Almost thirty years as a journalist and columnist in print media. Program Guide tireless travel time was eleven in December and has shown at least 300 destinations in our country, Rafo León is above all a connoisseur of Peru, its roads, its shortcomings and its benefits. In this interview he talks about his experiences, anecdotes and opinions. Those that only the watchful eye of a traveler may notice.
By Maria Isabel Gonzales
"No one travels to a place but to an experience." For Rafo Leon that is the rule before you start a route. This 60-year-old Lima has traveled much of Peru and still not get tired of admiring it says that to enjoy a trip there to stop being yourself and being willing to adventure. Is your philosophy and if the rest do not agree "should ask themselves what travel: just to take pictures and show to friends?". Like any good traveler, he has in mind recommendations for the coming months. "You have to pack to the north and in this rainy season is very difficult to travel to the mountains or the jungle. Although if someone wants to venture, may also be a unique experience. "
If someone is concerned about repeat destinations, Rafo has a theory: you can go back ten times to a place and experiences that will always become something new. "I record a program in Trujillo in huacas. What could be more cliché? And yet it has been very interesting. In the Temple of the Moon recorded the museum, which had not ever recorded, and Chan Chan, instead on focusing on the archaeological highlights its aesthetic side. To this we add something mystical moche ritual purification. Did you see? Turn it into something unique. "
Travel Time
- How to choose the destiny of your program?
-At the beginning there was silver and had to make do small. We were where we were hosts; could be a family of Huanta as well as a company. But now is different. For example, at a time I was interested in places where water is born, say the contrast between that and mining. Now I want to take a shamanic mystical approach to the points we visited. In general, the fate is decided in a team discussion.
- Is there a place I always come back?
-my father's family is northern and so I'm tied to the dry forest area. I'm passionate about again, the smell of palo santo, hualtaco, firewood and people. Especially the power of women.
- What is the worst absence of a traveler?
-Del travelers in general, be looking for the exotic, the landscape just to the photo. Of Peru, which is racist and that treats people as if working in his field. Meanness; not want to pay for services they would pay in another country happy. Go to a town to take the services of a healer and want hot shower for bathing and complain of dust.
- What changes do you see inside the country since you began to travel?
-Accessibility. The more inter-oceanic highway concessions to the American. When all is finished we will have a privileged tourism in Latin America. But now, if you go Urcos-in-Cusco to Puerto Maldonado, you can take 18 hours. Before truckers took up to two months. And there are negative things and in Cusco, which has become a kind of Disney. Poses people dressed in their traditional dress to have their pictures taken with tourists and remain as poor as ever.
places and people
The reception received by the traveler, says Rafo, depend on the region it comes. "In Cusco and Puno is a standard. In the latter city, for example, it has become fashionable experiential tourism: take you to the islands, you are in a very cliché, take you dancing, you get potatoes, and you look at the paisajito it is. " But there are other places like the jungle where people are resisting that. "The jungle is more attached to their land. It is transparent, not disguised. He says, if you want to know come with me to find medicinal herbs in the forest to hunt or accompany me. " And in the north people are very cool, "says Rafo," knows that the food they get to pocket any. His attention Trujillo, Lambayeque and Casma, places that make him the great Moche archaeological project. Notes that young people know of his past. Up the facades of the houses are decorated with the iconography of his grandparents. "
But who remembers most are the fishermen of our southern coast. "Once a teacher at a school in Puerto Lomas, Arequipa, told me that fishermen's children were born in another way. Do not cheat, do not be manipulated, are strong, they argue, are united and lively. In short, extraordinary people. "
- What is being wasted?
-The characters in each location. I've met amazing people, delivered to your region, who knows local culture, history, ecology and published poems, legends. And yet they are completely wasted capital. Connect and use them for cultural promotion of their cities should be priority for the Ministry of Culture. See that picture on the wall? Don Pedro Azabache painted it, the last Indian painter in Peru. He lives in the Moche Valley and has over 80 years. The day I die, Don Pedro, all their knowledge will go with him, and there is still untapped. Another example was a trip we made to Incahuasi, a village in the Sierra de Lambayeque. Before going I had researched musical instruments is already extinct, and one of them was the shawm of Arab origin. And in this town in the festivities of the Virgen de Las Mercedes dropped two community playing hornpipes. All I can do to preserve it is recorded.
- The bad and good in your travels?
