I just read uncertain Destinations from writer David Eli Salazar pasqueño . The first thing that comes to mind is that set of characters whose only common point is the overwhelming desire to survive. These tales of mining issue, arguably even social issues to make it more comprehensive. But in my memory is above all the yearning of the characters survive. Because people live on their farms and small-scale mining, and suddenly comes development, the large mining, and life is falling apart for all but the new owners. The hills hit
open pit lakes and rivers polluted, children and adults with lead and sulfur in the blood, etc., are death sentences to the total indifference of our society. Difficult to read the book without feeling the anguish of being part of a sick society and mutilating.
A lack of honest historians and journalists, the literature makes history, becomes chronic and perhaps living in guiding the reality of our country. So the stories suffer in literary autonomy, but rise as alternatives to our shortcomings in disciplines that would be really valuable sites and reflection.
A book in which even the hill takes skill to rebuke the "open cut" by the breaking of his heart. One becomes convinced, more than it already is convinced that mining has been, is and always will be a hunting and ethnocidal. Mining bad for a country like Peru.
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