His Cantonese father met his mother while vacationing in Barranquilla; the concept of a Chinese tourist in Barranquilla in the...'60s? maybe even '50s?...was baffling to me.
José couldn't have been more excited to see me, calling out "PAISANA!" while rushing to get me a chair and a delicious free mango juice. He gave me every contact detail he had, including his brother's number in Brooklyn, and told me that since his father died, he never gets to see "other" Chinese people. He showed me menus from all his cousins' Chinese restaurants, mostly in Barranquilla. When I questioned the many dubious items, he laughed and admitted it was mostly Colombian food.
José's Chinese blood was difficult to spot, but I couldn't tell him that I didn't see it. I asked him why he'd come to Manaure of all places, when the rest of his family was still in Barranquilla.
"Because there were no Chinese restaurants here," he replied. "I get to have the only one."
Ah. Now I saw it.
Students clash with the riot police as they protest against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas on March 7, 20145, 2014. Street protests erupted in Venezuela on February 4 and have continued every day since in the biggest challenge yet to President Nicolas Maduro's nearly year-old, socialist-inspired government. Public anger over rampant crime, shortages of basic goods and arrests of protesters have fueled the unrest, which Maduro charges is part of a US-backed plot by "fascists" to destabilize his regime. AFP PHOTO / MANAURE QUINTERO.
Directora de la Fundación Susu Wayuu.
Agrupa mujeres artesanas, cabezas de hogar, de la region de Manaure, Guajira.
*One of Latin America's greatest painters of the 20th. century who's portraits I have done and posted earlier**now sadly forgotten.
Mateo, engraver; at a very early age decided to become an artist, leaving his native Venezuela for Paris where he became enchanted with the art of Kandinsky, Picasso, Goya and who knows who's other works he felt inspired by. so much so that his works started to look like the works of these ghosts. Not until his return to Latin America where he "discovered" his roots he became a artist and later the inventor of "figurative semi- abstract" and "neo-dadaista" art in which he best expressed himself by painting "standees" cut-outs which he than arranged on his canvases in a foirm of collage. When asked why he chose to complicate things; he replied: I don't have the strength to paint "ninos destrozados, quebrados como viejos juguettes abandonados" /broken, used up, thrown away children/, "I don't cover up, I do see and feel it and I am part of it, were I to paint it as everyone sees it, no one would see it. In the 60,s, millions of children in Latin America lived beyond anything Americans can imagine.
Manaure continues to live in my own humble paintings when dealing with darker side of our souls.
I will be posting some of his art as soon as I get it scanned from my transparencies.
**my portraits of Manaure, even though very good, when posted to flickr. received no faves and scant views and no comments, perhaps a photograph will remind practicing artists where our own art originates!
Producción de sal
En Manaure se encuentran las salinas marítimas más importantes del país en un área aproximada de 4,080.45 hectáreas. Las subdivisiones más importantes son:
Área de evaporación, con un total de 3,633 hectáreas.
"Charca shorshimana" con 39.67 hectáreas;
la cristalización y la cosecha la realizan los indígenas.
"Charca Manaure" con 30.45 hectáreas.
Es un área de explotación mecanizada.
"La Nodriza" donde se encuentra la salmuera óptima para cargar los cristalizadores,
tiene un área de 92 hectáreas.
Cristalizadores del área mecanizada, con 206.21 hectáreas.
Cristalizadores del área artesanal, con 79.12 hectáreas.
La sal ha sido por décadas la columna vertebral de la economía en el municipio de Manaure (La Guajira) y una especie de oro blanco del que los pobladores (indígenas o no) se han valido para levantar a sus familias, siendo hasta el año 2009 el productor del 70% de la sal que se consumía en el país. Entre 1992 y 2002 se produjeron 4.4 millones de toneladas de sal cruda, cristalizada y sin lavar, en Colombia, de las cuales las salinas de Manaure produjo el 63.1% del total, y el 95,4% de las salinas marítimas.
La explotación de la mina estuvo desde 1970 hasta 2004 en manos del Estado, hasta que el Gobierno le entregó la empresa a tres asociaciones indígenas y a la Alcaldía, que crearon una sociedad de economía mixta llamada Salinas de Manaure (Sama Ltda.). La única condición para entregarles todos los activos, avaluados en casi $100 mil millones, era contratar a un operador privado que sacara adelante el negocio y mantuviera la producción, que para entonces estaba cerca de las 500 mil toneladas anuales. Mientras cumplían, estarían bajo la supervisión de un comité de vigilancia dirigido por el Gobierno. La idea de la cesión era que las ganancias se destinaran a satisfacer las necesidades de los wayúu de la zona.
Al finalizar el año 2012, aún no había sido contratado un operador privado, y en medio de los diversos enfrentamiento, en los últimos tres años la compañía no ha producido un gramo de sal y se ha dedicado a comercializar las reservas que quedaron de tiempos más prósperos vendiendo en el año 2011 tan solo 136 mil toneladas.
El panorama actual, según los habitantes, es devastador. Las charcas de producción están secas, desaparecieron las gigantescas montañas de sal que alguna vez fueron atractivo turístico, y dicen que los recursos de las ventas de las reservas no se ven. Hoy quedan pequeños montículos de sal y en el pueblo un mal sabor por la debacle en la empresa que fue su orgullo. Han sido los propios indígenas wayúu los que han criticado a quienes los representan en la compañía y aseguran que los malos manejos se ven reflejados en la mala situación económica que vive el pueblo.
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TOPSHOTS.
Student Bassil DaCosta is helped during an opposition demo against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas on February 12, 2014. DaCosta and a unidentified member of the pro-government group Juan Montoya were shot dead. AFP PHOTO / Manaure Quintero
Uno de los mejores percados para probar. De "Las Tinajas", restaurante de Omaira, en el Malecón de Riohacha.