-Landfill at the entrances of cities, especially in the north, from Huarmey to Tumbes. There's one explanation that I thought, and is that in addition to not paying taxes, I believe that in the peripheral areas of northern cities people are not sure if you live in the city or the countryside. Governance and there is also lack a lot of ignorance. Good examples are Moquegua and Chachapoyas, cities where participatory budgeting work. There is a notion of development with conservation and not let up monuments delirious steal. And in Arequipa is given a very interesting thing: despite its problems, not lost his appreciation for what, recover space, have developed a local culture. As I sometimes say, northern Peru is in Arequipa. On the political
-Alan Garcia says this is the best government since the return to democracy. What do you remember the first of their mandates?
"The feeling was of terminal disaster, not only by Garcia but also terrorism. Gaps, corruption and cynicism. I remember
awareness of the political moment that we lived when a November 21, my birthday, I got up and opened the shower pipe. Poop left because they had crossed the lines of The Atarjea. We spent 48 hours with poop on shower because someone had stolen the money to arrange connections. In this government, Garcia has not imported anything. Private investment has been imposed to eliminate mining consulting the local population. It dispenses with all the measures against global warming. What I think is that governance will be in serious trouble if not taken into consideration the population. Example: Bagua.
- Do you have sympathy for Alejandro Toledo? Before
-yes, and now it's an ambivalent feeling. I think that, like Garcia, is really into the liberal model, but I think it would set aside Toledo environmental protection, the fight against poverty, the issue of indigenous children. Alan García issues that you care a damn.
- What does the candidate of APRA, Mercedes Araoz?
"I met her when I was an academic. Always with good reputation: serious, rigorous, close to the weakest. But I think I had one side of vanity and self-promotion which I now overwhelmed.
- And Luis Castaneda Lossio?
"Typical Peruvian criollo discovered that he had political flow, but without vision is a mediocre city and less of a country. Believes that the efficiency of a system of tolls can be president.
- Ollanta Humala?
"It makes sense that has been released.
- Keiko Fujimori?
"is a person of that last category, and belongs to the tribe he belongs, has nothing itself. It brings together people who had a role in the government of his father and tries to whiten. That is immoral.
- Pedro Pablo Kuczynski What?
"It got to talk to people who otherwise would not have done. But he has surrounded himself with people that will not be able to achieve anything long term. It is a great lobbyist for gringos, but not cholos.
"After so many trips, what idea have in Peru?
"I liken it to a teenager from the countryside who goes to bed every night tired and depressed all day thinking that has to do the same. Suddenly you wake up in the morning with an erection acne and huge and asks what I do with this? Acne can go from being a passing phenomenon to a permanent one if neglected, and the erection may become a wonder of relationship with someone or an act of violence and isolation. So I see it as the awakening of a teenager who does not know where to go and less what to do with that energy.
Profile
• Name: Rafael León Rodríguez
• Birth: Lima, November 21, 1950.
• Education: studied Literature and Linguistics at the PUCP.
• Career: over 30 years as a journalist, critic and columnist in print media. The creator of characters like Cain and Abel, José del Salto Cadbury and China Tudela Loveday.
• Publications: China Tudela: Anthology of his chronicles, secret routes in Peru. The secret by-ways of Peru, La China Tudela and real panaca, dog travel. Chronicle of crossings by mistake and Guide of Arequipa. For eleven years leads and directs the program travel time.
Husband, father and grandfather
• Rafo León lives on the second floor of a building Miraflores. To receive your guests waiting in the hallway, greet and open the door of an apartment. "Would you rather we get into this o. ..?", and to the surprise of one opens the door to the apartment next door," because we may be here. " The explanation, he says, is that he and his wife, Pilar Cantella, need much room to work. Could not afford a big apartment and took two. "Works great. We have space to be together and also so that each one works alone. " • A Pilar
met her in Piura as children. "We played in college carnivals and we meet. Since then we are together. " And are 38 years of marriage, two sons, Bernard and Adriana, and four grandchildren.
• According Rafo, which provided input as a parent to Adriana, journalist, and Bernardo, manager of the brewers, was inherited from his mother. "I made my way to pass the page to things that life brings and that are hard but can not stop. If something serious happens, you accept it and get over it. With humor, which is a defense and a weapon to learn and move forward. " And if you ask for a default, do not hesitate to say it is too immature. "I am driven by my emotions and sometimes do not think about the rest."
