Portal de Cartagena
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Good evening
Let's be clear and let us put aside the protocol corseted, sure corsets that look better in the body the comparsistas or the drag-queen, who on Monday held their first contest.
Nobody is aware that I am the mayor, for some the coolest of Spain, which is always infinitely better than being the most corrupt in Spain.
So far so good.
As mayor I am I owe you an explanation, and the explanation I owe you I'm going to pay, saying the beloved Mayor Pepe Isbert doing in "Welcome Mr. Marshall".
They understand that being mayor and town crier could not resist saying these anthologies phrases, but in this case the quota needed me and you.
I was excited.
Well, let me explain.
I am the mayor and the town crier.
At first I have assumed that some cane going to give me these days, because it is tradition so, and because there is no God to remedy, especially in this pagan festival that knows no gods, moving hand or sugar the pill, quite the contrary, it is lavished on the homer and whack, albeit with the best of moods, respect and the most joyous melodies.
For the latter, as I say, I'm a preacher as you can see.
Speak first gives me an advantage that I can hardly resist: give a little cane I unto you.
And here I am, in the dilemma of whether or not kind to the carnival chirigoteros and other wildlife, in the faint hope that there'll be very hard on me in grateful reciprocity.
And as they say cowards has never written anything, and me, for better or worse, they have already written much, because some coward I have.
I mean.
As a result, whoever gives first gives twice.
In any case I hold to the letter of a pasodoble chirigotero and make my own,
"We have a very little one freedom, if we criticize who criticizes us" ...
That's why I'm here, head on, without bodyguards, without armor of Scipio or town Anibal, but with a tongue that cuts more than a falcata, and will be in all acts Carnival allow me busy schedule my team mayor me organizes team doubt that every day more than appreciate me, do not let me stop for a minute, though said by the way, I did not give them to them respite.
You I will have in the firing line in the final competition of jokes, always with a smile because after all, you, the citizens, are my bosses and my best critics, the ones who have the obligation and pleasure listen, when it is for the better and for less well when taking advantage of the rhyme, Inda you are given.
I like to define troupes and jokes as the only free press, which knows no political or business easements interests, speaking as it does the people.
The first because you are the coveted pages and centerfold of that scurrilous annual publication that leaves the air that at other times can not be seen, and the second because with courage, wit, critical thinking and art in abundance, you colmáis that publication that letter mode up articles of it, and where looking good sense you may be able to remove the mask, or balaclava, who live behind it, to public ridicule or Punic Cartagena that is almost the same.
You are the only free press.
That's my opinion, really.
They say it's very healthy to laugh at yourself, so I raised the possibility of self-cane me this proclamation, but upon reflection I saw unnecessary to look in the "mirror" because with wax and others will give me well served .
The only certainty is that so far I progress in the proclamation, without saying much is true, but enough to go releasing nerve and beginning to find a home among my friends of the carnival.
To all of you like to disguise, enjoy the party, friends, and this extraordinary Cartagena with that lady luck has blessed us, and me and Inda you are given.
Because I do not deny that any costume looks better on these streets than anywhere else in the world.
Do not be fooled, no carnival can be better than this, however much they try, because they are lucky enough to parade through the streets of Cartagena.
So when you go out with these costumes and accessories in which you have worked all year, in an effort that can never thank you enough, feel the pride of representing the Carnival of Cartagena, the three millennium old, because that alone can boast you, good, and some Cadiz.
Well, I have given you some soap, a question must in any proclamation that price, but I realize that I forgot a little something for the rally is complete.
Here I go.
It is only fair to acknowledge the great work performed by the Federation of Carnival, not only keeping alive this important holiday, but getting bigger and making more participatory year.
Only those that bear the burden of this task know the hours you devote, subtracting family, friends, leisure and rest.
And above all men, for that and for bringing so many years without protest, undertaker's uniform approved by the Federation, say that there was a time that seemed to them the burning of Don Carnal that La Call.
Therefore, thank you.
End of rally.
Nor is it good to abuse that you immediately come up and then down there who will.
Carnival is an art, but also an excuse.
It's actually an excuse to art to become for a few days in what we are not: fighters, nurses, doctors, vamp, dominatrix, submissive, singers, ninja turtles ... anything goes for esturrear the 'I fancy love that word as ours: It is-your-rre-ar-.
Because sometimes it's what we do in carnival esturrearnos, release the daily bonds in an attempt to remove the head and breathe, at least one poquico.
I ask that you mix up what you like and cheerful heart, that you esturreéis, which have quite the day.
It's funny that I'm asking someone disguised, when I spend my days trying to remove the costume they wear bad round.
For gangsters, white-collar thieves, rustlers trileros and there in Cartagena 365 days, and this year, because 2016 brings 366 days.
The shocking thing is that people dress well, Did I say good?
Inda and be given, respectable citizens, because they're past masters of disguise.
At least, they come as teachers.
Therefore I ask for help, you who are experts in the art of disguise, so that together we get not usurp the carnival, only time of year that apparently you're not, it may be acceptable and fun.
