The Salt of the Earth Page #3

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Awesome!

The image I had in the end, are the teeth out,

They could not discern the shapes of heads, stunning.

Like we were in Dante's Inferno,

with all those teeth,

all these forms ... Incredible!

Father, talk to me a little of your 1979?

In 79, Llia was pregnant, expecting her second child.

It would be child already knew.

And when Rodrigo was born,

everything was going to be Down syndrome.

It was nice, torn eyes,

and I had the impression that it was completely normal.

And also Llia.

The doctor did many tests. Three weeks await your response.

The day I called the doctor

I felt such a strong tension,

when I saw the answer, I cried.

He could not stop mourn.

My little brother would never be able to go to school,

or read and write like me.

Rodrigo would be isolated in a world that we were never going to be able to share.

It was very difficult for my parents.

But then something happened.

Thanks to love, Rodrigo created his own language.

Slowly,

as a family, we learned to decipher their emotional alphabet

and communicate without words.

Poce later, my mother, my brother and I took a plane to Brazil.

The military dictatorship had fallen.

Topic five years and did not understand how important this trip was going to be.

At one point, a man climbed one of the blinds

and sunlight flooded the interior of the aircraft.

A voice echoed in the cabin:

"We are flying over Brazil."

My mother looked out the window and said nothing.

He was seeing his homeland for the first time after many years.

It was a moment of happiness, and yet, when I looked,

I was crying.

My father was in French Guiana and would come later.

December 31, returning to Brazil.

It was great to get to your country,

After 10 years, half out.

It was shocking. Lelia had left the Vitoria was not found.

Vitria urbanism had changed. Everything had changed.

My region had changed.

I met again with my parents. The I left young and strong.

On returning I found an old man. My father was very old.

But, at that time,

I wanted to see Brazil further.

My sister gave me a car

and I traveled for six months in the northeast of Brazil.

He did not know the northeast.

He had always dreamed of northeastern Brazil.

I met these people on a funeral.

I parked on the side of the road and went with them.

Infant mortality was very high in the northeast of Brazil.

These are children who died before baptism.

It is believed that unbaptized children

They have no right to go to heaven.

They stay in a region between both worlds, called limbo.

Children buried with his eyes closed, they were baptized.

If his eyes were open ...

and they buried him to find his way.

Otherwise, it was wandering for eternity.

At that time, the coffins were rented in the church.

Rent the coffin was cheaper.

The same coffin was used dozens of times.

This is perfectly seen the coffins to rent ...

and these are shoes.

He sold everything: shoes, coffins, bananas, vegetables,

ice cream, all ...

It is an area of ??the world where life and death are very close.

Here is a prayer group

exerting political work at the same time.

In Brazil, we had and still have

a great movement of landless peasants.

Many of them, the majority come from here.

Proviene del northeast of Brazil.

They are people

a great moral force,

great physical strength,

despite being very fragile because they eat poorly.

Look at the dryness of the area. It is very dry.

Why so, we have a piece of Sahel here in Brazil.

And here in the street,

people leave for good.

Sometimes the land is so dry, so hard,

people migrate to cities in the south.

They give up, leave the land.

FARM SALGALO:

MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL

We have spent many years suffering a shortage of rain.

Here we had many cattle.

Now we have nothing, it's over.

The drought was great.

He finished with pastures, ended income.

How it ended, Grandpa? Why it's over?

It ended because of the drought.

He stood around, but no one saw or a grass grow.

Now we just have time.

Between your father and I,

20,000 invested in that.

Where you are?

Here he abounded all.

There were many birds many sparrows.

Canarios, tico-ticos,

zorzales ...

There on the hill, there was a good kill.

And in that summit also he had a very good head.

There is much erosion.

Now, for example, the land is bonded.

If rains come, there no grass, nothing,

to hold, cause a disaster.

I have no idea ...

to know how to stop erosion.

He grandfather, he was in the hacienda happy?

What?

If I was in this hacienda happy?

?Si was happy?

I was happy to have my children.

I raised all, seven women,

with six career as Tiao.

I raised my children here with difficulty.

I was happy.

Only wood I took over a hundred contos

to take my children to school.

All were raised with good nutrition

with good clothes.

Since I arrived in Brazil, the land of my grandfather have been.

Burned and dry.

When Sebastiao returned to the farm after traveling the northeast of Brazil,

the place had nothing to do with paradise he remembered as a child.

But he worried about something else.

The suffering he saw, changed.

His role as a photographer took on new meaning.

We understood how important it was for him to leave.

She missed him terribly, but I understood.

Sahel, THE END OF THE ROAD 1984-1986

For his next project, which would lead to Sahel in Africa,

Sebastiao began working with MSF.

I worked in Ethiopia in 1984.

And then I continued throughout the Sahel, 85 and 86.

Finally, spend nearly two years in a row in this region

doing a story about hunger.

There was a refugee camp,

the largest in the history of mankind so far.

I had a wild desire to show that.

To show that there was a large part of humanity

He is living in poverty.

Which it was mostly a problem of deals

not just a question of natural disasters.

It was a Coptic region

They are Christians in northern Ethiopia,

of tremendous humility.

They are unable, even with a child about to die,

to take the lead of others.

They prefer to wait.

Look at the state are.

In that state, one does not stand long.

In those fields hunger killed many lives.

Causes physical discomfort,

but other diseases that they kill.

If we take the anger, we become dehydrated quickly.

We can lose up to 12 liters of fluid a day due to diarrhea

and die in two or three days.

So young faces

and so aged by suffering.

If you look at the front, it is not elderly,

it has aged are the eyes, which are empty.

Look how young he is. Look at your baby.

He was her husband.

During the night because of the cold, many deaths they occur.

Dying here is like a continuation of life.

People get used to die.

A husband to his wife washed before burial.

With mountain clothes, dressed in goatskins.

A pretty young woman.

According to Coptic beliefs,

the body must be clean for the encounter with God.

It should be washed, wash it all

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