• But if there is something stressing his hand on his chest and his eyes on the look of your partner is not considered a bad person. "I figure if I have harmed someone has been involuntarily, but do not hate anyone and I have feelings poisoned."
By Maria Isabel Gonzales
"No one travels to a place but to an experience." For Rafo Leon that is the rule before you start a route. This 60-year-old Lima has traveled much of Peru and still not get tired of admiring it says that to enjoy a trip there to stop being yourself and being willing to adventure. Is your philosophy and if the rest do not agree "should ask themselves what travel: just to take pictures and show to friends?". Like any good traveler, he has in mind recommendations for the coming months. "You have to pack to the north and in this rainy season is very difficult to travel to the mountains or the jungle. Although if someone wants to venture, may also be a unique experience. "
If someone is concerned about repeat destinations, Rafo has a theory: you can go back ten times to a place and experiences that will always become something new. "I record a program in Trujillo in huacas. What could be more cliché? And yet it has been very interesting. In the Temple of the Moon recorded the museum, which had not ever recorded, and Chan Chan, instead on focusing on the archaeological highlights its aesthetic side. To this we add something mystical moche ritual purification. Did you see? Turn it into something unique. "
Travel Time
- How to choose the destiny of your program?
-At the beginning there was silver and had to make do small. We were where we were hosts; could be a family of Huanta as well as a company. But now is different. For example, at a time I was interested in places where water is born, say the contrast between that and mining. Now I want to take a shamanic mystical approach to the points we visited. In general, the fate is decided in a team discussion.
- Is there a place I always come back?
-my father's family is northern and so I'm tied to the dry forest area. I'm passionate about again, the smell of palo santo, hualtaco, firewood and people. Especially the power of women.
- What is the worst absence of a traveler?
-Del travelers in general, be looking for the exotic, the landscape just to the photo. Of Peru, which is racist and that treats people as if working in his field. Meanness; not want to pay for services they would pay in another country happy. Go to a town to take the services of a healer and want hot shower for bathing and complain of dust.
- What changes do you see inside the country since you began to travel?
-Accessibility. The more inter-oceanic highway concessions to the American. When all is finished we will have a privileged tourism in Latin America. But now, if you go Urcos-in-Cusco to Puerto Maldonado, you can take 18 hours. Before truckers took up to two months. And there are negative things and in Cusco, which has become a kind of Disney. Poses people dressed in their traditional dress to have their pictures taken with tourists and remain as poor as ever.
places and people
The reception received by the traveler, says Rafo, depend on the region it comes. "In Cusco and Puno is a standard. In the latter city, for example, it has become fashionable experiential tourism: take you to the islands, you are in a very cliché, take you dancing, you get potatoes, and you look at the paisajito it is. " But there are other places like the jungle where people are resisting that. "The jungle is more attached to their land. It is transparent, not disguised. He says, if you want to know come with me to find medicinal herbs in the forest to hunt or accompany me. " And in the north people are very cool, "says Rafo," knows that the food they get to pocket any. His attention Trujillo, Lambayeque and Casma, places that make him the great Moche archaeological project. Notes that young people know of his past. Up the facades of the houses are decorated with the iconography of his grandparents. "
But who remembers most are the fishermen of our southern coast. "Once a teacher at a school in Puerto Lomas, Arequipa, told me that fishermen's children were born in another way. Do not cheat, do not be manipulated, are strong, they argue, are united and lively. In short, extraordinary people. "
- What is being wasted?
-The characters in each location. I've met amazing people, delivered to your region, who knows local culture, history, ecology and published poems, legends. And yet they are completely wasted capital. Connect and use them for cultural promotion of their cities should be priority for the Ministry of Culture. See that picture on the wall? Don Pedro Azabache painted it, the last Indian painter in Peru. He lives in the Moche Valley and has over 80 years. The day I die, Don Pedro, all their knowledge will go with him, and there is still untapped. Another example was a trip we made to Incahuasi, a village in the Sierra de Lambayeque. Before going I had researched musical instruments is already extinct, and one of them was the shawm of Arab origin. And in this town in the festivities of the Virgen de Las Mercedes dropped two community playing hornpipes. All I can do to preserve it is recorded.
- The bad and good in your travels?