I can also try to get the guise of Super Lopez, but soon I will assert, because I'm not super anything, just one more Cartagena and also do not like to carry "braslis" out.
No body I presume superhero, is in sight, although I must tell you that dress lose much.
A touch of history does want to, but those things which were different from Carnival Cartagena, and also explain our way of being and understanding life.
We have chronic there was no better time to take to the streets.
It was expected throughout the year, with enthusiasm of eager mothers find a boyfriend to their marriageable daughters, and these, because at certain ages for the heads and hearts and haunted the desire to find a good man, so were busy making costumes for the masquerade balls.
The whole city was altered in one way or another, to working life, limited working hours at Arsenal 7 am to 3 pm.
It was staged with the entrance through the gates of Madrid and San Jose, after the mandatory side of masquerades beginning to disrupt the regular pulse of the city.
They have until we got many requests for the competent authority to take measures to avoid the scandals that happened in "some places on Main Street", unfit at the discretion of some neighbors of the time, in a town the size of Cartagena.
Today, the children of these censors are still telling us about good ways to hide their bad funds.
Apparently the bustle and high population density in the main street to lavish "pinching, patting and other excesses" took advantage, come on, that could plundering chub.
It was a carnal carnival with a major component, with street musicians and bands themselves, but without neglecting the other desires to vent, always with respect, and sometimes even without it, as we read in historical documents.
Even then he had a clear interest in taming the Carnival simple people do denostándolo to go through a degrading spectacle, while carnival potentiated the upper classes, with their delicate dance in luxury lounges.
I remember in my childhood, visiting my elderly neighbor house Cruz, unmarried daughter of the former speaker of House of Spirits Bardinet, and kept as treasures retracted to dictatorship, photos, costumes, feathers, and even eggs from which way home were filled with confetti to throw from the balconies.
I remember with nostalgia, longing oozing Cruz teardrop from his eyes, when his memories were flying at that stage of his youth, and the gesture inferred goodness of their experience and thus the Carnival itself.
And then came the Franco regime, and everything was reduced to nothing.
And as everything has an end, but some things we may crave eternal, the dictatorship ended and with the arrival of democracy returned Carnival which you have learned back to the actual history of Cartagena.
There you go again to Cartagena starting from zero, or minus 40 as is the case, but enough for groups few years our Carnival was first class, while our competition is considered Chirigotas regional level.
Fortunately, in that still endure, but we do not trust, that seeing parody with which every day we punish San Esteban, every day the competition moved to the Regional Auditorium, but not pay them allowances.
Carnival's friends began to gather, to cluster Troupes and Chirigotas, shifting dance, color and festivity to the streets around, doing other notaries with letters and rhymes that are hung in the streets of our city to be sung.
Here I make myself stronger, or the opposite, because remembering the good moments lived with my fellow maromos and other mythical jokes that still presented the competition, I can not retain the serenity and tongue.
Because that the jokes, to have humor, sarcastically, mischievously and freely, engage what happened in the social and political landscape during the annual cycle between competitions, singing with love and kindness of our land, our history and our people, because the chirigoteros not fit into the bowels us the lies that others keep, or heart so our love.
"San Anton, Los Barreros, La Isla, Peral Barrio, who cares just want eyes for inspiration and to sing, and if you top put mixed drinks, cool stop now, and that is when we get to the heart of any feelings do song".
The jokes are not alien to link their types or costumes, with events occurring in our city, with its ephemeris put in value from the stage of the Teatro Circo.
I remember the type of the Graduate School students who took the Singuangos, so we could all be proud of being pioneers in Spain with that of the universal and formal education, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 23 F or the Tribute to the Heroes of Cavite the maromos, when mimicked spectacular monument.
People and characters of our beloved Cartagena also go down in history clinging to those letters, the Lotero Antonio, the potty or the legendary and beloved Charito, who was among others a pasodoble and tanguillo of this carnival and many other users are saying they have made in heaven.
Complaint policy has been and all, as in life, loose, warm and others so crazy that in addition to bringing political carnival, the carnival take to politics, will remember a singing slogan:
"For the sake of Cartagena Pilar dear, do not go do not go, do not go to stay."
And he did not stay.
Localism and Murcia are quarrels with curds our letters, all with quite right, as the reason must come from beyond Chain contestants win contests and prizes, we all want to see and hear the best on stage and whether paprika is good, what it is albeit in Murcia.
But I can not trust that one thing is fairness and lose sight of another, remember:
"Within four days we have here the summer,
And to the Mar Menor is full of jellyfish and Murcia,
Jellyfish sting you, you bleed Murcia,
and none can see because they are under water,
and although they put networks or port chain,
there is always a hijopuque, for you cast is broken. "
So far my speech, enjoy the songs, parades and dances, the costumes and floats, the streets of Cartagena and even meat, before it reaches Doña Lent.
And remember: You are necessary, the preacher is only contingent.
Just one more thing, I pass it well "And Inda be given".
Source: Movimiento Ciudadano
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