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Reporter's Notebook: Manuela Aldabe

Pasta base en Montevideo: la droga y los tambores

Posted by Manuela Aldabe - August 24, 2005 at 5:29 pm
En Montevideo los jòvenes, y no tan jòvenes se reunen a tocar y a bailar el candombe, mùsica de origen africana tocada por los negros esclavos con tambores inventados usando barrìles de vino y piel de vaca secada que llamamos lonja.
Hoy el candombe forma parte de la ciudad y en cada barrio hay un ritmo diferente, un grupo, comparsa que se identifica.
La pasta base, residuo de la cocaìna ha llegado a las calles montevideanas. Còmo se fuma? Cuànto cuesta? Donde se compra? Porquè? A quièn le sirve? Son algunas de las preguntas que en èsta charla entre tambor y tambor con jòvenes montevideano intentamos comprender:"a quièn sirve? al sistema! a los que quieren controlar la gente, a los que no quieren que la gente piense".
duraciòn: 4'59''
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/userfiles/246/pas ta_base.mp3

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Actually I live in Italy. I was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. I'm studying History at "Roma III" University. Buenos Aires, Roma, Berlino, Amsterdam have been my schools. Photography, video and radio have accompanied me at various stages of my life in a personal development toward a deeper meaning of news.

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