-Landfill at the entrances of cities, especially in the north, from Huarmey to Tumbes. There's one explanation that I thought, and is that in addition to not paying taxes, I believe that in the peripheral areas of northern cities people are not sure if you live in the city or the countryside. Governance and there is also lack a lot of ignorance. Good examples are Moquegua and Chachapoyas, cities where participatory budgeting work. There is a notion of development with conservation and not let up monuments delirious steal. And in Arequipa is given a very interesting thing: despite its problems, not lost his appreciation for what, recover space, have developed a local culture. As I sometimes say, northern Peru is in Arequipa. On the political
-Alan Garcia says this is the best government since the return to democracy. What do you remember the first of their mandates?
"The feeling was of terminal disaster, not only by Garcia but also terrorism. Gaps, corruption and cynicism. I remember
awareness of the political moment that we lived when a November 21, my birthday, I got up and opened the shower pipe. Poop left because they had crossed the lines of The Atarjea. We spent 48 hours with poop on shower because someone had stolen the money to arrange connections. In this government, Garcia has not imported anything. Private investment has been imposed to eliminate mining consulting the local population. It dispenses with all the measures against global warming. What I think is that governance will be in serious trouble if not taken into consideration the population. Example: Bagua.
- Do you have sympathy for Alejandro Toledo? Before
-yes, and now it's an ambivalent feeling. I think that, like Garcia, is really into the liberal model, but I think it would set aside Toledo environmental protection, the fight against poverty, the issue of indigenous children. Alan García issues that you care a damn.
- What does the candidate of APRA, Mercedes Araoz?
"I met her when I was an academic. Always with good reputation: serious, rigorous, close to the weakest. But I think I had one side of vanity and self-promotion which I now overwhelmed.
- And Luis Castaneda Lossio?
"Typical Peruvian criollo discovered that he had political flow, but without vision is a mediocre city and less of a country. Believes that the efficiency of a system of tolls can be president.
- Ollanta Humala?
"It makes sense that has been released.
- Keiko Fujimori?
"is a person of that last category, and belongs to the tribe he belongs, has nothing itself. It brings together people who had a role in the government of his father and tries to whiten. That is immoral.
- Pedro Pablo Kuczynski What?
"It got to talk to people who otherwise would not have done. But he has surrounded himself with people that will not be able to achieve anything long term. It is a great lobbyist for gringos, but not cholos.
"After so many trips, what idea have in Peru?
"I liken it to a teenager from the countryside who goes to bed every night tired and depressed all day thinking that has to do the same. Suddenly you wake up in the morning with an erection acne and huge and asks what I do with this? Acne can go from being a passing phenomenon to a permanent one if neglected, and the erection may become a wonder of relationship with someone or an act of violence and isolation. So I see it as the awakening of a teenager who does not know where to go and less what to do with that energy.
Profile
• Name: Rafael León Rodríguez
• Birth: Lima, November 21, 1950.
• Education: studied Literature and Linguistics at the PUCP.
• Career: over 30 years as a journalist, critic and columnist in print media. The creator of characters like Cain and Abel, José del Salto Cadbury and China Tudela Loveday.
• Publications: China Tudela: Anthology of his chronicles, secret routes in Peru. The secret by-ways of Peru, La China Tudela and real panaca, dog travel. Chronicle of crossings by mistake and Guide of Arequipa. For eleven years leads and directs the program travel time.
Husband, father and grandfather
• Rafo León lives on the second floor of a building Miraflores. To receive your guests waiting in the hallway, greet and open the door of an apartment. "Would you rather we get into this o. ..?", and to the surprise of one opens the door to the apartment next door," because we may be here. " The explanation, he says, is that he and his wife, Pilar Cantella, need much room to work. Could not afford a big apartment and took two. "Works great. We have space to be together and also so that each one works alone. " • A Pilar
met her in Piura as children. "We played in college carnivals and we meet. Since then we are together. " And are 38 years of marriage, two sons, Bernard and Adriana, and four grandchildren.
• According Rafo, which provided input as a parent to Adriana, journalist, and Bernardo, manager of the brewers, was inherited from his mother. "I made my way to pass the page to things that life brings and that are hard but can not stop. If something serious happens, you accept it and get over it. With humor, which is a defense and a weapon to learn and move forward. " And if you ask for a default, do not hesitate to say it is too immature. "I am driven by my emotions and sometimes do not think about the rest."
• But if there is something stressing his hand on his chest and his eyes on the look of your partner is not considered a bad person. "I figure if I have harmed someone has been involuntarily, but do not hate anyone and I have feelings poisoned."
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